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Blue tigers, king cheetahs, black cougars, spotted lions... water leopards, rainbow jaguars, transcaucasian demon cats, mexican onzas, surviving saber-tooths, feline mega-marsupials, and more. Mystery Cats of the World Revisited investigates the breadth and depth of the mystery cat phenomenon around the world. What are these enigmatic cat-like animals that have been glimpsed in wild and lonely areas of the world? Are they exotic wild animals that have escaped from captivity, or just common creatures improperly observed? Or could some be genuinely elusive cat forms still unknown to science or supposedly long extinct? According to scientific conventions, these mystery cats cannot exist, but they have attracted increasing attention from natural historians and the public worldwide. This fully illustrated work is an updated, greatly-expanded edition of Karl Shuker's very first book, Mystery Cats of the World, a classic of the cryptozoological literature, now highly sought after by collectors and lauded by cryptozoologists and mainstream zoologists alike for its scrupulously scientific, objective analyses. This new edition examines many new mystery cats reports as well as revisits those previously featured in the original 1989 edition. As such, it remains the only indisputably definitive work on mystery cats in existence.

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What reviewers said about the first edition of this book: Let me say immediately that this is one of the most fascinating books that I have read for many a long day. The author is not a sentimental mythologist but a hard headed zoologist and a notable authority on cryptozoology. -- Felid geneticist Roy Robinson, Cats Karl Shuker... surveys the world for reports of undescribed cat-like animals, turning up a remarkable array. It is a fascinating list, made immeasurably more authoritative by the author's calm approach... --Mammalogist Colin P. Groves, Cryptozoology A book for lovers of the fantastic, for travellers, and for reference libraries. -- Nobel Prize winning novelist Doris Lessing, Daily Telegraph

This book is described as a revision and update of the author's earlier book, Mystery Cats of the World, published in 1989, but in many respects this volume is an entirely new work...Shuker analyses reports of these and other anomalous creatures in great detail, examining the likelihood of hybrids, mutations, survivals of believed-extinct populations, and completely new species previously unknown to science...It is worth pointing out at this time, that this is a very serious and rather specialist book. It is not a compendium of tales about 'weird animals', although it contains many fascinating stories from the indigenous peoples of many countries, as well as accounts from zoologists, explorers, anthropologists, hunters and colonial officials. It is a serious zoological monograph. But Shuker... is a writer who can explain this complex topic clearly...In his final thoughts the author makes an important point. Although the discovery of a new species through cryptozoological research would be a triumph, he suggests that cryptozoology is capable of an even greater achievement, preventing a species from becoming extinct before its existence is even formally recognised by science. - John Rimmer, Magonia What reviewers said about the first edition of this book: Let me say immediately that this is one of the most fascinating books that I have read for many a long day. The author is not a sentimental mythologist but a hard headed zoologist and a notable authority on cryptozoology. - Felid geneticist Roy Robinson, Cats Karl Shuker... surveys the world for reports of undescribed cat-like animals, turning up a remarkable array. It is a fascinating list, made immeasurably more authoritative by the author's calm approach... -Mammalogist Colin P. Groves, Cryptozoology A book for lovers of the fantastic, for travellers, and for reference libraries. - Nobel Prize winning novelist Doris Lessing, Daily Telegraph

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"Dr. Karl P.N. Shuker is an internationally recognized zoologist with expertise in cryptozoology, animal mythology, and wildlife superlatives. He obtained a BSc Honors 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.), and works as a freelance zoological consultant and writer, living in the West Midlands, England. The author of 32 books and countless articles, Dr. Shuker is also the life sciences consultant for ""Guinness World Records,"" has acted as a consultant and/or contributor for many other publications and TV shows, and has travelled throughout the world during the course of his researches. He is a Scientific Fellow of the prestigious Zoological Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, a Member of the Centre for Fortean Zoology and other wildlife-related organizations, and is also a Member of the Society of Authors."

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