Illustration of the pé de garrafa by an unknown artist.
The pé de garrafa (Portuguese: "bottle foot"[1]), also called the kubê-rop and the pelobo, is a cryptid primate reported from the Brazilian Amazon. It is described as a 5-foot humanlike ape with long hair, black skin, a white navel, a horn on its forehead, large hands and no feet. It is said to leave tracks similar to those made by pressing the base of a bottle into the ground. The tracks are regularly spaced, exactly aligned, and avoid obstacles. It is also said to stare intently, as if to hypnotise, and to roar loudly.[1][2]
David Oren has suggested that the similar bottle-like tracks left by the mapinguari are the imprints of a giant sloths powerful tail mistakenly identified as footprints,[3] but Dale A. Drinnon writes that the pé de garrafa has nothing to do with the mapinguari.[4]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eberhart, George M. (2002) Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology, ABC-CLIO, Inc., ISBN 1576072835
- ↑ Heuvelmans, Bernard (1955) On the Track of Unknown Animals, Routledge, ISBN 978-1138977525
- ↑ Shuker, Karl P. N. (2016) Still In Search Of Prehistoric Survivors: The Creatures That Time Forgot?, Coachwhip Publications, ISBN 978-1616463908
- ↑ Drinnon, Dale A. "Revised Checklist of Cryptozoological Creatures," CFZ Yearbook (2010)