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The Field Guide to
Bigfoot
and Other Mystery Primates
is a comprehensive study of the astonishing variety of puzzling
primates that are being reported by eyewitnesses around the world - but
that science has failed to recognize. This fully illustrated volume not
only contains the references, range maps, and typical footprints that
appeared in the first edition, but it also contains a new, complete
index and new preface that updates the discoveries made since this book
was first published.
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THE FIELD GUIDE TO BIGFOOT
and Other Mystery Primates
by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe
Anomalist Books
Trade Paperback,
$14.00
ISBN: 1933665122
224 pages, illustrated, index
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From
the Preface to the New Edition:
FIELD WORTHY
We were not afraid to look at old data in legends and folklore, as well
as some contemporary sightings along the same vein, and some skeptics
took us to task for that also. In discussing the field worthiness of
the drawings and range maps in this field guide, Benjamin Radford, the
managing editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, jokingly
suggested that researchers take along our field guide while doing
fieldwork in Denmark looking for Grendel. Ha, ha.
But maybe the joke is on Radford as hominologists and cryptozoologists
have done just that. In one widely noted instance dating to the spring
of 1999, Bobbie Short, a respected California Bigfoot researcher,
brought along our field guide to question native peoples in the
Philippines. Islanders closely examined the illustrations in our guide
when sign language failed. From this fieldwork, for the first time,
Short obtained accurate composites of the Kapre, Waray-Waray, and
Orang-Pendek (Oceania: Proto-Pygmy).
This field guide also proved useful to the February and March 2001
CryptoSafari expedition consisting of William Gibbons, John Kirk,
Robert A. Mullin, and Scott T. Norman, who had gone to southern
Cameroon, near the village of Moloundou, bordering the Congo, looking
for evidence of Mokele-mbembe (e.g. an aquatic cryptid). Assisted by
Pastor Phil Anderton, local tracker Pierre Sima, and ten Baka pygmy
guides and porters, the expedition ventured deep into the rainforest.
During a break in their trek, the pygmies told of the existence of a
fierce creature they had tracked through the forest for seven
consecutive days in January 2001. Sima and the pygmies saw a
three-foot-tall creature and discovered its three-toed, humanlike
footprints on the forest floor. The Cameroon locals identified what
they had seen as looking like the illustration of the creature on page
107 of this field guide-the Kalanoro, a small aggressive hairy hominoid
said to live on Madagascar. When shown these depictions, the Baku
eyewitnesses instantly identified the animal they call the Doudo or
Dodu.
CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
Fielding the
Storm
Field
Worthy
Errata
New Primate
Discoveries
The Hunt for Unknown
Hominoids
INTRODUCTION
A Family
Matter
All Together
Now
The Lumping
Problem
Abominable
Rosters
A New Classification
System
1. Neo
Giant
2. True
Giant
3. Marked
Hominid
4.
Neandertaloid
5.
Erectus Hominid
6. Proto
Pygmy
7.
Unknown Pongid
8. Giant
Monkey
9.
Merbeing
NORTH AMERICA
LATIN AMERICA
EUROPE
AFRICA
ASIA
OCEANIA
AFTERWORD
Science and the
Sasquatch
All the
Evidence
Blunders, Hoaxes, and Hairy
People
Cultural
Transformations
Hiding in Plain
Sight
New
Primates
Best
Bets
If You Should See
One
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CASE SOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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What
they're
saying...
"The thousands
of worldwide sightings of unclassified bipedal primates, including the
Yeti, may be confusing because these sightings entail more than one
species. This field guide attempts to sort out the different creatures,
coming up with a classification of eight possible mystery primates. But
this book makes no real attempt to persuade skeptics of the existence
of any of them. It's sort of speculative taxonomy, but I
think it is one of the most useful texts in the ongoing controversy
over Bigfoot."
--
Kevin Kelly, Whole Earth Review
"If only one of these creatures is verified by naturalists, it would be
a biological sensation...The book is well-researched with a good
bibliography."
--
William Corliss, Science Frontiers
"This book looks like any other field guide you might pick up. It has
drawings, maps, tracks, descriptions of the organisms, and the details
of the most prominent sightings or evidence....Anyone interested in
folk zoology - especially anyone interested in how legends and animal
lore intersect with modern scientific research - would find this to be
an intriguing volume....It is an extensive...catalog of all the
variations on the 'mystery primate' theme organized geographically and
annotated extensively."
-- Andrew
J. Petto, Reports of the National Center for Science Education
"...a remarkable acheivement...It is a bold attempt to bring some order
to a world-wide mystery, and will stand as a seminal work in years to
come."
--
Bufo Calvin's Weird World
"...an intellient, absorbing overview, taking material that is
certainly controversial--and, to some downright outlandish--and making
surprising sense of it."
-- Jerome Clark,
author of Unexplained!
"A very useful resource book describing the many unknown primate-like
animals scattered to the four corners of the globe."
-- Fortean
Times
"...this book gives excellent drawings based on eyewitness descriptions
of a wide variety of hairy humanoids from all continents."
-- Magonia
". . . a new kind of wildlife-viewing experience
. . . the book addresses a gaping hole in the field of
primatology."
-- Joe
Bob Report
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