Megalodon; not even he could stomach Trump! (As for a serious answer, no clue as yet!)
Zoochat Wildlife Quiz
- Thread starter German Zoo World
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Don't worry. The presidential candidate was before Trump.
I have just found a satirical report that John McCain was planning to name a dead Bigfoot corpse from Georgia as his vice presidential running mate!
Sorry, it's not that one. Did John McCain have his Bigfoot corpse with oven chips?
The Republican candidate was James G. Blaine
Hmm! Don’t think I can make a strong cryptozoological case for a plumed knight, a mugwump or even a half-breed.
You've got the answer there. Mugwumps preferred the Democrat candidate, Grover Cleveland. The mugwump is also the name of a Canadian lake monster, also called Old Tessie or the Monster of Lake Temiscamingue.
It's your go.
It's your go.
The Natural History Museum contains a skull which is the type specimen of Delphinapterus kingi. Why was it not thought to be an ordinary Beluga?
Was the skull much larger than that of other beluga skulls?
Nothing odd about its morphology.
Are we allowed to use the Internet to find the answer if we don’t know it? I was able to find a reference.
Go ahead!
1883 - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Page 505 says it was allegedly procured from the coast of New Holland (Australia).
Page 505 says it was allegedly procured from the coast of New Holland (Australia).
Indeed, which was why I suggested that if this location was correct, it might have a connection with a reputed cryptid. Your turn to set a question...
I’m struggling to quickly think of a question, so one of you can set one instead.
Take your time; I’m happy to see a novel question setter...
A species of cryptic Mauritian bird was for some time seriously proposed to be the largest known non-palaeognath bird in the world. Who initially described this bird?
Leguat?
Yes, your turn.
Going back to the Beluga; I suggested its link to a cryptid reported in the first issue of Cryptozoology; it was eventually identified as a Dugong, but what was the very short native name that it was given?