On Wednesday evening, November 14, 2007, a five-person party flies from London’s Heathrow Airport in search of more complete information on at least three South American cryptids (e.g. Giant Anaconda, Didi/Mapinguary, Water Tiger). The five individuals from the UK-based Centre for Fortean Zoology [CFZ] are on the track of cryptid data and en route to Guyana.

For more information, see their previous release (which is being recycled this week), here.

CFZ misread early notices here about this being called a “publicity stunt” for the videogame company Capcom’s launch of their new video game Monster Hunter 3. In the USA, the phrase “publicity stunt” is not spoken with any negativity, but with congratulatory reality. I actually applaud anyone that can get funding for their expeditions in search of new animals, as long as the source of finances is not tied to any type of censorship of data!

Hopefully, the CFZ group was able to pack a copy of the Bullyland Megatherium replica, shown below. This is the same kind that David Oren used with his informants, as he gathered information on the Amazonian Mapinguary.

For more information, click on this recent blog about Giant Ground Sloths.

But what the CFZ may find are the more primate-oriented accounts from north of the Amazon, linked to the Didi. Hopefully they will have replicas and a field guide to cover these too.

This drawing from a cryptozoological field guide is based on an eyewitness account of the Didi of Guyana ~ a five feet tall bipedal Proto-Pygmy of the rainforests, covered in short black hair that makes “hooing” sounds.

Best of luck to the personnel from the CFZ, as they venture into the wilds of South America.