CRYPTO 1992

Cryptophl'dion annamense, a New Qenus and ,Species of Cryptozoic, Snake from Vie,tnam (Reptilia: Serpentes) .........Van Wallach and Gwilym S. Jones

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(REPTILIA: SERPENTES) VAN WALLACH AND GWILYM S. }ONES Center for Vertebrate Studies, Department of Biology, Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts 021 1 5, U. S.A. EDITORIAL BOARD

VAN WALLACH AND GWILYM S. }ONES Center for Vertebrate Studies, Department of Biology, Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts 021 1 5, U. S.A. EDITORIAL BOARD Troy L. Best

Center for Vertebrate Studies, Department of Biology, Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts 021 1 5, U. S.A. EDITORIAL BOARD Troy L. Best ( mammalogy)

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like the underground environment. However, truly subterranean or fossorial species are the most difficult types of snakes to find and collect, and are the most poorly represented ecological group in museum collections. Southeast Asia in general, and Vietnam in particular, are geographic regions that

In attempting to determine the affinities of this snake, a search was made to identify the family and genus to which it belongs. As it is obviously a burrower, a comparison was made with all secretive snake genera - initially from Southeast Asia, but subsequently throughout the world - that exhibite

The senior author wishes to thank the curators and staff of the numerous museums and librairies that have been visited to collect data and literature on snakes. Prominent among these are J. P. Rosado and E. E. Williams (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge), H. Marx, R. F. In

Natural History Museum, National Higher University of San Marcos, ABSTRACT: Following the cryptozoological method, the author has uncovered evidence in the tropical forests of Peru of the possible existence of several large mammal forms that are unknown to zoology. Most of the information presented

Cryptid description. The isnachi appears to be a large monkey, about twice the body-size of the common spider monkey, Ateles paniscus. (This cryptid is known by different native names in different parts of Peru; isnachi is a Quechua name which I use generically in this paper.) It is reportedly very

of most men, and its thighs are nearly as big as those of most men. It has a short, thick tail, about 6 inches ( 1 5 em) long. It is covered with short, thick, black hair similar to that of the common woolly monkey, Lagothrix lagothricha . The reports I have collected i n northern Peru indicate that

Cryptid description . As the name suggests, this animal is said to be a very large black felid. The reports that I have collected concur that the animal is entirely black, without markings of any kind. Its eyes are said to be large and greenish. It is reported to be at least twice the size of the ja

e Giant Black Panther j Speckled Tiger

Cryptid description. This felid also is about the size of the j aguar. It is reported to be tan colored, but it has tiger-like stripes instead of the j aguar like rosettes. Habitat. This animal is reported in both hilly and lowland rain forest. Behavior. Nothing is known about its behavior. Like th

Cryptid description. This felid is about the size of a common domestic cat, and has varied coloration similar to that of domestic cats; that is, in dividuals have blotches of various colors and shapes. An unusual feature is that its canines are noticeably longer than those of domestic cats, or thos

"SEA SERPENT" REPORTS PAUL CROPPER 87 Croydon A venue, Croydon Park, New South Wales 2 1 33, Australia M ALCO LM S M IT H No. 7, Twenty- Third A venue, Brighton, Brisbane,

PAUL CROPPER 87 Croydon A venue, Croydon Park, New South Wales 2 1 33, Australia M ALCO LM S M IT H No. 7, Twenty- Third A venue, Brighton, Brisbane, Queensland 40 1 7, Australia

87 Croydon A venue, Croydon Park, New South Wales 2 1 33, Australia M ALCO LM S M IT H No. 7, Twenty- Third A venue, Brighton, Brisbane, Queensland 40 1 7, Australia ABSTRAcr: Thirteen reports of unidentified marine animals from Australian and

THE REPORTS chart called the Elphinstone Reef, in Latitude 1 1 degrees 10 South, and long 1 3 1 . 2 5 degrees E, about 5 miles from Cape Fleeming, Melville Islands S . E . point. [He means N.E. point.] I was steering with the big sweep oar, when Baxter shouted out to me "Whats that j ust astern ther

chart called the Elphinstone Reef, in Latitude 1 1 degrees 10 South, and long 1 3 1 . 2 5 degrees E, about 5 miles from Cape Fleeming, Melville Islands S . E . point. [He means N.E. point.] I was steering with the big sweep oar, when Baxter shouted out to me "Whats that j ust astern there?" I turned

of Judah sends us the following memorandum: "Tuesday, November 20th, 1 8 77. Lon gitude 1 2 1 . 26 E., latitude 40.2 S., at 1 1 a.m., while some of the hands were aloft they saw a very large serpent on the weather bow. The vessel passed close to it about forty yards off, and it appeared to be about

THE CHINESE YEREN OR WILDMAN FRANK E. POIRIER Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 4321 0, U.S.A. J . RicHARD GREENWELL

FRANK E. POIRIER Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 4321 0, U.S.A. J . RicHARD GREENWELL Secretariat, International Society of Cryptozoology,

There are no known photographs, undisputed bodies, or skeletal remains. Although the Yeren has reportedly been killed and/or captured on several occasions, no bodies have ever been made available for study. On the other hand, there are centuries of purported contact, drawings, and lengthy de script

1) Monkey babies: A birth defect produces a condition that local people refer to as "monkey babies." Afflicted children are claimed to result from a mating (usually a rape) between a male Yeren and a female villager. (Rarely is a male villager reported raped by a female Yeren). The children are born

A few hundred hairs have been collected by people who reportedly either encountered a Yeren or plucked its hair from the ground or a tree. Most written and oral accounts report an animal with long reddish, golden, or brownish hair. Some Yeren hairs have been analyzed by use of both scanning electron

Asiatic black and Asian brown bear. PIXE analysis resulted in three distinct groupings. The first group included the human hair samples and only one Yeren hair; the second group contained only three of the 1 0 hairs originally designated as Yeren hairs, and the third group contained all the other ha

Hair analyses suggest the possibility that an animal which the Chinese refer to as Yeren may exist. If this animal does exist, what could it be? Listed below are three explanatory hypotheses. 1 ) One hypothesis attributes all reports to observations of scientifically known animals, or to hoaxing. Th

REPORTS FROM LAKE CHAMPLAIN, LOCH NESS, AND OKANAGAN LAKE Y ASUSHI KOJO Office for the Investigation of Buried Cultural Properties, Waseda University, 3-4-67 Higashifushimi, Hoya- City, Tokyo 202, Japan

Y ASUSHI KOJO Office for the Investigation of Buried Cultural Properties, Waseda University, 3-4-67 Higashifushimi, Hoya- City, Tokyo 202, Japan ROY P . MAC KA L ABSTRAcr: The distributional patterns of sighting times of reported large, un

CRY PTOZOOLOGY decrease i s not observable in the Lake Champlain reports suggests that the distributional pattern of sighting times of the animals reported in Loch Ness is likewise a result of a behavioral characteristic associated with the animals themselves. That the pattern is a product of sampli

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29 Locust Road, Northport, New York 1 1 768, U.S.A. INTRODUCTION In his classic compendium, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life ( 1 96 1 , Chilton, Philadelphia), the late I van T. Sanderson provided one of the few detailed accounts of the Duende of Belize (formerly British Hon

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J AMES A . HEWKIN 35237 Aubuckon Drive, St. Helens, Oregon 97051 INTRODUCTION This report updates my previous findings published in this journal con cerning evidence of Sasquatch (Bigfoot), a presumed large, unknown primate

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postscript (p. 1 8 7), Allen writes: "We are greater than matter and can even create a shadow of it ourselves . . . " This same phrase is repeated several times earlier in the 1 8 previous chapters. Perhaps Allen is trying to find He takes us through part of the Hmong culture, as well as other cultu

Humanities Division (A nthropology) College of the Redwoods Eureka, California 95501, U. S.A . Comm ents and Responses This section permits readers to critique or com ment on works previously

(Response to Bernard Heuvelmans, 1 99 1 , Other Defi n itions, Other Heresies, Cryptozoology, Vol. 1 0: 1 04- 1 06) I am sorry that Heuvelmans has rejected my definition of cryptozoology because I still think it is correct and serves the best interests of the discipline. What really sets a disciplin

(Comment on Adrienne Mayor, 1 99 1 , Griffin Bones: Ancient Folklore and Paleontology, Cryptozoology, Vol. 1 : 1 6-4 1 ) I am delighted with Mayor's article, and would like to congratulate her on her work. This despite the fact that, in a sense, her paper is a reversal of the process of cryptozoolog

(Comment on Adrienne Mayor, 1 99 1 , Griffin Bones: Ancient Folklore and Paleontology, Cryptozoology, Vol. 1 0: 1 6-4 1 ) I n a recent paper, folklorist Adrienne Mayor presents an argument linking the legend of the griffin (or gryps) with fossils of the extinct ceratopsian dinosaur Protoceratops and

1 5 7 1 4 86th A venue Edmonton, Alberta, T5R 4C4 Canada (John Acorn is a biologist and free-lance science writer. He served as science consultant for The Dinosaur Project, a joint Canadian-Chinese venture co ordinated by the Ex Terra Foundation of Edmonton.)

(Response to Bayanov and Acorn) Bayanov's experience with griffins depicted . along with real animals in ancient art strikes a chord with me. My first impression upon reading the ancient Greek authors' descriptions of the animal called gryps, or griffin, was a sense of "reality. " The earliest depic

(Comment on Athol M. Douglas, 1 990, The Thylacine: A Case for Current Existence on Mainland Australia. Cryptozoology, Vol. 9: 1 3-2 5) As a keen follower of reports of Australian cryptids, I found Douglas's recent paper on mainland thylacines extremely interesting, but there are a number of issues

(Comment on Yasushi Kojo, 1 99 1 , Some Ecological Notes on Reported Large, Unknown Animals in Lake Champlain, Cryptozoology, Vol. 1 0: 4254) Kojo has presented an interesting and provocative analysis, in particular the comparison of sighting times between Champlain and Ness. Quite gen erally, I be

(Response to Bauer) I am grateful to Bauer for his comments on my article on the unidentified animals in Lake Champlain. I agree with him that, in order to strengthen my argument, sighting time data of aquatic animals whose behavioral pat terns are already known would be helpful. However, such data

(Yasushi Kojo recently obtained a doctoral degree in anthropology at The University of Arizona. He has conducted cryptozoological fieldwork at Lake Champlain in both summer and winter. See his new article on the subject elsewhere in this issue.) THE LoYS "APE" AGAIN

(Comment on Marc E. W. Miller and Khryztian E. Miller, 1 99 1 , Further Investigations into Loys's "Ape" in Venezuela, Cryptozoology, Vol. 1 0: 66-7 1 ) I was somewhat surprised to see that the de Loys "ape" is still considered an open file in the annals of cryptozoology. As far back as 1 96 1 , nat

490 Broad Street Weymouth, Massachusetts 02 1 88, U. S.A . (Comment on James A. Hewkin, 1 9 9 1 . Sasquatch Investigations in the Pa cific Northwest, 1 99 1 , Cryptozoology, Vol. 1 0: 7 6-78) Hewkin reported his observation of a series of rocks pulled from a trail.

Division of Natural Sciences St. Norbert College DePere, Wisconsin 541 1 5, U. S.A . (Philip Cochran is an ecologist especially interested i n fishes, amphibians, a nd reptiles.)

(Response to Cochran) I concur wholeheartedly with Cochran on his response to my suggestion that the rough-skinned newt, Taricha granulosa, found under rocks may be a food source for Sasquatch. Cochran gives an informative evaluation of this common salamander, an evaluation that we should all be awa

35237 A ubuckon Drive St. Helens, Oregon 9705 1, U. S.A. (James Hewkin is a wildlife biologist formerly with the Oregon Department ofFish and Wildlife. He has been investigating Sasquatch evidencefor almost 20 years. See his new Field Report elsewhere in this issue.)

Third Annual Membership Meeting ( 1 984) Laboratory of Vertebrate and Human Paleontology University of Paris VI Paris, France June 9, 1 984

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