Mitla (cryptid)

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Mitla
Creature
Name: Mitla
Classification
Grouping: Cryptid
Sub grouping: mammal
Data
Country: Bolivia
Status: Undiscovered

The Mitla also know as Fawcett's Zorro is described as a cat-like dog or canid-looking felid from the rainforest in Bolivia. The report comes from Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett who spent time in Bolivia between 1906-1914. Jeremy Mallinson, the director of Jersey Zoo searched for the Mitla in 1960.

The Mitla may be a canine or a genus of cat similar to the Jaguarundi. Some authors suspect that it is feline, but more likely it is a dog, and a relative of the Short-eared Dog. Dr. Karl Shuker described it as a mysterious dog with feline-like behavior.

Place, where Lieutenant Colonel Fawcett saw mitla be situated in forests eastern of Cuzco region near to Madidi jungle (established in 1995 to range Bolivian National Park), (Exploration Fawcett, 1953). But there live also Atelocynus microtis, some in according writers as mitla, but we are not totally convinced, because mitla is almost twice larger and more black. It is probably some evolutional adaptation, how specific fossa or yaguarundi.


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  • Mystery Cats of the World (1989), Robert Hale, ISBN 0-7090-3706-6
  • The Beasts That Hide From Man (2003), Paraview, ISBN 1-931044-64-3
  • Extraordinary Animals Revisited (2007), CFZ Press, ISBN 1-905723-17-1
  • Bolivian Exploration, 1913-1914 P. H. Fawcett. The Geographical Journal, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Mar.,1915), pp. 219-228 doi:10.2307/1779796
  • Exploration Fawcett. P.H. Fawcett, Brian Fawcett. 1953. Phoenix Press; New Ed edition. (December 31, 2001). 368 pages. ISBN-10: 1842124684
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