Dartmoor Beast Identified As New Species Of European Giant Hyrax?

Status
Not open for further replies.
I cant view the images because i am too lazy to register, the link did work but i dont recall any images that would prove its size.

Even still camera have a focal lenght, depth of field, f-stops, distortions of the parallax etc. Most of the time it is hard to judge the distance between two objects and that distorts the ability to accurateyl determine the size of the object further away.
 
common_sense_seeker said:
Hyraxes on the other hand were prolific during the past, sometimes evolving to the size of a pony. This is the rotund stature of the herbivorous hyrax imo.
Click to expand...
So there's a large mammal living in the UK which, despite thousands of years of recorded human habitation, large scale deforestation and one of the most densely packed populations in the world, this 'dog sized hyrax species' has managed to avoid detection by everyone, including leaving behind no bones or tracks or droppings or anything.

So not only does an entire species of animal behave completely the opposite to all other documented animals (ie avoiding large food sources in population centres, as I mentioned in my last post) but it manages to hide all reference and evidence of its dead from the soil record and has done this for millenia despite the south of England being stripped of most forest, all other British native animals of that size being wiped out in the wild (bear, boar etc) and the human population exploding to tens of millions?!

Please explain to me how an entire large mammal species can not only avoid 30 million people, throughout history, but also leaves no bones or any other record of its existence which every other mammal in Britain has left in the soil.

Common sense would say you are wrong. But you don't have any common sense!
 
I was on Dartmoor just last summer. I saw ponies, sheep, cows and horses. And all of their faeces. A colony of them would be easy to spot, therefore.

Hey, CSS, why don't you try to get a satellite image of the area, and try and spot one! :lol:
 
Enmos said:
It's a freakin' dog!
Click to expand...
It's not a freakin' dog, it's a Hyrax!
I've found a picture of one which is even opposed to global warming.

images

Hyrax saving Planet

To Common Sense Seeker:
Seeker, this is outside your usual territory.

Do you as a matter of principle agree with anything which is plainly nonsense,
or are you just winding us up?
 
Captain Kremmen said:
It's not a freakin' dog, it's a Hyrax!
I've found a picture of one which is even opposed to global warming.

images

Hyrax saving Planet

To Common Sense Seeker:
Seeker, this is outside your usual territory.

Do you as a matter of principle agree with anything which is plainly nonsense,
or are you just winding us up?
Click to expand...
LOL! :roflmao: nice photo.

No, I'm serious. It's the best fit of the evidence imo. Remember what Sherlock Holmes used to say..
 
Not by the descriptions it wasn't.

The appearance of a werewolf in its animal form varies from culture to culture, though they are most commonly portrayed as being indistinguishable from ordinary wolves save for the fact that they have no tail..
Click to expand...
 
phlogistician said:
It was a dog/wolf hybrid though, as Werewolves are creatures of myth and legend, and not actually real?
Click to expand...
I'll highlight the simlarities between the legends of the Welsh Werewolf and the legends of the Wisht Hounds:

Most people have heard of the Beast of Bodmin Moor and the Surrey Puma.

But there is another violent creature roaming parts of the United Kingdom which has also killed people, and this animal is known as the Welsh Werewolf.

Records of an enormous wolf-like animal in North Wales date back to 1790, when a stagecoach travelling between Denbigh and Wrexham was attacked and overturned by an enormous black beast almost as long as the coach horses.

The terrifying animal tore into one of the horses and killed it, while the other horse broke free from its harness and galloped off into the night.

The attack took place just after dusk, with a full moon on the horizon. The moon that month seemed blood red, probably because of dust in the stratosphere from a recent forest fire in the Hatchmere area.

The locals thought the moon's colour was a sign that something evil was at large and the superstitious phrase, "bad moon on the rise" was whispered in travellers' inns across the region. In the winter of 1791, a farmer went into his snow-covered field just seven miles east of Gresford, and he saw enormous tracks that looked like those belonging to an overgrown wolf.

He followed the tracks with a blacksmith for two miles, and they led to a scene of mutilation which made the villagers in the area quake with fear that night.

One snow-covered field was a lake of blood dotted with carcasses of sheep, cattle, and even the farmer's dog.

The farmer was found locked up in his house in a terrible state. He wasn't harmed physically, but he was terrified. He had barricaded himself in after witnessing an enormous black animal that resembled a wolf ripping the throat out of his sheepdog.

The animal had then gone for the farmer, but he had managed to run into the farmhouse in time. He had bolted the heavy oaken door and hid under a table in the kitchen armed only with a pitchfork.

The farmer said the wolf pounded on the heavy oak door, almost knocking it off its hinges. The weird-looking animal then stood up on its hind legs like a human and looked in through the windows of the farmhouse.

Its eyes were blue and seemed intelligent and almost human-like. The beast foamed at the mouth as it peered in, then bolted from the window to commit carnage on the farm.

The church set up patrols in search of what was suspected to be a werewolf, and bands of villagers braved the freezing blizzards with lanterns, muskets and pitchforks in search of the beast, but only its tracks were ever seen.

Seven years later, two men walking across the Bickerton Hills in Cheshire saw something that sent them running for their lives.

They rushed into an inn and refused to continue their journey until morning. At dawn on the following day, the mutilated bodies of two vagrants were found in a wood just five miles from the inn.

The attacks by the large black wolf gradually died out, and the people of Cheshire and Wales breathed a sigh of relief.

But two centuries later, attacks by a large unidentified animal were reported again.

In February 1992, a national newspaper reported sightings of a strange bear-like animal that had been seen across Wales. In the north of the country, a farmer who had spotted the animal on the night of a full moon said he had afterwards found two of his lambs had been killed.

And in 2001 the local newspaper, the Evening Leader ran a series of articles about sightings of big cats, like a puma in Treuddyn, near Mold, and Bangor-on-Dee, near Wrexham.'
Click to expand...
 
Captain Kremmen said:
It's not a freakin' dog, it's a Hyrax!
I've found a picture of one which is even opposed to global warming.

images

Hyrax saving Planet
Click to expand...
lol :D

Captain Kremmen said:
To Common Sense Seeker:
Seeker, this is outside your usual territory.

Do you as a matter of principle agree with anything which is plainly nonsense,
or are you just winding us up?
Click to expand...
I'm pretty sure it's the former. It's somewhat of a trend with him..
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top