July 13, 2012

Profiling Hans Schomburgk

In a new post at his Shuker Nature blog, Karl Shuker begins:

“It’s often been said that good things come in small packages, and this is certainly true of the following cryptozoological case, in which the cryptid in question may be minuscule but is definitely no less memorable for that.

“The German explorer/naturalist/film-maker Hans Schomburgk (1880-1967) earned a lasting, well-deserved place in zoological and cryptozoological history by rediscovering on 13 June 1911 the pygmy hippopotamus Choeropsis liberiensis, alive and well in Liberia – where it had long been known to the native people as the nigbwe, yet had been ignored by scientists.”

But that – as Karl makes clear – barely scrapes the surface of the fascinating story of Schomburgk…

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