Here I present ins & outs or discoveries that remark on rare creatures, not yet investigated in popular science. Papers and references noticed populations of previously unknown genres. The references come from "travel in time and space" but are no older than two centuries before current times. We have still holocene.
The wild Orient harbors dozens of cryptids of Carnivora, native to former French Indochina, Philippines, Greater China or Kazakhstan. There are rumors of the existence of minus-known creatures, especially from scientific or explorer's literature. Natural history project and further records in a case study i.e distribution point records would be kindly appreciated. Zoological exploration and taxonomic diagnosis are repaid by close investigation which would be defined. Some of the creatures are true species, which are followed by zoologists and some of them are only hoax.....Define the fake records and misidentifications, and of course the unknown populations remain to be discovered, if extant still.
¤ Ch'ik hung is a type of unknown animal resembling a red bear, living in a wild mandarin state, probably in the country of Guangzhou (Dictionary of Cantonese dialect 1911). ¤ In accordance with Samuel Williams in the late 19th century in the interior, somewhere in Tibet there was a reddish kind of Mellivora. The creature had a pointed nose and thick red fur. He scientifically recorded their digging behaviour and awkward long sleep. ¤ Armand David in his Accounts of China by 1873 recorded two kinds of rare and weird mustelid from sichuan-tibetan lands: brown badger and large variety of marten, which had not been observed anywhere else in China nor in other parts of Asia. The first one could be identical with Williams' creature. ¤ Francis Kingdon-Ward recorded in northern Burma in 1937 some kind of species. He met them in small pack, creatures with raccoon-like appearance, as he had written that and tracks, which they left very similar to a dog. Perhaps, the creature was a kind of wild canine, but with doubtful classification nowadays. It is improbable to be close related with gold-backed animals from Gaoligong Hills, located across the borderlands (chinese beletristic). ¤ Carnivorous sloth with arboreal habits is another mystery animal, which could be a variety of giant wampire (?). The being was presented in a book Wild Life in China of 1913, in chapter written by F. Kingdon-Ward. Areas, which had been noticed as habitat of this species, covered the rim of the grassland plateau beyond Sung - pan on Kan-su and Sichuan borders. Natural history of the creature remains an enigma and could not be a fake. ¤ David Xu in his outstanding Mystery Creatures of China assumed a record of short-legged, dog-like animals from Jishan Country in 2009. Similar forms have been caught later onto streets of Wuhan, but no more information was published. Some say they were an archaic variety of feral dogs such as chinese pariahs. ¤ A Dictionary of the Chinese Language in 1822 gives information on crypto-animals from Indochina such as the mung, which is a variety of weasel or monkey, but a species unknown to science. ¤ Hints from 漢英韻府 of 1874 describes animal called li, which is a species of spotted small cat or loris-like animal and recorded from Kwangsi Land. ¤ There are old records from The Zoologist Journal (1861) of a large forest marten called "musk cat" from the Shanghai territories, a species unknown to naturalists. ¤ What is sichuanese isatis? Oh, the horror! It is a bizarre species, caged in trap in 2006 in Cantone assumed to be catched in the remote parts of Sichuan-Shaanxi borders, perhaps occured in Qin-ling Range too. It is described as an animal in captivity with piebald skin fur, musk odour, strange behaviors and wide feet. No more is delivered, except the locals anecdotal infos such from the hunters reports. ¤ So-called ground-fox had been described as a carnivorous creature recorded from Shan-tung in early 20th.... It was denoted as a quirky species and was mentioned in a book of Henderson Smith called Village Life in China. ¤ In Manchuria occurred an animal known as chu'an'shu, a type of small predatory mammal unknown to science, similar to a cat or a large weasel (Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports, 1871)
Posted by Tomek Pietrzak or Caniche as pseudonym. I am a Polish wildlife researcher with B.Sc. in life science (2011). This post is part of the project *league-scientifique*.
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