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On the Track of Unknown Animals is a cryptozoological
Cryptozoology

Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience focused on the search for animals which are considered to be fictional or otherwise nonexistent by mainstream biology....
 book by French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 author Bernard Heuvelmans
Bernard Heuvelmans

Bernard Heuvelmans was a Demographics of Belgium-France scientist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as "the father of cryptozoology"....
 that was first published in 1955 under the title Sur la Piste des Bêtes Ignorées. The English translation by Richard Garnett was published in 1958 with some updating by the author and with a forward by Gerald Durrell
Gerald Durrell

Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE was a natural history, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter. He founded what is now called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Islands of Jersey in 1958, but is perhaps best remembered for writing a number of books based on his life as an animal c...
. A revised and abridged edition was published in 1965, and a further edition in 1995.

On the Track of Unknown Animals cites animals that had only been discovered relatively recently, such as the pygmy chimpanzee
Bonobo

The Bonobo , which, until recently, usually was called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often, the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is a great ape and one of the two species making up the genus, chimpanzee....
, Coelocanth, Komodo Dragon
Komodo dragon

The Komodo dragon is a species of lizard that inhabits the islands of Komodo , Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang in Indonesia. A member of the monitor lizard family , it is the Largest organisms#Reptiles , growing to an average length of and weighing around ....
 and Giant Panda
Giant Panda

The Giant Panda is a mammal classified in the bear family , native to central-western and southwestern China. The Giant Panda was previously thought to be a member of the Procyonidae family....
; and those that are believed to have gone extinct relatively recently, such as the Moa
Moa

The moa were ten species of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand. The two largest species, Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae, reached about in height with neck outstretched, and weighed about ....
 and Tasmanian Tiger.






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On the Track of Unknown Animals is a cryptozoological
Cryptozoology

Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience focused on the search for animals which are considered to be fictional or otherwise nonexistent by mainstream biology....
 book by French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 author Bernard Heuvelmans
Bernard Heuvelmans

Bernard Heuvelmans was a Demographics of Belgium-France scientist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as "the father of cryptozoology"....
 that was first published in 1955 under the title Sur la Piste des Bêtes Ignorées. The English translation by Richard Garnett was published in 1958 with some updating by the author and with a forward by Gerald Durrell
Gerald Durrell

Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE was a natural history, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter. He founded what is now called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Islands of Jersey in 1958, but is perhaps best remembered for writing a number of books based on his life as an animal c...
. A revised and abridged edition was published in 1965, and a further edition in 1995.

On the Track of Unknown Animals cites animals that had only been discovered relatively recently, such as the pygmy chimpanzee
Bonobo

The Bonobo , which, until recently, usually was called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often, the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is a great ape and one of the two species making up the genus, chimpanzee....
, Coelocanth, Komodo Dragon
Komodo dragon

The Komodo dragon is a species of lizard that inhabits the islands of Komodo , Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang in Indonesia. A member of the monitor lizard family , it is the Largest organisms#Reptiles , growing to an average length of and weighing around ....
 and Giant Panda
Giant Panda

The Giant Panda is a mammal classified in the bear family , native to central-western and southwestern China. The Giant Panda was previously thought to be a member of the Procyonidae family....
; and those that are believed to have gone extinct relatively recently, such as the Moa
Moa

The moa were ten species of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand. The two largest species, Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae, reached about in height with neck outstretched, and weighed about ....
 and Tasmanian Tiger. He then discusses evidence for cryptid
Cryptid

Cryptid is a term which is used in the pseudoscience of cryptozoology to refer to a creature whose existence has been suggested by cryptozoologists but lacks scientific support....
s from all over the world including the Mokele-mbembe
Mokèlé-mbèmbé

Mok?l?-mb?mb?: meaning "one who stops the flow of rivers" in the Lingala language, is the name given to a large water dwelling cryptid found in legends and folklore of the Congo River basin....
, Sea Serpent
Sea serpent

A sea serpent or sea dragon is a mythological sea monster either wholly or partly serpentine.Sightings of sea serpents have been reported for hundreds of years, and continue to be claimed today....
, Yeti
Yeti

The Yeti or Abominable Snowman is an ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the Himalayasn region of Nepal and Tibet. The names Yeti and Meh-Teh are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region, and are part of their history and mythology....
 and many others, with an extensive bibliography. He begins by complaining that "The Press has made such a laughing-stock of the Loch Ness Monster
Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster is a creature alleged to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to the next....
...that no scientific commission has ever dared tackle the problem" and ends with the wish that any new species are not merely slaughtered for trophies: "Have pity on them all, for it is we who are the real monsters."

Contents

  • Part 1: The Great Days of Zoology are Not Done
  • Part 2: The Man-Faced Animals of South-East Asia
  • Part 3: The Living Fossils of Oceania
  • Part 4: Riddles of the Green Continent
  • Part 5: The Giants of the Far North
  • Part 6: The Lesson of the Malagasy Ghosts


Bibliography

  • Sur la Piste des Bêtes Ignorées by Bernard Heuvelmans
    Bernard Heuvelmans

    Bernard Heuvelmans was a Demographics of Belgium-France scientist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as "the father of cryptozoology"....
    , Libraire Plon, 1955
  • On the Track of Unknown Animals by Bernard Heuvelmans
    Bernard Heuvelmans

    Bernard Heuvelmans was a Demographics of Belgium-France scientist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as "the father of cryptozoology"....
    , trans Richard Garnett, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958
  • On the Track of Unknown Animals by Bernard Heuvelmans
    Bernard Heuvelmans

    Bernard Heuvelmans was a Demographics of Belgium-France scientist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as "the father of cryptozoology"....
    , Kegan Paul, 3rd revised edition, 1995 ISBN 0-7103-0498-6


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