On the Track of Unknown Animals

Blurb

On the Track of Unknown Animals is a cryptozoological book by the Belgian-French author Bernard Heuvelmans that was first published in 1955 under the title Sur la Piste des Bêtes Ignorées. The English translation by Richard Garnett was published in 1958 with some updating by the author and with a foreword by Gerald Durrell. A revised and abridged edition was published in 1965, and a further edition in 1995. It is credited with introducing the term cryptozoology.
On the Track of Unknown Animals cites animals that had only been discovered relatively recently, such as the pygmy chimpanzee, Coelocanth, Komodo Dragon and Giant Panda; and those that are believed to have become extinct relatively recently, such as the Moa and Tasmanian Tiger. The author then discusses evidence for cryptids from all over the world including the Mokele-mbembe, Sea Serpents and Yeti, with an extensive bibliography.