Beasts of North America, real and fabled.

[MOMUS]

I moved this item from news to here. It can vegetate for longer.
I am interested in hearing from anyone about rumored sightings of the fabled 'black panther" of the Southern woods. Any comments?
Also invader species. I can tell you that the Texas horned lizard has disappeared from its range wherever the fire ant has appeared. I grew up with horny toads in East Texas and haven't seen one there or elsewhere in twenty years. I'm told that they survive in West Texas in areas too dry to attract the ant.
Any personal encounters with other non-primate invaders? Are walking catfish trampling your lawn? Zebra-mussels clogging your drain? Japanese hornets killing your bees? Killer-bees taking out contracts on you?

A strange creature was photographed in North Carolina, it looks like a cross between a red wolf and a gray fox, with the long thin tail of a cat.
Like a Maned Wolf of South American without the mane.
Any thoughts, amateur naturalists?
What's going on in them there deepwoods? On that subject if anyone has anything to say about the legends of 'black panthers' in the wilds of North America I'd like to hear it. I'd prefer to see a picture.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/...gi?ArtNum=52284 (http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=52284)

http://www.news-record.com/graphics/june/creature060304.jpg

[Abzug Hoffman]

I moved this item from news to here. It can vegetate for longer.
I am interested in hearing from anyone about rumored sightings of the fabled 'black panther" of the Southern woods. Any comments?
Also invader species. I can tell you that the Texas horned lizard has disappeared from its range wherever the fire ant has appeared. I grew up with horny toads in East Texas and haven't seen one there or elsewhere in twenty years. I'm told that they survive in West Texas in areas too dry to attract the ant.
Any personal encounters with other non-primate invaders? Are walking catfish trampling your lawn? Zebra-mussels clogging your drain? Japanese hornets killing your bees? Killer-bees taking out contracts on you?

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/...gi?ArtNum=52284 (http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=52284)

http://www.news-record.com/graphics/june/creature060304.jpg

I have a postcard of a jackalope you might be interested in.

[MOMUS]

Those critters are all over the place.
A neighbor down the way has a twenty foot tall steel sculpture of a jackalope. It doubles as a traveling barbeque grill.
Seriously.
I live in Texas.

I have a postcard of a jackalope you might be interested in.

[MOMUS]

Regarding the jackalope legend, Professor A.P. Dant sends this:
There really are . . . well, not jackalopes, but horned rabbits. In 1933 biologists Richard E. Shope and W. W. Hurst revealed that cottontail rabbits suffered from a disease later named Shope's papilloma DNA virus (one wonders how Hurst felt about this). Shope's papilloma virus, which is spread by fleas or ticks, can cause giant skin tumors, which on the face can look like horns or beards. Turns out Shope's papilloma virus has long been present in the rabbit population of not only the western U.S. but also central Europe and Asia, which have also generated stories about horned rabbits. The horns can reach four to five inches in length...
I have a postcard of a jackalope you might be interested in.

[Whirlwind]

K-9 in question looks sort of like a dingo. The native dog of Australia.
Go to http://www.wwwins.net.au/dingofarm/02.html I promise you will see something very un-PC a little more than halfway down. Just minding my own business trying to look for a good picture of dingos...

[MOMUS]

Egads! Dingoes ate my nipples!
http://www.wwwins.net.au/dingofarm/feeding.gif


K-9 in question looks sort of like a dingo. The native dog of Australia.
Go to http://www.wwwins.net.au/dingofarm/02.html I promise you will see something very un-PC a little more than halfway down. Just minding my own business trying to look for a good picture of dingos...

[Katie]

http://www.wwwins.net.au/dingofarm/feeding.gif

That is truly disgusting!

[MOMUS]

Go back and look at the foxy face, the snipy nose, and long skinny neck. Just as weird is the extremely long, thin, catlike tail.
Dingos are dogs: picture the animal in the picture wagging that appendage, it would more likely whip it, like a cat.
Foxes have a thick, fluffy, tail, a brush.
The animal in the picture resembles nothing in the wild, no known species. The combinations it suggests are unlikely as well.

Cool picture of Abo mammy with pendant paps, puppy festooned.
Hell, let's see it again.
http://www.wwwins.net.au/dingofarm/feeding.gif
Katie says it's gross. I guess she'd just let those poor lil puppies starve. I thought she was much nicer than that.

K-9 in question looks sort of like a dingo. The native dog of Australia.
Go to http://www.wwwins.net.au/dingofarm/02.html I promise you will see something very un-PC a little more than halfway down. Just minding my own business trying to look for a good picture of dingos...

[Ossian]

That thing looks a lot like (thug and "godfather of soul") James Brown!

[MOMUS]

That thing looks a lot like (thug and "godfather of soul") James Brown!
Say it loud, I'm drunk and I'm proud!
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/packageart/mugshots/jbrownmug1.jpg

[Whirlwind]

Good call Ossian! I always wondered what he did or didn't do to his hair. Note ol' danglebreasts doesn't have nappy hair either.

[JohnJizmTree]

I.
Comrades does anyone have the 19th Century 'Fortean' monochrome photograph of an alleged Thunderbird caught in the Mojave ?.

II.

In discussing the fabled beasts of North America, the 'Mothman' must surely rank high among the most Spooktastic of fabulous critters in the Crypto-Zoological bestiary of the US of A.

Truly thine
Jan Jozif Traumshnickle (aka JJT)
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