Cryptozoology!, Are these animals fact or fiction?

(I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place.)Cryptozoology is my favorite things to study about besides mythology.It may scare the stuff out of me sometimes but i get over it.Though the chupracabra is still kinda creepy to me though since the picture I saw of it was a creepy red-eyed monkey.My favorite cryptids are lake/sea serpants and The Beast Of Gévaudan also other canid cryptids.I also think the Hyenas in Mississippi case is intersting.My favorite cryptid show is Animal X but I don't think it comes on anymore but I also watch monster quest.My favorite cryptid website is cryptomundo which has every cryptid from alien big cats to the yeti.So what do you guys think of some of these phenomenanas?Do you really think Hyenas are roaming Mississippi?What cases do you guys find interesting?


http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ms-hyena/(Here is the footage of supposedly a hyena walking across the grass in Mississippi.Theres also other animal footage to compare it to.)

I don't really understand Cryptozoology but that my dear...Looks like my dog..A lot like my dog..Also, where is proof that that image is, In face, in mississippi? 'Cause that could be Africa just as easily...No trees that could prove location are shown, just grass which is yellow so it could be either place...>.>

I don't believe in some of the stuff. Like Hyenas in Mississippi seems kinda random to me. XD But you never really do know! I believe there are LOADS of strange animals out there, that have been glimpsed. I used to watch Animal X (the older version, not the newer one...) and they had amazingly creepy things on there. Some were far fetched, but a lot were believable. o.o

As for the vid, yeah, there is no proof that it's Missippi, but why would they randomly choose that state to say, "Hey, Hyenas! 8D" And... That looked like the short body and longer neck of a hynea from my standpoint, for the record. I don't think they would survive very well in Mississippi, but... XD

They scientifically proved about 20 pictures, just like the one you showed, to be wolves with 'Mange'. (Sometimes dogs.) The disease in wolves makes them look a lot like 'hyenas'. I watched a handful of discovery programs on the topic.

Hyenas in Mississippi? Rubbish >.>

What we should be focusing on are Thylacines. -Is so gonna go to Australia to look for some-

Kyle -

Thylacines.. er.. a little far fetched.. if you hope to find one your gunna be disappointed. The Tassie tiger has been extinct for some sixty years now - and.. well, I -live- in bush-land Australia, and have never glimpsed head nor tail of one.

Now, they are attempting to create one through genetic modification... but thats a total other story.

Imp I realize that a lot of people don't believe in the fact that a small population could still exsist, especially those that actuallylive in the areas they have reportedly been seen at. BUt I hardly see it as any more far fetched than bigfoot, the loch ness monster, bunyips etc. Also extinct creatures have been knwon to be rediscovered, such as the coelocanth was thought extinct up until someone actually caught one and they found out a tribe near the coat of Africa have been catching them for hundreds of years. Just because people believe themselves to have killed them all in the wild with the last one dieing in captivity doesn't necessarily mean it's true, after all unless they are tagged you can't really track any animal.

So do I believe in the honesty of eyewitnesses? Yeah I do. Are they always the most reliable people in the world? No they aren't. Do I believe in the possibility of an extinct species still being alive? Yeah, always have always will.

So the question is do I think I could find a Tasamanian tiger or that one ould be found at all? Yeah I do :3

I believe a small group still live. Small enough to hide, and probably not growing very much if at all.

Guys remember that fish that people thought were extinct, but they found one (was it the Galapagos Islands..?)? Remember those islands they found a few years ago, with new species? I don't think humans can ever know -for sure- if something's extinct or not, as long as there are places to hide.

This post has been edited by Ashe on Jun 26 2008, 12:28 PM

That fish would be a coelocanth Ashe X3

I can never spell it so I didn't even try. XD

All I have to say is, Ky has a point. Black-footed ferrets were thought to be extinct until a small group was discovered. Same with red wolves. ^^

They're trying to recreat the Taz? owo They're doing that with the Quagga. And it's very successful, too. ^^

Er.. What is it..Like only 2% of all the creatures they believe exsists (on earth that is) has been found. A new species is found like..Every day..Something like that.. *goes to look*

confused???? no clue what they are????

Yeeaah... Do remember that they were supposed to be extinct some 60 years ago, yet a hunter shot one less than 20 years ago. They've been filmed, spotted, and they've found their tracks. Yet to find "scientific proof of a living one" (the one shot doesn't count, as it was then dead).. but what does that mean? I've seen those films.. they look damned good to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwOMoC40q6k
Before you say "dog with mange", compare the size of the eyes to it's skull when it looks up at you.

Here's another one, well after "60 years ago".. Yeah, looks like a dog.. it's tail is straight though, not like a dog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUM4B2B3SC4

Unfortunately, I can't find the one I really want to show (they dont have it on youtube), one was in the ditch of the road, then ran off, they almost hit it with their car. Beyond reasonable doubt, for me.

Austirallia's a big place. Why can't 100 live there? Heck, there were 50k+ Okapi in the jungle in Africa... I mean.. geez.. the Okapi was a MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE for pete's sake. You know, didn't exist and all that.

However, looking at the film of that creature.. just looks like a dog with a short tail to me.

Honestly, and it's not even supposed to live in the mainland, guys--thylacines can't compete against dingoes, who breed faster, but in Tasmania they have a good shot. Bushland is thick, and just because one person who has lived there all their life hasn't seen one doesn't mean they don't exist. :/

However, the worst bit is the lack of a funded, scientifically thorough biological survey, similar to the kind that's being undertaken in the oceans--called the global census project, I think. Most of the people who DO go out looking for them don't truly know what they're looking for, and the value of what they actually find...Ah well.

Honestly, I'm neutral on the 'tiger, it's a highly likely animal in my opinion, however, I'd be concerned about the contagious facial carcinoma that's rife among their more mundane cousins, the tassie devils. :S If there is only a small, isolated population, that kind of thing could wipe it out before we could ever find it.