 Purported "Cadborosaurus willsi" remains. | "Cadborosaurus willsi", nicknamed "Caddy", is the name given in a formal description to a cryptid species. It is described as a large aquatic animal living along the Pacific Coast of North America, presumed to be a sea serpent or other sea monster. Its name is derived from Cadboro Bay in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Greek root word "sauros" meaning lizard or reptile. The animal is similar in form and behaviour, and presumed related to, various popularly named lake monsters such as "Ogopogo" of deep interior lakes of British Columbia and to the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland. Among the localities at which more than 300 documented sightings have been made during the past two centuries is San Francisco Bay, California, Deep Cove in Saanich Inlet, B. C., and several breeding localities in the Strait of Georgia, B. C. Image File history File links Cadborosaurus. ...
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// Cryptids are hypothetical species of animals known from anecdotal evidence and/or other evidence insufficient to prove them with certainty. ...
Loch Ness Monster (Painting) by Heikenwaelder Hugo Sea serpents are a kind of sea monster either wholly or partly serpentine. ...
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Cadboro Bay is a seaside community located in the Municipality of Saanich just to the north of the Municipality of Oak Bay. ...
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Lake monster is the name given to large unknown animals which have purportedly been sighted in, and/or are believed to dwell in lakes, although their existence has never been confirmed scientifically. ...
Ogopogo is the name given to the reputed lake monster that dwells in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada. ...
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Strait of Georgia at sunset The Strait of Georgia (also known as Georgia Strait and the Gulf of Georgia) is a 240 km (150 mi)-long strait between Vancouver Island (as well as its nearby Gulf Islands) and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. ...
This large homeothermic species resembles a serpent with vertical coils or humps in tandem behind the horse-like head and long neck, a pair of small elevational front flippers, and a pair of large webbed hind flippers fused to form a large fan-like tail region that provides powerful forward-swimming propulsion. Through a process of locomotory body transformation, the long slender body can be doubled up into rigid vertical humps that effectively reduce friction of the snakelike body surface with the water and enable the animal to attain recorded swimming speeds of more than 40 km/h at the surface. A warm-blooded (homeothermic) animal is one that can keep its core body temperature at a nearly constant level regardless of the temperature of the surrounding environment (that is, to maintain thermal homeostasis) . This can involve not only the ability to generate heat, but also the ability to cool down...
Zoological reality of the species has been suggested by the original specimen-based description in a refereed scientific journal in which the type juvenile specimen is represented by 3 different close-up quality photographs (in the B. C. Provincial Archives in Victoria), in which at least three new-born relatively tiny precocial "baby" specimens have been independently held by at least three pairs of human captors during the past 40 years, and by more than 100 documented sightings, photographs, sonar images, and sketches of live animals made independently at predicted times and places, subsequent to the original description in 1995 and continuing to the present.
Sources - Bousfield, Edward L. & Leblond Paul H. (2000). Cadborosaurus: Survivor from the Deep. Heritage House Publishing.
- Bousfield, E. L., & P. H. LeBlond. 1995. "An account of Cadborosaurus willsi, new genus, new species, a large aquatic reptile from the Pacific coast of North America". Amphipacifica Vol 1 Suppl. 1: pp. 1-25, 19 figs.
- Clark, Jerome and Coleman, Loren. (1999). Cryptozoology A-Z. Simon & Schuster.
- Jupp, Ursula. (1988, reprinted 1993). Cadboro: A Ship, A Bay, A Sea-Monster. Jay Editions.
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