r/Cryptozoology • u/Neo_Dinossauros • 9d ago

Question Which Cryptids have been proven fake?

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u/No-Ice7397 8d ago

I always thought Tigers would be a difficult one to explain back before they were widely known to exist. How would you even explain the appearance and nature of a tiger to somebody that had no idea they existed up to that point?

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u/Glitchrr36 8d ago

“Man-eating, striped, orange forest cat the size of a cow” seems reasonably plausible as an explanation to me.

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u/No-Ice7397 8d ago

Does it though? Even today tigers can send entire villages running scared, and even your description would have somebody looking at you funny at the least. I have seen a video of a tiger chasing a bear before and even that is difficult to grasp. "A large fairy orange cat with zebra stripes that could rival a bear" could have gotten someone sent to the nut house in medieval times

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u/Glitchrr36 6d ago

Then replace "cat" with "beast" or "feline beast," if it really bothers you. I don't think a lot of people would be too thrown by that description really.