Sabtu, 15 Juni 2013

13 Most Mysterious Animals In The World

In this world once discovered many strange creatures and mysterious intriguing not only among scientists, but also ordinary people, to see, learn, and understand it. But not infrequently, since the emergence of the creatures so rare that only a handful of people can be seen, or because it is very dangerous, these creatures end up just being a complementary literature courses or just became a legend told by word of mouth. Here are just 13 of these strange creatures and mysterious which data is picked from various sources.

 
1. Ahool



This animal shaped like a bat, like a monkey-headed, big-eyed and black, and her dark-gray fur. Body can be as big as one year old son with a wingspan can reach 10 feet (3 meters). This animal was first seen by Dr.Ernest Bartels in 1925 when walking along Mount Salak, West Java. At that time Ernest was exploring waterfalls on the slopes of the mountain, and suddenly a giant bat swooped over his head.

In 1927, around 11:30 pm, when Ernest Bartels lying on her bed in a hut near the river Tjidjengkol, West Java, he heard a strange noise from the cabin. The voice says "Ahool ... Ahool ...". Ernest took the torch and checked into the origin of the sound, and saw a giant bat which he saw in 1925. That's why this animal called Ahool.

2. Agogwe




This creature was first known to exist in about 1900 by Captain William Hitchens, but only made public in 1937. William found this creature in East Africa. According to him, Agogwe shaped like a man and walk away, but smallish like dwarves, as well as reddish hairy all over his body. William said, Agogwe he saw resembled a man, but only 4 feet tall. In 1938, a man named Cuthbert Burgoyne also viewed Agogwe in East Africa. There is a theory which states that if Agogwe may include gracile australopithecine species, one species of primate that ever lived in Africa, but has been extinct since thousands of years ago.

3. Andean wolf



These animals can be rarely seen, but is known to often wander around the Arctic Ocean and in North America. Animals is unique, because only this type only in a dog or wolf species are not hairy, so her skin slippery. But the funny thing is, at the head and tail of this beast would grow yellow fur.

4. Cats Fox 



The animal was found a group of scientists who are members of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 2003 while conducting research in the area KMNP, Borneo, but only published in 2005. This animal like a fox, but the red-skinned, and larger than a cat. Interestingly, these animals also have a pair of rear legs are longer than its front legs, and has a long muscular tail. Once published, a scene straight world and preach the media as the most important findings in the last century, because of the findings of a new species last occurred in 1895 when in the jungles of Borneo scientists also discovered a type of mongoose mongoose carnivore, named melogale everetti or Borneo ferret badger.

5. Thylacine
 


Animals named cynocephalus Latin Thylacinus a modern carnivorous marsupials largest ever known. Considered as the tiger, because his back striped like tigers generally. But some are calling it a wolf, because the shape of his head is like a wolf. Animals that live in the continent of Australia and Papua island was declared extinct in the 20th century. In Australia, these animals became extinct thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans to the continent's kangaroo, but had survived on the island of Tasmania along with several other endemic species, including the Tasmanian Devil. It sebabanya behind Tasmania says there is an additional name. The fossils were found of this animal species indicate that he lived around the Miocene.

6. Tsuchinoko



The animal was reportedly spotted in several areas of Japan, except for Hokkaido and Ryukku Islands. Even the name is derived from the population Tsuchinoko Kansai region which includes Kyoto, Mie, Nara, and Shikoku which means 'animal'. In the Kanto region, this animal called bachihebi. Tsuchinoko shaped like a snake, but paunchy like bottles atu bowling pin, and a small tail like a rat's tail. But until now the existence of the animal has never been proven (cryptid), and also have never been arrested. Allegedly, this is because in addition, felt fear, these animals also fled when the beholder. Some local governments in Japan had to lure money up to 100 million yen to anyone who can catch the animal, but to no avail.

7. Yeti



Similar to Bigfoot, appearing in the Himalayan region. For residents around the forest in the mountainous region, this creature is a forest ranger, and should not be hunted. Yeti or the Scary Snowman is a kind of humanoid large primates that inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet. Names Yeti and Meh-Teh are commonly used by people in the region, and is considered a historical stories and myths that are still mysterious. Nepalese people also call it bonmanche which means wild man or kanchanjuga rachyyas Kanchanjunga which means devil.

8. Mongolian Death Worm



These animals live in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia and greatly feared nation. Although the kind of worms, the animals can have up to 1.2 meters long, snakelike bodied, plump, red, and capable of killing prey, including humans, quickly and remotely. In the Mongol legend mentioned, if about to attack its prey, these animals will remove part of his body, and then opened her mouth wide, and spitting deadly poison that killed its prey. After that, the prey eaten. The Mongols called it the meaning khorkoi allghoi intestinal worms, because if viewed at a glance, this is like a giant worm intestine. Although this animal called the Mongolian Death Warm, scientists believe, this animal is not the kind of worms, because worms will not survive in the hot desert, dry, and barren. They believe, is a type of animal venomous snakes, but this hypothesis has not yet been proven accuracy.

9. Ogopogo



Sea monster similar to Nessie in Loch Ness. Difference was found in Lake Okanagan Ogopogo, Canada. Topics for discussion about the existence of this mysterious creature has been heard since 1850, where at the beginning of the year for the first Ogopogo reveal itself to tourists and locals.

Eyewitnesses who saw it said, this being big boned, dark-colored and has a long body shape. He emerged from the lake bottom to the water surface, then swim to the middle. This animal appears quite old, so the view can observe the figure and temperament, before finally returning to dive to the bottom of the lake. Initially, they thought they saw was a snake, but then they realized, that they see are different creatures, who eventually called Ogopogo.

10. Mokele-Mbembe



This animal is in the Congolese legends, African, who lived along the river. Even Mokele-mbembe name comes from the Lingala, one of the local tribal language, which means "something that resist the flow of the river". As the name implies, this animal is indeed dwell around the river. Even the western likens these animals as monsters who live in Lake Loch Ness.

Mokele-mbembe built like an elephant, but the long-necked. Tail and its head is small, and the body is brown-gray, so there are describing it like an animal that has been extinct sauropods. The animals eat the plants are large, and according to legend, the animal is usually looking for food in a river bend. Boha Village Community, one of the villages in the Congo, this being considered as intangible beings, though convinced of its existence.

11. Jersey Devil



This creature like a horse, but has a wide horns and wings shaped like bat wings. These creatures also have a hand, and standing on two legs. Creature also called the Leeds Devil is a legendary cryptid creatures that inhabit the Pine Barrens region in Southern New Jersey, United States. Although his identity remains mysterious, but in 1909 more than 1,000 people in 30 cities in America, especially around New Jersey, claimed to have seen it.

12. Mothman




Mothman moths human means, but Mothman more closely resembles some species of birds commonly depicted as a creature with wings and a tall man, red-eyed, sometimes appearing without the head with red eyes in the chest. Mothman is a well-known urban legend in Virginia, USA. As has been noted in a book called 'The Mothman Prophecies' by John A. Keel, a strange creature that is known to have had wings like a human body shape and gray. Mothman name itself is taken from the villain in the Batman comics.

13. Buru

 


15FT lizards and dark. Found in the Himalayas and is believed to have become extinct.
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