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| Nessie explained. | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 11 2016, 12:39 PM (2,040 Views) | |
| the dark phoenix | Mar 11 2016, 12:39 PM Post #1 |
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Taking into account the Giant River otter of the Amazon as well as the extinct Enhydriodon, I believe Good-ol-nessie is actually the largest extant otter species today.![]() Yes I am aware my art sucks when I have no refs. Most other otters, even the sea otter still possess clawed hands with little webbing while the back legs of a sea otter and all limbs on a Amazon Giant otter are both similar to flippers. Both species are the largest so I think the larger a otter get's the more flipper-like the limps would be. Also otters show pretty long necks compared to other weasels. A large unknown otter spy hopping could be mistaken for a plesiosaur neck. Also they are social so multiple humps on the water could instead be a number of large otters traveling at the surface. So with this info in mind. I believe the Loch ness monster is in fact a undiscovered, heavily specialized otter species.... Not exactly like my picture but still some flippered, long neck and tailed otter. |
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| Furka | Mar 11 2016, 02:34 PM Post #2 |
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I don't think that body plan would really work. Otters swim mainly by moving their "lower half" of their body, so there wouldn't be much purpose in having a short stock body with such a long and thin tail (longer than any non arboral mustelid I must add) as you depicted. Plus most otter species prefer areas with less human disturbance as possible; is Loch Ness such a place ? |
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| Mathius Tyra | Mar 11 2016, 02:44 PM Post #3 |
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Like Furka said, highly aquatic otter will be more likely to increase it's lower half's ability to swim. I can see them become more of "seal-like" body plan is that about to happen. Also, otters are pursuit predator. Long neck like that won't make them any good and will slow them down as well. Plesiosaurs have body plan like that because they are ambush predator that mainly use their thin, long neck to sneak into fish's shoal without being noticed while its body swim steadily behind. |
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| Ignacio | Mar 11 2016, 02:46 PM Post #4 |
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I recently read something about Nessie being a giant catfish or giant eel. |
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| stargatedalek | Mar 11 2016, 02:56 PM Post #5 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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You're probably right, after all these stories about a neck rising from the water and being similar to a plesiosaur are all newer than the first hoaxes. The only accounts that are credible all describe something serpentine in the water, nothing that strange honestly. |
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| Luizo | Mar 11 2016, 03:08 PM Post #6 |
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first an Elephant and now a Otter? Good to clarify, I went to the river Orinoco, Amazons, I have seen otters, are quite large, but I have seen as they swim and do not swim like a plesiosaur, plus I read some time ago a man was bitten by '' Nessie '' add something to think boreal sharks forgot them. |
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| Ignacio | Mar 11 2016, 03:11 PM Post #7 |
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But aren't boreal sharks creatures of the deep? I think they feed of the carcasses of dead animals. Is there enough food in the lake to sustained a shark? Also, how long do those sharks live? Idk i find the shark option kind of unlikely.
Edited by Ignacio, Mar 11 2016, 03:13 PM.
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| Zoo Tycooner FR | Mar 11 2016, 03:12 PM Post #8 |
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Greenland Shark ? I doubt it's an otter , it's most likely a giant fish as Ignacio said . Edit :
Yes , they are .
The largest individuals may live about 200 years, making them among the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth. - Wikipedia Edited by Zoo Tycooner FR, Mar 11 2016, 03:17 PM.
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| Luizo | Mar 11 2016, 03:31 PM Post #9 |
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Now that I think I think the Sharks Greenland if possible, live at depths of 2.500 meters, and its food varies but never overlook to the surface I think I better give up |
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| the dark phoenix | Mar 11 2016, 04:26 PM Post #10 |
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Well I was thinking nearby ireland has a animal called the "irish crocodile" which is a large otter-like animal so I thought maybe they are one in the same... Ok yes the body plan I show is not really right. They don't look like plesiosaurs BUT! I still believe it is a undiscovered otter because they have been known to get large, their tail could be mistaken for a flipper, among other reasons I have stated before. Perhaps there are parts of the loch's shores that have't been messed with? Places for them to hide on land when not being in the water? Fish don't explain the land based attacks. European otters have been seen dragging lambs and pigs into the water. |
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| Rudyn | Mar 11 2016, 05:27 PM Post #11 |
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Dobhar-chú if exict its more like a giant otter species. For nessie there were also some theories that it's may a new log necked seal species. Like in this pictures: Edited by Rudyn, Mar 11 2016, 05:28 PM.
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| the dark phoenix | Mar 11 2016, 05:41 PM Post #12 |
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Would a Sea lion fit the bill then? |
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| Ádám3 | Mar 11 2016, 05:47 PM Post #13 |
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Hi Rudyn! I see you are a hungarian me too! So that's a sea lion? |
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Mar 11 2016, 05:49 PM Post #14 |
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Greenland sharks are not exclusively deepwater sharks. They have been found in freshwater, actually, at least on one occasion. |
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| stargatedalek | Mar 11 2016, 05:56 PM Post #15 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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Try 200 meters, not 2500... http://www.bio.gc.ca/sharks/maritime/somniosusmicrocephalus-en.php |
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