Kalanoro, Yeti and Lux
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 10th, 2007
Images of hairy hominoids are popping up in all sorts of places.
Harry Trumbore’s drawing (above) of Africa’s kalanoro, from The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, inspired Peter Loh’s Kalanoro (below) in the Crypto-Man Comix, written by Scott Marlowe.
Wildlife artist Richard Klyver, who spent seven years in Africa, has produced a new series of high-quality tee-shirts. His first one is an excellently accurate drawing of what the Abominable Snowman or Yeti probably looks like, as shown above.
If you want to buy one or more of these limited edition tee-shirts (of which $2.50 is being donated to my research and museum), please remit your funds directly to Mr. Klyver via PayPal, at windigo2 {@} verizon.net. The cost is $20/shirt, which includes domestic postage, for one shirt (sizes S, M, L, XL), with the Abominable Snowman on it. Be sure to include your name and shipping address with your payment. Write him directly via email if you want to find out how to send him a check or money order.
Additionally, I just received a party invitation with a beautifully-designed Bigfoot image on the cover, from the parents of soon-to-be one-year-old Lux (who, of course, is not a Bigfoot but a beloved human child). The card is to a gathering in celebration of Lux’s birth day in the Bay Area. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend, but the card will be carefully saved as another significant pop culture example of hominology in modern America.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
