Keepers at the Bristol Zoo Project have been left baffled by images of a mysterious creature caught on a night vision camera. The zoo’s conservation team made the discovery when looking through images from camera traps set up in the habitat where bears and wolves
After reviewing the images, the experts say the creature appears to have four legs and is like nothing they have spotted before. There had been reports over the last few weeks of something unusual lurking between the trees, turning the heads of not just the staff, but also the animals that live there
Camera traps are used by Bristol Zoological Society’s conservation team to survey and monitor species of all sizes that inhabit Bear Wood’s 7.5 acres of ancient woodland. The mysterious shape, which has been seen on camera on several occasions, has been impossible to identify
The sightings come just before the launch of the zoo’s ‘Howl-oween: Myths and Legends trail’, which will give visitors the opportunity to see giraffes, lemurs, cheetah, wolves and wolverines, as well as potentially spot the mythical creature. It will also include myth-busting talks, an interactive animal artefact experience in the Lodge of Legends, as well as the chance for visitors to create their own mythical creature in the Cauldron of Creation
Rosie Sims, public engagement manager at Bristol Zoo Project, said: “The sighting of this mythical-like creature is a mystery to us here at Bristol Zoo Project and has been a great inspiration for the Halloween trail this year. Scotland has the Loch Ness monster and Cornwall has the Beast of Bodmin Moor – have we discovered a similar mythical here in Bristol perhaps?
