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Bernard Heuvelmans is the founder of "cryptozoology" - the science of hidden animals. Whereas palaeontology discovers and describes organisms of the past, cryptozoology does the same with animals of the present. At a time when many known species have become extinct or endangered, it is exciting and affirmative to discover previously unknown species in our midst. First published before the validity and importance of the subject was recognized, and now rewritten to take account of the newest discoveries, "On the Track of Unknown Animals" is both a popular introduction to cryptozoology and a scientific presentation of "hidden" animals. The striking progress of cryptozoology is illustrated by the fact that in the past 12 years alone, some 40 spectacular new animal species have been discovered and described to science, and this book presents evidence of numerous others. Cryptozoology is certainly one of the most compelling of the new sciences, a great adventure in the quest for knowledge.
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目录信息
Preface to the Revised Edition.
Part One: The Great Days of Zoology Are Not Done.
There are Lost Worlds Everywhere. Cuvier's Rash Dictum.
The Survivors from the Past.
Part Two: The Man-Faced Animals of South-East Asia.
Nittaewo, the Lost People of Ceylon.
Orang Pendek, the Ape-Man of Sumatra.
The Not So Abominable Snowman.
Part Three: The Living Fossils of Oceania.
The Surrealist Dinosaur of New Guinea.
The Incredible Australian Bunyips.
The Queensland Marsupial Tiger.
The Moa, a Fossil that May Still Thrive.
Waitoreke, the Impossible New Zealand Mammal.
Part Four: Riddles of the Green Continent.
The Patagonian Giant Sloth.
The Giant Anaconda and Other Inland 'Sea-Serpents'.
Apes in Green Hell.
Part Five: The Giants of the Far North.
The Mammoth of the Taiga.
Part Six: The Terros of Africa.
Three Large Pygmies: the Forest Rhinoceros, the Water Elephant and the Spotted Lion.
The Nandi Bear, an East African Proteus.
Mngwa, the Strange One. The Little Hairy Men.
The dragon St George Did Not Kill. Kongamato, the Last Flying Dragon.
Part Seven: The Lesson of the Malagasy Ghosts.
Tratratratra, Vorompatra, etcetera.
Bibliography.
Index.
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