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Karl Shuker


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Dr. Karl P.N. Shuker BSc PhD FRES FZS is a zoologist who is internationally recognised as a world expert in cryptozoology (the scientific investigation of mystery animals whose existence or identity has yet to be formally ascertained), as well as in animal mythology and allied subjects relating to wildlife anomalies and inexplicabilia. He obtained a BSc (Honours) degree in pure zoology at the University of Leeds (U.K.), and a PhD in zoology and comparative physiology at the University of Birmingham (U.K.). He is now a freelance zoological consultant and writer, living in the West Midlands, England.

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SPOTTING A SPOTTED BUSHBUCK IN LIBERIA

 Atypically-patterned male northern bushbuck in Senegal (© Lucy Keith-Diagne/Wikipedia– CC BY 4.0 licence )

Bushbucks are the smallest members of thespiral-horned African antelope group, which also include the kudus, nyalas,sitatunga, elands, and bongo. Traditionally, just a single bushbuck species hasbeen recognized, Tragelaphus scriptus,albeit with numerous subspecies (some of which long a

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