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Jacoby with the Mylodon statue at the Cueva del Milodon.
Charlie Jacoby is a British writer, editor, broadcaster, and cryptozoologist noted for his modern investigations of the Patagonian ground sloth in Argentina. He is a grandson of Hesketh Prichard, who led a Daily Express expedition to Patagonia in search of the Mylodon in 1900.[1]
In 2001, Jacoby and Harvey Carruthers led an expedition to Argentina to search for evidence of a live ground sloth on the hundred-year anniversary of Prichard's expedition. Jacoby's expedition retraced the route of the first one,[1] but returned equally empty-handed.[2] Jacoby wrote in 2001 that "there is so much space in the Patagonian forests. Surely there's still a pocket where our creature may still live?"[2] In 2005, he returned to Patagonia to work as an expert advisor for a Digging for the Truth investigation, which concluded that a species of Mylodon could still exist in Patagonia.[3][4] Jacoby's interest in the subject also extends to mapinguari reports from the Amazon Rainforest.[5]
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shuker, Karl P. N. (2010) Karl Shuker's Alien Zoo: From the Pages of Fortean Times, CFZ Press, ISBN 978-1-905723-62-1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jacoby, Charlie "Giant Sloth," Daily Express (8 February 2001)
- ↑ "Giants of Patagonia". Digging for the Truth: Series 2, Episode 11 (10 April 2006)
- ↑ Shuker, Karl P. N. (2016) Still In Search Of Prehistoric Survivors: The Creatures That Time Forgot?, Coachwhip Publications, ISBN 978-1616463908
- ↑ Jacoby, Charlie Charlie Jacoby's homepage charliejacoby.com [Accessed 12 June 2020]