Comments on: Update: Chinese Lake Monsters

By: pgb7112000

pgb7112000 — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:05:11 +0000

there are fresh water lake seals in Lake Baikul in Siberia, but this is quite a distance from Tianchi Lake, plus I doubt seals are climbing to the top of a volcanic crater. Since there are only six specimens seen this is not a viable breeding population and points to the fact that these are probably just migrating birds/ducks. Cormorants are common in China and are known to be great underwater swimmers which would account for many witnesses testimony of these ‘monsters’ diving under the water and the possibility that these monsters have ‘wings’.

Look to the cormorant as your ‘monster’. Hopefully some irrational villagers don’t take it upon themselves to hunt these monsters just in case this is some unknown species.

By: Captain Avatar

Captain Avatar — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:27:14 +0000

This shows absolutely nothing of value.

By: Alligator

Alligator — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:37:33 +0000

Ducks swimming and diving. Before I believe its a plesiosaur like animal, they’ll have to provide photos that CLEARLY show a plesiosaur like animal. Sorry, this just doesn’t cut the mustard. The last video to come out of China was much more intriguing.

By: cryptohunter

cryptohunter — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:11:25 +0000

DUCKS!!!!!!!!!!

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:29:50 +0000

I am going to forgo any sort of discussion on the physics of ripple effects and the surface dynamics of water and just say that these photos could be just about anything. There is nothing to indicate anything out of the ordinary and in my humble opinion any assumption that these could be unknown monsters rather than the hundreds of other mundane things they could represent is speculative at best, serious wishful thinking at worst. To me, these sorts of inconclusive photos need a critical eye and I am reluctant to conclude that these are anything other that vague spots without any other evidence pointing to one explanation or the other. These pics could be anything.

By: Artist

Artist — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:34:20 +0000

“…we OTTER stop…”?
Hah! Love puns.

By: skeptik

skeptik — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:01:11 +0000

the last chinese lake monster was better

If these are really a new and not previously identified species, or a case of mistaken identity, then all data is welcome. This is not entertainment (primarily).

By: harhey

harhey — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:50:53 +0000

Why are the chinese afraid of six mandarin ducks????/

By: hlw

hlw — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:20:54 +0000

the third picture shows some kind of diving birds. ducks, comorants etc. It would be nice to see long necks and long bodies etc. but we have to be realistic. The surface pattern in almost all the pics show these to be animals of some size, duck size. The last picture is the worst, looks more like 6 chinese jets in a flyover, probably checking up on the ducks. I’d love to see a group of plesiosaurs, but before we expound on seeing things that aren’t there we otter stop and think it over.

By: mantis

mantis — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:32:27 +0000

No video, no scale, no telling.
Not interested (yet).
I’m betting the video won’t help any further.