Cryptid Caracas Lion’s Roars Confirmed

There is news out of Caracas, Venezuela, of a mystery felid, being heard and evidence of its presence being found.

Roars from the unidentified feline have scared residents of a mountainous Caracas suburb and triggered a hunt for the capture of what neighbours are convinced is a lion.

But Venezuelan authorities, who have scoured on horseback the woods where the bellowing comes from, could only confirm the presence of some type of feline after finding the carcasses of small animals including a half-eaten armadillo.

“One of the people that saw this animal talks about a lion,” said Juan Fernandez, mayor of the affected Las Salias municipality, in an interview with local radio on Monday, September 3, 2007.

“We cannot say if (the animal) is a lion, a tiger, a puma or a little spotted cat,” he said.

As the media there notes, Venezuelan jungles and mountains are teeming with exotic fauna but encounters with dangerous wild animals are rare around the South American nation’s crowded capital that is typically clogged with noisy traffic.

In the wake of my recent posting on the use of the “circus train myth,” I’m not surprised by what the papers there mentioned next. To wit, local media reported two lions had escaped years ago from a nearby zoo, but Mayor Fernandez said the institution has denied any of the predators were missing.

Loren Coleman 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.

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