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The tsere-yawá (Shuar: "marmoset tiger" or "monkey tiger") is a cryptid felid reported from Ecuador by Spanish cryptozoologist Angel Morant Forés.[1][2] It is described as "a one meter long semiaquatic cat which is said to hunt in packs of 8 to 10 individuals," and has brown fur. A man named Christian Chumbi claimed to have seen eight tsere-yawá at a distance of 15 meters in the River Yukipa.[1] It has also been described as "a kind of tiger".[3]
Its description is very similar to that of a bush dog in both appearance and behaviour. Karl Shuker suggests the tsere-yawá may be the small-eared dog or zorro (Atelocynus microtis), which resembles a cat and is semi-aquatic; or a species of otter.[4]
Similar cryptids[]
Other pack-hunting cryptid cats of South America include the jiukam-yawá of Ecuador, the larger waracabra tiger of Guyana, and the jungle wildcat of Peru.[4]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Forés, Angel Morant Virtual Institute of Cryptozoology "An Investigation Into Some Unidentified Ecuadorian Mammals" cryptozoo.pagesperso-orange.fr (12 October 1999) [Accessed 10 September 2018] — Wayback Machine
- ↑ Shuker, Karl P. N. (2010) Karl Shuker's Alien Zoo: From the Pages of Fortean Times, CFZ Press, ISBN 978-1-905723-62-1
- ↑ Bottasso, Juan (1986) Los Shuar y los Animales
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Shuker, Karl P. N. ShukerNature: THE WARRACABA TIGER AND OTHER SOUTH AMERICAN PACK-HUNTING MYSTERY CATS karlshuker.blogspot.com (12 April 2017) [Accessed 13 January 2019] — Wayback Machine