Comments on: Nessie as Elephant Theory Shortsighted

By: Tabitca

Tabitca — Wed, 17 May 2006 13:39:24 +0000

thanks Loren. They keep churning it out though, old or not, rather than face the truth that there is something in the Loch.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Wed, 17 May 2006 13:25:51 +0000

The media has a short memory. Fortean Times discussed one skeptic’s 1970s speculations, based on photos of swimming elephants in Sri Lanka, as I recall, that elephants were responsible for the Loch Ness sightings.

Old news, all around.

By: Tabitca

Tabitca — Wed, 17 May 2006 13:06:13 +0000

This theory was first published in 1992 in a journal/Bulletin of radiology, in an article written by Paul Goddard. It was dismissed as nonsense then. But others like myself searched for reports of lost or missing elephants, just in case one had landed up at the Loch but nothing had ever been reported.

The Loch is too cold to attract many elephants

Plus there aren’t enough big trees for them to build their nests LOL

By: dewhurst

dewhurst — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:42:04 +0000

The story was featured in the SUN (Britains biggest selling newspaper with a circulation of 3 million) and was a centre page feature. I got a chuckle out of the story and could imagine that some people may well have been able to mistake a swimming Elephant for Nessie. But any one who did see an Elephant swimming in the Loch must have wondered why it was chained to a man in a top hat wearing stilts whilst juggling with three balls and throwing buckets of confetti over anyone who got near enough.

An interesting story and one of the most entertaining I have heard for years. You could not make this up!

By: Ranatemporaria

Ranatemporaria — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:45:33 +0000

BBC Scotland have picked up on the same quotes and run a story.

By: Ranatemporaria

Ranatemporaria — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:16:32 +0000

Ok, so the likely hood of an elephant accounting for all subsequent sightings post 1933 is highly unlikely without a herd of being fully noticed around the shores. But surely credit should be given to this explanation for any sightings that occurred in or around the time that elephants were known to be in the area? I for one would be exited at seeing something like that in the above picture in the loch! Secondly I beg to differ that the chances of a prehistoric marine reptile seining unchanged for millennia, with maintained sustainable populations of 50-500 the numbers required to maintain safe (genetic variance (Franklin 1980)), is more likely than someone once seeing a elephant and getting over exited! As shown recently new species crop up all the time surly a new un-discovered species is the most likely explanation for this and many other notorious lake cryptids?!

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:02:18 +0000

Oh, by the way, there are even others that are more likely.

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:00:32 +0000

:^]…HAHAHA!!

I have a list of 10 more likely explanations, in order:

1:A long necked seal

2:A plesiosaur

3:A tanystropheid

4:A large cormorant

5:A log

6:An upside-down boat

7:Too much beer

8:King Kong

9:A really fat eel

10:Uhhh, Tax Breaks for the Rich? (seriously, they’re big enough)

By: cradossk

cradossk — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:57:44 +0000

Check out this little baby.

What would you say that was? without knowing it was a swimming elephant… i might guess it was a swimming elephant, but i also might guess its some kinda crazy critter lurking around the rivers

It is possible i guess… you have to remember that elephants arent the normal fauna you might expect to see in a scottish loch.

By: Ranatemporaria

Ranatemporaria — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:24:02 +0000

I googled elephant swimming on the image search and there was some interesting pics one in particular on the web site. This is a pic from quite short range. I reckon personally, that if there was a lone elephant swimming in the loch with no other signs of a circus around in this exact position there is a chance it could be mistaken for a long necked monster. Slim chance I know, but so is the chance of the existence of many cryptids but it doesn’t stop us all looking and believing! Don’t be so quick to poo poo even the most unlikely occurrences!