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Walter M. "Gerald" Russell (1911 — 1979) was an American naturalist and explorer who took part in the 1954 Daily Mail expedition, and the 1958 Slick-Johnson Expedition, in search of the yeti in Nepal. He was particularly interested in the small teh-lma, the spoor of which he was able to examine.[1]
In 1932, he had also accompanied his friend Ivan T. Sanderson on the Percy Sladen Expedition to West Africa, in the course of which both men allegedly sighted the olitiau and the mokele-mbembe. Russell confirmed Sanderson's account of the olitiau sighting, and the pair found in 1970 that their written and remembered accounts matched. However, Russell refused to give his own version of the mokele-mbembe sighting.[2] In 1937, he and Ruth Harkness captured a live giant panda, which became the first living specimen seen outside of China.[1]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Coleman, Loren & Clark, Jerome (1999) Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0684856025
- ↑ Heuvelmans, Bernard (1978) Les Derniers Dragons d'Afrique, Plon, ISBN 978-2259003872