| 词条 | Trunko |
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Trunko is the nickname for a globster reportedly sighted in Margate, South Africa, on 25 October 1924, according to an article entitled "Fish Like A Polar Bear" published in the 27 December 1924, edition of London's Daily Mail. The animal was reputedly first seen off the coast battling two killer whales, which fought the unusual creature for three hours. It used its tail to attack the whales and reportedly lifted itself out of the water by about 20 feet. One of the witnesses, South African farmer Hugh Ballance, described the animal as looking like a "giant polar bear" due to what was thought to be dense-white fur.{{fact|date=June 2018}} The creature reputedly washed up on Margate Beach but despite being there for 10 days, no scientist ever investigated the carcass while it was beached, so no reliable description has been published, and until September 2010 it was assumed that no photographs of it had ever been published. Some people who have never been identified were reported to have described the animal as possessing snowy-white fur, and an elephantine trunk.[1] Commenting on the photos, paleontologist Darren Naish wrote: {{quote|They show that it was the rotting carcass of a large vertebrate, most likely a whale. The idea that this was really the body of a white-furred, trunked sea monster stems from naivety about the appearance of rotting animal carcasses. [the photos] are somewhat ambiguous, but the enormous bulk of the carcass, the large amount of what looks like frayed, badly decayed collagen and the presence of what seems to be a mostly obscured internal skeletal framework suggest that this is another globster – a rotting mass of whale tissue."[2]}}References1. ^{{cite news |author=Staff writer |date=25 March 1925 |title=Whales are Slain by Hairy Monster |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20930821/whales_are_slain_by_hairy_monster/|newspaper=The Elwood Cale Leader |location=Elwood, Indiana |volume=35 |issue=72 |page=4 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{Globsters}}2. ^{{cite book|last1=Naish|first1=Darren|title=Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths|date=2017|publisher=Arcturus Publishing|isbn=978-1784285913|chapter=Globsters, Gambo, Trunko and Other Carcasses}} 2 : Globsters|1924 in South Africa |
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