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ON THE TRACK OF UNKNOWN ANIMALS Now, after almost half a century of tireless research the author is more than ever convinced, in front of the 4,343 square kilometres of inextricable tropical jungles of the Taman Negara, the national park of peninsular Malaysia, that animals of medium to large size are still to be discovered. (Photo B. Heuvelmans). ON THE TRACK OF UNKNOW N ANIMATS Bernard Heuvelmans, d.s.c. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY Richard Garnett WITH 120 DRAWINGS BY A lika Lindbergh AND AN INTRODUCTION BY Gerald Durrell First published 1995 by Kegan Paul International Limited Published 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Distributed by John Wiley & Sons Limited Southern Cross Trading Estate, 1 Oldlands Way, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, P022 9SA, England Tel: (01234) 779 777 Fax: (01234) 820 250 Columbia University Press 562 West 113th Street, New York, NY 10025, USA Tel: (212) 666 1000 Fax: (212) 316 3100 This revised third English edition © Bernard Heuvelmans 1995 Set in 10/13pt Times Phototypeset by Intype, London All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. ISBN 978-0-710-30498-8 (HBK) ISBN 978-1-315-82885-5 (elSBN) British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Heuvelmans, Bernard On the Track of Unknown Animals.— 3 Rev.ed I. Title II. Garnett, Richard III. Lindbergh, Alika 591.529 ISBN 0-7103-0498-6 US Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Heuvelmans, Bernard. [Sur la piste des bêtes ignorées. English] On the track of unknown animals / by Bernard Heuvelmans : translated from the French by Richard Garnett: with 120 drawings by Alika Lindbergh and an introduction by Gerald Durrell. 655pp. 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 627) and index. ISBN 0-7103-0498-6 1. Cryptozoology. I. Title. QL88.3.H4813 1984 591—dc20 94-34307 CIP TO DR SERGE FRECHKOP who first led me into the field of mammalogy, in deep gratitude and in the hope that he will not take amiss this excursion on the frontier of science and fantasy This page intentionally left blank C o n ten ts introduction by Gerald Durrell xvii PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION XXiii PART ONE The Great Days of Zoology are not Done 1. There are Lost Worlds Everywhere 3 2. Cuvier’s Rash Dictum 18 3. The Survivors from the Past 70 PART TWO The Man-Faced Animals of South-East Asia 4. Nittaewo, the Lost People of Ceylon 91 5. Orang Pendek, the Ape-Man of Sumatra 119 6. The Not So Abominable Snowman 143 PART THREE The Living Fossils of Oceania 7. The Surrealist Dinosaur of New Guinea 219 8. The Incredible Australian Bunyips 226 9. The Queensland Marsupial Tiger 251 10. The Moa, a Fossil that May Still Thrive 262 11. Waitoreke, the Impossible New Zealand Mammal 293 PART FOUR Riddles of the Green Continent 12. The Patagonian Giant Sloth 301 13. The Giant Anaconda and Other Inland ‘Sea-Serpents’ 338 14. Apes in Green Hell 363 vii C ontents PART FIVE The Giants of the Far North 15. The Mammoth of the Taiga 397 PART SIX The Terrors of Africa 16. Three Large Pygmies: the Forest Rhinoceros, the Water Elephant and the Spotted Lion 427 17. The Nandi Bear, an East African Proteus 445 18. Mngwa, the Strange One 495 19. The Little Hairy Men 503 20. The Dragon St George Did Not Kill 520 21. Kongamato, the Last Flying Dragon 582 part seven The Lesson of the Malagasy Ghosts 22. Tratratratra, Vorompatra, etcetera 601 BIBLIOGRAPHY 625 index 653 viii I llustrations in th e T ex t Plates 1. Sheltopusik. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 14 2. Balkin’s photograph. (Ullstein) 15 3. Indian tapirs. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 20 4. Gelada. (Photo Gérard Vienne, Le Peuple Singe) 21 5. Gorilla. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 27 6. Giant panda. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 32 7. The black rhinoceros and the white rhinoceros (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 39 8. White rhinoceroses in Zululand. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 40 9. Okapi. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 43 10. Pygmy hippopotamus. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 49 11. Pygmy hippopotamus. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 51 12. Komodo dragons. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 53 13. Pygmy gorilla. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 54 14. The skull and the skin which led to the discovery of the pygmy chimpanzee. (Photos B. Heuvelmans and Antwerp Zoo) 56 15. Chapin’s intriguing feather and Dr Schouteden, director of the Tervueren Museum. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 57 16. Stuffed specimens of the Congo peacock. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 59 17. Kou-prey, or grey ox. (After Harold J. Coolidge) 63 18. Maned wolves. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 65 19. The Andean wolf, compared with the maned wolf of the pampas. (Umschau) 66 20. Horseshoe-crabs in copulation. (Photo U Univers du Vivant) 71 21. Giant tortoise of the Galapagos Islands. (Photo Ylla-Rapho) 74 22. African crocodiles. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 75 23. Neopilina galathea. (Photo Dr Henning Lemche) 76 24. The original coelacanth. 77 25. Orang utan. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 103 26. Standing gibbon. (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 107 27. Gibbon walking upright (Photo B. Heuvelmans) 108 ix
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