Comments on: Dire Wolves, Shunka Warak’ins, and Waheelas

By: curious86

curious86 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:33:35 +0000

No way, Mr. Coleman! When I saw that dog carcass on TV, I knew immediately that this was no ordinary looking dog. It had an oddly shaped, short muzzle, large eyes, and it didn’t seem to resemble any known breed I had ever seen, but what clinched it was the unusual muzzle. I have seen dead dogs before, even up close, but this “dog” completely blew me away, I mean either it’s a new hybrid mix or the camera’s playing tricks.

By: lance_foster

lance_foster — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:35:56 +0000

Talk about convergence of synchronocities! Heard about the Shunka Warak’in being found in the Idaho State Museum as I thought it might.

Glad somebody got a response from them. They sure didn’t respond to my inquiries way back last summer.

Glad you posted about it on your website. The head does look very much like a black wolf though.

PS. “Amarok” is just Inupiat/Inuit (”Eskimo”) for “wolf”

By: thatericn

thatericn — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:38:26 +0000

Hello all -

Concerning the “fearful” actions of the Monster Quest crew, in taking shelter in the cabin, all I can say is that if I’m in a situation where someone or something is heaving stones at me, I’d prefer to have a roof over my head.

Assume that they were not being confronted by an 8-foot-tall, 500 lb. Pleistocene-holdover living fossil, but instead by a more mundane 6-foot-tall, 200 lb. Homo Sapiens teenager out to spook the “tourists.” I still would hate the idea of getting beaned in the head by a well-thrown, baseball-sized rock.

Now, maybe if I was wearing catcher’s gear…

By: serpent_seeker

serpent_seeker — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:19:21 +0000

Boy, if those mutant dogs exist and are very large than any dog or wolf i hope the hunters are well prepared.

By: crypto_randz

crypto_randz — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:14:07 +0000

This episode of monster quest was a good one , mystery really surrounds the sightings of mutant dogs i dont really have an opinion if there is strange mutant dogs out there boy i would like to see a clear good picture of one. As you saw in the show the scientists are working hard to prove they exist.

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:37:07 +0000

There IS good evidence for Smilodons being pack animals- namely, that many skeletons have been found with injuries or diseases that should have prevented them from finding food themselves, yet seem to have lived for quite some time in a debilitated condition, evidence that they were cared for by others. I’m not saying that this means that Dire Wolves were, I simply don’t know much about them, but it’s my understanding that the modern scientific consensus is that the Sabre-Tooths did.

The Shunka Warak’in interests me greatly, and I’d love to hear more about the Waheena and Amarok, as I had not previously heard of them. Keep up the good work.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:34:20 +0000

Dmoore—

I don’t necessarily think that the couple was stupid—they simply encountered something that scared them so much that they could not get out of bed. Not everyone acts like you want them to act.
My opinion, which nobody asked for.

Same for the “Sasquatch” episode. You can’t really know what you would have done in that situation. You were not there. Like I said once before, FEAR, particularly of the unknown, is a great motivator.

I simply refuse to “judge” those people. I probably would have both peed in my pants AND soiled myself. Plus fainted.

I’m not saying you may not have a point, or that you would not acted the way you say you would have—it’s just that not everybody would have done it like you.

Again, my opinion.

By: DWA

DWA — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:11:14 +0000

All I’ll say is I’m rooting for the waheela.

By: Robtastic1

Robtastic1 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:10:17 +0000

I think it really hurts eyewitness cases when that one lady says what she saw was nothing like a dog and it had huge eyes and was like nothing she’s ever seen before, then in the next scene she say’s the dead animal is definatly what she saw, and when it shows the “creature” its obviously a damn dog. probably a chow mix. Not at all the mental picture you when you hear her explain this monster creature in her yard. It shows how the average person knows nothing about animals and can easily mistake a normal animal for somthing completely different. This lady saw a dog in broad daylight 10 feet away and she thought it was a monster. Ridiculous.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:45:58 +0000

Well Mystery Man, while we’re extending our minds back into time with appreciation of nature’s fullness, there are others that are looking into the future. We’ll never have a time machine in a practical sense, but as our understanding of how our genetics operate the likelihood that a lost landscape,particularly one as recent as the Pleistocene, and will work towards re-creating some of those incredible expressions of adaptation, and I hope in the mean time that those good folks at the ReWilding Institute have made progress in re-patching the tattered remains of our once complete natural systems. Seems like a pipe dream now, but our capacity to imagine the future and make it happen has never been greater, shows no sign of levelling off, and if we can survive our short-sighted focus on the immediate, maybe one day we will once again see the diversity and intricate complexity that is the hallmark of a truely productive and intact world.