Nessie – Japan’s second favourite monster
I cannot wait until Sunday to be silly with this one (and anyway, I’ve got a better one lined up for then), a survey from iShare looking at UMA, Unidentified Mysterious Animals, or cryptozoological beasts.
Demographics
Between the 9th and 11th of December 2008 430 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.7% of the sample were male, 10.7% in their twenties, 51.9% in their thirties, 29.8% in their forties, and 7.7% in their teens or fifty or older.
Pink Tentacle has an article up that describes various Japanese UMAs.
For me, I wouldn’t want Nessie to exist as it would probably destroy a lot of the tourist trade! I’d love to see a real kappa, however. I’m not sure what the New Nessie is, but here’s a video via Japan Probe of the Old Nessie visiting Tokyo.
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