Reviews for Once in a wood

The average rating for Once in a wood based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-27 00:00:00 Gil Udry I found a reference to this text while looking up the "kerit" mentioned in one of Lavie Tidhar's HebrewPunk stories; it turns out to be the Nandi Bear, a crypid which may be/have been a type of hyena, extinct* Atlas bear, or chalicothere (although that last is not carnivorous). *But only in the 1870s! I had not realized there were African bears so recently. Down the wikihole I go: "Where the Atlas bear actually originated from is unknown, one genetic study was unable to link it to any brown bear, but it had weak but significant mtDNA links to the polar bear.[1] Polar bears appear in Paleolithic cave paintings in Andalucia Spain, which is a very short swim to the Atlas Mountains for a polar bear." And "The Cantabrian brown bear likely was introduced to Africa from Spain by the Romans who imported Iberian bears for spectacles."

Review # 2 was written on 2010-08-24 00:00:00 Michael Crabtree Essential cryptozoology.