tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post1060331557978604667..comments2024-03-22T21:58:18.933+00:00Comments on ShukerNature: DUNG-HEAPS, DEVIL-PIGS, AND MONCKTON'S GAZEKAAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15628598508836601012noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-12430966684661449622022-12-24T17:17:20.062+00:002022-12-24T17:17:20.062+00:00Yes it does. Cloven refers to something that has b...Yes it does. Cloven refers to something that has been cleft or split into two sections, thus resembling the two front hooves of even-toed ungulates.Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-44677514137784592832022-12-24T04:33:57.449+00:002022-12-24T04:33:57.449+00:00Excuse me, sir. I want to ask if the two words &qu...Excuse me, sir. I want to ask if the two words "cloven-footed animals" and "even-toed animals"(Artiodactyla) mean the same thing? I found it in reading the description of Devil Pig in Moncton's book, because English is not my native language, so I don't knowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-8426409656745865862017-06-14T05:55:29.594+01:002017-06-14T05:55:29.594+01:00In 1973-74 I was studying the fauna of the Papua N...In 1973-74 I was studying the fauna of the Papua New Guinean rainforest with biologists at the Wau Ecology Institute, a field station of the Bishop Museum of Hawaii. Over a one-year period I recorded fauna species, primarily birds, and their behaviour, with an ornithologist / botanist Thane Pratt on the slopes of Mount Missim in undisturbed Castanopsis Oak rainforest at Poverty Creek, at an elevation of 1500 metres (4,921 feet). We had particularly specialized in the identification of fauna from their calls as is normal with birds in dense rainforest & it took us many months to track down the last of the birds known to us, the Black-billed Sicklebill / Buff-tailed Sicklebill Bird of Paradise (Epimachus albertisi) & Thane and I were the first naturalists to ever record the male's inverted display. <br /><br />On 6, 14 and 19 December 1973 and on 16 and 25 October 1974 we heard during daylight, very loud and powerful mammal calls. These consisted of a series of deep, base notes repeated without variations over a period of 5 seconds that produced a bellowing-roar clearly audible through the rainforest from perhaps a kilometre (0.6 miles) away. At one instance I was standing on a rock outcrop above the trees and clearly heard the calls emanating from a forested valley approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) below me. <br /><br />Spendour in the Foresthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14321465243997497180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-69817154648760961792014-08-23T20:47:33.000+01:002014-08-23T20:47:33.000+01:00Thanks!Thanks!Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-38732373790417479302014-08-23T20:47:17.447+01:002014-08-23T20:47:17.447+01:00I include some info on giant mystery monitors in N...I include some info on giant mystery monitors in New Guinea, the so-called Papuan dragon or artrellia, in a previous ShukerNature post: http://karlshuker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/nandi-bears-and-death-birds-my-top-ten.htmlDr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-26169822098988885872014-08-23T20:44:35.860+01:002014-08-23T20:44:35.860+01:00This is a good point. However, the 'cloven fee...This is a good point. However, the 'cloven feet' description did not come from any zoologically-trained eyewitness, so we cannot be sure whether or not this term was merely applied to the eyewitness's description by a chronicler or even whether it had been used in error by one of the eyewitnesses. (Personally, I doubt that Ogi, for instance, would have used such a term, especially as he was so frightened by his sighting that he could barely speak at all afterwards when found.)Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-32751707907508646972014-08-23T14:02:00.673+01:002014-08-23T14:02:00.673+01:00Whither went the clover feet and footprints, so sa...Whither went the clover feet and footprints, so salient to Oina and Ogi's beast's porcine nature, once the palorchestid identity had been proposed?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05990564432778690216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-30677034523577161552014-08-23T13:35:45.062+01:002014-08-23T13:35:45.062+01:00Excellent article :)Excellent article :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01970375714247432455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-7382447780754962822014-08-23T05:21:07.597+01:002014-08-23T05:21:07.597+01:00Charles "Cannibal" Miller and his wife w...Charles "Cannibal" Miller and his wife wrote several books concerning their explorations of New Guinea and Borneo during the 1930s, and they claimed they had discovered a large dinosaur-like reptile in the highland interior of New Guinea. While his accounts have often been scoffed at, there continues to be the occasional report of similar creatures, perhaps giant monitor lizards. If there was a place where a dinosaur could perhaps live today, I would think it would be in these jungles. Have you any further information on this?Olrikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14519546544726111480noreply@blogger.com