Cadborosaurus willsi
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| "Cadborosaurus" carcass, photographed in October, 1937. |
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| Creature | |
| Name: | Cadborosaurus willsi |
| AKA: | Caddy |
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| Grouping: | Cryptid |
| Sub Grouping: | Sea monster |
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| Country: | United States |
| Region: | Pacific Coast |
| Habitat: | Sea |
| Status: | Unconfirmed |
"Cadborosaurus willsi", nicknamed "Caddy", is the name given to a sea serpent reported to be living on the Pacific Coast of North America. Its name is derived from Cadboro Bay in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Greek root word "sauros" meaning lizard or reptile. The animal is similar in form and behavior to various popularly named lake monsters such as "Ogopogo" of deep interior lakes of British Columbia and to the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland.
There have been more than 300 sightings during the past 200 years, including San Francisco Bay, California and Deep Cove in Saanich Inlet, B. C., Supporters of the creature have reported identifying breeding sites in the Strait of Georgia, B. C.[citation needed]
Cadborosaurus willsi resembles a serpent with vertical coils or humps in tandem behind the horse-like head and long neck, a pair of small elevational front flippers, and a pair of large webbed hind flippers fused to form a large fan-like tail region that provides powerful forward-swimming propulsion. Through a process of locomotory body transformation, the long slender body can be doubled up into rigid vertical humps that effectively reduce friction of the snakelike body surface with the water and enable the animal to attain recorded swimming speeds of more than 40 km/h at the surface.[citation needed]
Zoological reality of the species has been suggested by the original specimen-based description in a refereed scientific journal in which the type juvenile specimen is represented by 3 different close-up quality photographs (in the B. C. Provincial Archives in Victoria), in which at least three new-born relatively tiny precocial "baby" specimens have been independently held by at least three pairs of human captors during the past 40 years, and by more than 100 documented sightings, photographs, sonar images, and sketches of live animals made independently at predicted times and places, subsequent to the original description in 1995 and continuing to the present.[citation needed]
[edit] Sources
- Bousfield, Edward L. & Leblond Paul H. (2000). Cadborosaurus: Survivor from the Deep. Heritage House Publishing.
- Bousfield, E. L., & P. H. LeBlond. 1995. "An account of Cadborosaurus willsi, new genus, new species, a large aquatic reptile from the Pacific coast of North America". Amphipacifica Vol 1 Suppl. 1: pp. 1-25, 19 figs.
- Coleman, Loren and Clark, Jerome. Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature with Jerome Clark (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1999, ISBN 0-684-85602-6).
- Jupp, Ursula. (1988, reprinted 1993). Cadboro: A Ship, A Bay, A Sea-Monster. Jay Editions.
