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Reconstruction of Tsaidamotherium by TORIMORRIS on DeviantArt.
The Tibetan unicorn was a cryptid unicorn reported from Tibet. It was said to have had a "red top and a white belly", and had two horns, one much larger than the other. Individuals were said to have been captured and taken to Samarkand on multiple occasions, and it was allegedly reported sporadically until the end of the 19th Century.[1]
Dale A. Drinnon notes that the Tibetan unicorn's similarity to Tsaidamotherium, a prehistoric bovid with unevenly-sized horns, is too striking to be a coincidence. He also suggests that the Chinese qilin was based on reports of the Tibetan unicorn, and thus on Tsaidamotherium. According to Drinnon, these animals "would ordinarily graze on the high plateaux but they would also go up or down mountainsides as necessary." Drinnon believes the animal went extinct sometime in the early 20th Century.[1]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Drinnon, Dale A. Frontiers of Zoology: Three Kinds of Unicorns frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com [Accessed 8 February 2019]