tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post122208505868863817..comments2024-03-22T21:58:18.933+00:00Comments on ShukerNature: WHEN THE MAMMOTHS CAME TO TOWNAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15628598508836601012noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-61189830966277267332022-01-08T19:13:55.423+00:002022-01-08T19:13:55.423+00:00Thanks for your interest in my books Andrew! Dr Co...Thanks for your interest in my books Andrew! Dr Coope's son Robert and I were friends when we were at university together a very very long time ago now. He was studying pine martens in Scotland. Glad you enjoyed my article!Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-24958834737407525292022-01-08T16:10:33.094+00:002022-01-08T16:10:33.094+00:00Wow just stumbled across this. I was in my first y...Wow just stumbled across this. I was in my first year of Geological Sciences at Birmingham University and Dr Coope was my tutor. A brilliant scientist and great character. He organised for the whole class to come along and help with the excavations. I have some photos somewhere on the pc. I'll never forget it but the years have made some of my memories cloudy with what happened to the remains after they were taken away. Thank you so much for this blog post Karl (incidentally I've got a fair few of your books and Dr Coope used to have a copy of in the Wake of Sea Serpents in his office). Kind regards Andrew OliverAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11342362177339946854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-131263419190065372015-10-04T20:42:21.443+01:002015-10-04T20:42:21.443+01:00I was at raf costford seen the mammoth there with ...I was at raf costford seen the mammoth there with blue peter presenter mark curry Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03004249005223836800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-12594654829361982122012-07-30T08:17:36.642+01:002012-07-30T08:17:36.642+01:00Wonderful blog & good post.Its really helpful ...Wonderful blog & good post.Its really helpful for me, awaiting for more new post. Keep Blogging!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.zlconstruction.com/" rel="nofollow">Excavation Companies</a>kumarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09891871163773120558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-45674479560975887992011-07-30T17:23:47.363+01:002011-07-30T17:23:47.363+01:00Nice post.
Could you include something on mammoth...Nice post.<br /><br />Could you include something on mammoths in "Still In Search of Prehistoric Survivors?" Many fans would appreciate it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-11529683419412412752011-07-10T21:46:17.815+01:002011-07-10T21:46:17.815+01:00I have loved the "living mammoth" idea e...I have loved the "living mammoth" idea ever since reading Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates (the characters ride a mammoth to Snow Monkey Island after the gondola runs out of fuel). I hope that there are mammoths! I don't personally love the idea of cloning one, due to all the ethics and stuff. Elephants are extremely intelligent creatures, and so were mammoths. It brings about the same questions as cloning people, dolphins and chimps. So if we want to see a mammoth, it would be best if the mammoth survived on it's own. Of course, there is also the idea of thawing a frozen one out of the ice, but I somehow doubt that is feasible...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-55057679522373404162011-05-30T02:15:49.265+01:002011-05-30T02:15:49.265+01:00Whoah! That is a long list! I wonder if there ARE ...Whoah! That is a long list! I wonder if there ARE living mammoths!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-20151212336873942862011-05-21T19:59:07.613+01:002011-05-21T19:59:07.613+01:00A Russian hunter named M. L. Gallon claimed to hav...A Russian hunter named M. L. Gallon claimed to have seen a pair of mammoths in 1918. This account is in his own words:<br /><br />"In the second year I was exploring the taiga, I was very much struck to notice the tracks of a huge animal, I say huge tracks, for they were a long way larger than any of those I had often seen of animals I knew well. It wasn't freezing yet, the snow had melted, and there were thick layers of mud in the clearings. It was in one of these big clearings that I was staggered to see huge footprints pressed deep into the mud. There were four tracks, the tracks of four feet, the first two about 4 m from the second pair, which were a little bigger in size. Then the tracks suddenly turned east and went into the forest of middling-sized elms.<br /><br />I followed the track for days and days. Sometimes I could see were the animal had stopped at some grassy clearing and then gone on forever eastwards. Then, one day I saw another track, almost exactly the same. It came from the north and crossed the first one. It looked to me as if they had trampled about all over the place for several hundred m as if they had been excited or upset by their meeting. Then the two animals set out marching eastward one following some 20 m behind the other, both tracks mingling and plowing up the earth together. I followed them for days and days thinking that perhaps I should never see them, and also a bit afraid, for indeed I didn't feel I was big enough to face such beasts alone. One afternoon it was clear enough from the tracks that the animals weren't far off. The wind was in my face, which was good for approaching them without them knowing I was there. All of a sudden I saw one of the animals quite clearly, and now I must admit I really was afraid. It had stopped among some young saplings. It was a huge elephant with big white tusks, very curved; it was a dark chestnut colour as far as I could see.. It had fairly long hair on the hindquarters but it seemed much shorter on the front. I must say I had no idea that there were such big elephants. It had huge legs and moved very slowly. I've only seen elephants in pictures, but I must say that even from this distance I could never have believed any beast could be so big. The second beast was around, I saw it only a few times among the trees: it seemed to be the same size.<br /><br />An extraordinary account, doubtless!<br /><br />But it isn't just mammoths-it might be mastodons too! "The Portland Press publishes a long conversation with Col. C.F. Fowler, late of the Alaskan Fur and Commercial company, in which he gives very clear evidence that in the interior of Alaska many mastodons still survive. He first discovered among some "fossil" ivory collected by the natives two tusks which showed evidence of being recently taken from the animal which carried them. On questioning the native who sold it to him he was surprised to receive a full description of the immense beast which had been killed by the natives, a description fully identifying the animal with the mastodon. Col. Fowler quotes Gov. Swineford, of Alaska, as having also investigated this matter and as being satisfied that on the high plateaus of that country large herds of mastodons still roam unmolested by the natives, who fear them greatly. The Alaska News also admits that the evidence of their existence is too strong to be denied." <br /><br />I hope this data is useful!<br /><br />Modified from Thursday, May 20, 2010<br />LINDSAY SELBY: Tales of Living Mammoths <br />http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2010/05/lindsay-selby-tales-of-living-mammoths.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-43816767153010328632011-05-21T19:45:17.766+01:002011-05-21T19:45:17.766+01:00Anonymous above, that's a good question. Wish ...Anonymous above, that's a good question. Wish I knew the answer, but heres som info so you can decide for yourself:<br /><br />In the 1580s the Stroganoff family sent a band of Cossacks to hunt down a group of bandits in Siberia that had been stealing from their mines there. The leader of the expedition, Yermak Timofeyevitch, reported that beyond the Ural Mountains he met a "large, hairy elephant." The natives told him that the Kingdom of Sibir considered the giant animals a part of its wealth; they were valued as food and called "mountains of meat".<br /><br />In 1873 an article appeared in the Zoologist containing an interview with Cheriton Batchmatchnik, a Russian convict who escaped from Siberia and claimed to have encountered living mammoths in a valley of the Aldan mountains.<br /><br />Batchmatchnik had been convicted of smuggling and had been to the mines of Nartchinsk, Siberia. He escaped and travelled southwards, heading for the Amur river in the hope of reaching China. He ran into a band of Cossacks so he turned north and got to the gorges of the Aldan mountains when winter arrived. Following herds of migrating animals, he hoped to find shelter. Instead he claimed he found a hidden valley, hemmed in by cliffs on all sides and he descended to find the valley to be warm and fertile. There was a lake so he made camp beside it and lit a fire. When night fell some huge animals approached, attracted by the fire. Frightened, Batchmatchnik fired his pistol into the dark, causing a stampede. Come daylight he discovered large tracks and a well worn track leading to the water. He looked for somewhere safer to shelter and found a cave. He said when he entered the cave there was a full grown mammoth already in residence. He described the animal as 12 feet (4 metres) tall and 18 feet (6 metres) long. It was covered in reddish wool and black hair. The curving tusks were about 10 feet (3 metres) long.<br /><br />In the coming days Batchmatchnik saw about twenty mammoths in the valley. All were adults and he saw no calves. They were peaceable animals who were never aggressive to him and indeed took little notice of him. <br /><br />Batchmatchnik eventually left the valley and found his way back it civilisation, and on his return the Russian officials seemed to believe his story as they pardoned Batchmatchnik due to his 'services to science.'<br /><br />TO BE CONTINUED IN NEXT POST<br /><br />Modified from Thursday, May 20, 2010<br />LINDSAY SELBY: Tales of Living Mammoths <br />http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2010/05/lindsay-selby-tales-of-living-mammoths.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-32127408622030592612011-03-26T17:28:33.786+00:002011-03-26T17:28:33.786+00:00Interesting. You must have gotten good reviews if ...Interesting. You must have gotten good reviews if you want to republish it. Anyway, how good do you think the chances are of a living mammoth population are?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-49806659648919668012011-03-23T00:56:02.877+00:002011-03-23T00:56:02.877+00:00It was entitled In Search of Prehistoric Survivors...It was entitled In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, and was first published in 1995, but I'm currently updating it very appreciably for republication at a later date.Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-79251010615889687362011-03-22T21:20:47.782+00:002011-03-22T21:20:47.782+00:00You know, when I first saw this article, I thought...You know, when I first saw this article, I thought it was referring to the LIVING mammoths reported from Siberia, but I suppose you have mentioned this intriguing cryptozoological possibility elsewhere, like your book "In Search of Extinct Animals". At least I think that's the title.<br /><br />Anyway, interesting read. Oh, and on mammoth cloning. Did you know that they have recently mapped the woolly mammoth genome?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com