Biology:Mapinguari
In Brazil ian folklore, the mapinguari or mapinguary, also called the juma, is a monstrous entity said to live in the Amazon rainforest.
Description
There are two major depictions of it. Some described them as a hairy humanoid cyclops. This version is often said to have a gaping mouth on its abdomen.[1] Others claim that it is a modern day sighting of the giant ground sloth, an animal estimated to have gone extinct during the early holocene.[1][2] Skeptics point out that there haven't been any fossil records of ground sloths for thousands of years[3]
Terminology
According to Felipe Ferreira Vander Velden, its name is a combination of the Tupi-Guarani words "mbaé", "pi", and "guari", meaning "a thing that has a bent [or] crooked foot [or] paw".[4] Other names by which they are referred to include the Karitiana kida harara,[4] and the Machiguenga segamai.[1][2]
See also
- List of legendary creatures
- Mylodon
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rohter, Larry (2007-07-08). "A Huge Amazon Monster Is Only a Myth. Or Is It?". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/world/americas/08amazon.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Oren, David C. "Does the Endangered Xenarthran Fauna of Amazonia Include Remnant Ground Sloths?", Edentata (June 2001) p. 2-5
- ↑ Martin, Paul S. (2005). Twilight of the mammoths : ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-94110-6. OCLC 62860983. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62860983.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Felipe Ferreira Vander Velden "Sobre caes e indios: domesticidade, classificacao zoologica e relacao humano-animal entre os Karitiana", Revista de Antropología 15 (2009) p. 125-143
Sources
- Martin, Paul S. 2007. Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America. University of California Press. ISBN:9780520252431
- Shepard, G. H. 2002. "Primates and the Matsigenka" in Agustín Fuentes & Linda D. Wolfe. Primates Face to Face: The Conservation Implications of Human-nonhuman Primate Interconnections. Cambridge University Press . ISBN:9781139441476
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