You can make a career and be a professional at anything that anyone is willing to pay for. The thing is that very few people are interested in investing in something with such a terrible record of performance as cryptozoology.

Of course you can be a cryptozoologist. It's very easy to do fraud for a living.

Sure, but the reality isn't as exciting as you think. Think 'less bigfoot research, more going to remote regions to look for as-yet-undescribed species of mammals'

I have always been interested in cryptozoology but yet I really I have to wonder is there any real money to be earned in the trade. It's obvious that these people that hunt for bigfoot, the lochness monster Ect. on t.v. get paid. Because thats their job on T.V. but I want to know, is there a degree that you have to earn (or is it just a brach of of zoology), can you earn a living on it (or do you have to find something to get the mula) so this is just some things I have been wondering. Though I Read a article that there is a degree to be earned. Though it has more to do with folk legend, tribal stories, so are we just studying stories (though I beleive there is something out there such as bigfoot) or are we trying to crack the truth. So anyone have an idea if there is a degree to be earned what university or college can you get certified................

Discoveries of previously unknown animals are often subject to great attention, but cryptozoology per se has seen relatively little interest from mainstream scientists. As historian Mike Dash[8] notes, few scientists doubt there are thousands of unknown animals, particularly invertebrates, awaiting discovery. However, as Dash notes, cryptozoologists are largely uninterested in researching and cataloguing newly-discovered species of ants or beetles, instead focusing their efforts towards "more elusive" creatures that have often defied decades of work aimed at confirming their existence.

The majority of mainstream criticism of cryptozoology is directed towards the search for megafauna cryptids such as Bigfoot, the Yeren, and the Loch Ness Monster which appear often in popular culture, but for which there is little or no scientific support. Scientists argue that mega-fauna cryptids are unlikely to exist undetected in great enough numbers to maintain a breeding population,[9] and are unlikely to be able to survive in their reported habitats due to issues of climate and food supply.[10]

As such, cryptozoology has never been embraced by the scientific community. Most experts on the matter consider the Bigfoot legend to be a combination of folklore and hoaxes,[11] and cryptozoology is considered to be a pseudoscience by mainstream zoologists and biologists.[12][13] Noted objections to cryptozoology include unreliable eyewitness accounts, lack of scientific and physical evidence, and over-reliance on confirmation (confirmation bias) rather than refutation.[11]

As a biologist I've never heard of a cryptozoologist before nor a degree in such a thing.

Wiki has a nice point:



I'd say if you are really interested in going to school to "search" for megafauna like Footy, then I would say double major in Zoology and Ecology or Zoology and Genetics (heavy emphasis on population genetics). Get a masters for sure, good luck getting project funding on a master's degree though. If you want funding for your work and a place to work PhD is the only way to go. Otherwise you end running someones research projects for them (not that there is anything wrong with that if that is what you want to do).


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hen as a side interest pursue your interests in cryptids.

It is possible as long as you have no problem with not eating for quite a few years.

It would be immensley advantagous to have someone like Sir David Attenborough for a Dad.

ur pretty damn smart for sure. r u open minded bout cryptids.

There are hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of undiscovered species. Of that I am sure. I tend to think most of those chased by cryptozoologists though are likely unreal. I have no doubt that people see things, people see lots of things. People see God, People see Aliens, People see Spaceships, People see angles and devils and all sorts of bizarre things.

People also don't like not knowing what they see, it is an ingrained part of the human psyche. I have, in my lifetime, never met someone who enjoys not knowing something. Because of this, I think we often see that which we want to see, or believe to see. I also think what others claim to see, plays in important role in what we see. I think the overwhelming majority of large fauna cryptid cases are due to misidentification, hoaxes/pranks/jokes and social lore.

well i tend to have a system of number of mistaken identities:

lake monsters: otters, wood/logs, waves, seiches, birds, seals eels, mirage, reflections, moose, boats, subs, canoes,

bigfoot: umm, none( ive seen a suited person from at least a couple of hundred yards away!. without binoculars too. eyewitnesses may be unreliable SOMETIMES, but you should use them to lead to discovery


The very small percent of cases that seem to be "real" never really turn up any conclusive evidence that we can work with. Which makes it hard to study something and why many other scientist do not consider cryptozoology a science (remember science is a methodological study of our world). So while eyewitness accounts and folk stories are a fine thing to study, they fall more under the realm of the humanities than the natural sciences.

so coleman, meldrum, kirk are all frauds? they aint frauds buddy

Yes. They are. I refuse to believe that they even exist. I reckon they were made up by internet junkies to support Cryptids existence. Prove they exist.

Um. The above mentioned people actually exist. I've seen them on TV and had no reason to believe that they themselves were fake.

biscardi is an example of fraud. coleman is an example of a true cryptozoologist, who doesnt take things for what they are, and tries to dissect the sightings and come up with explanations

You may as well believe the world is all illusion and check yourself into a Buddist temple to become a monk.

Um. The above mentioned people actually exist. I've seen them on TV and had no reason to believe that they themselves were fake.

You may as well believe the world is all illusion and check yourself into a Buddist temple to become a monk.

prove what exists? cryptzoologists? thats to easy i can say their names

loren coleman
john kirk
craig woolheater
sarmiento


cryptozoology wasnt coined on the internet.




hey genius

coleman, kirk and others dont say "cryptids must exist. instead all they do is report articles and come up with new theories, and view cryptozoology as a hobby of theirs, not a full time job

nup. im not falling for it. they dont exist. they dont exist. and that's final.

show me a photo of all those people. i know you cant.

http://redpill.dailygrail.com/mediawiki/im...orenColeman.jpg

there ya go!

obviously photoshop.

you are lost for words. my argument is flawless. i am victorious. cryptozoologists aren't real.

what do u want from me? colemans scat? meldrums mustache?

No. too easy to fake. a blood sample, video footage and, oh, i dont know, prehaps you could actually bring them to me if you're so sure they exist!

well on the history channel, sasquatch was interviewed concerning cryptozoologists existence

sasquatch: even though their are reports, why havent we found any good proof by now? well humans are very hard to find, and given the fact no sasquatchs are looking for them, we arent going to find proof. what we need is a full scale expedition to look for these so called "cryptozoologists".

champ, on the other hand, disagrees

champ: cryptozoologists are in the same category as free gasoline, al gore, chuck norris, theyre all fun to believe, but the evidence is not convincing

Can someone have a career as a Cryptozoologist? I'd say sure. There may not be many openings locally however. It is a job that a person first must become a skilled zoologist , anthropologist or biologist, so that you can understand the creatures you will be investigating from the view of Nature and Science. I'd recommend a Masters so that people will take you seriously.

If by the time you have you Masters degree and you still want to to follow the path of the Cryptozoologist, then you will have to painstakingly build up a reputation as something other then a total kook. Then you'll have to start you own buisiness and live a life of poverty until you make some kind of discovery or find evidence of a cryptobeast.

This is not a life for the faint of heart and not to be entered lightly. It is a life of poverty mostly, and probably one filled with bad tabloids, bad talk shows and being pursued by people trying to push fraud and fakes on you.

But, yes it is possible.

obviously photoshop.

All I see is a bf and its mate. Must be a photoshop.

precisely.

we clearly see a bigfoot in the pic, but why are all the photos of cryptozoologists so blurry? why do they keep avoiding us? with no bones of one, just bad writing and poop, their is no good evidence

Personally, I believe it would be impossible for any species to grow facial hair in the pattern of that man, scientifically, that is just not likely at all.

even skeptics like bigfoot say we should have found them by now. instead all we have is anecdotes of them, bad journalism, and fuzzy documentaries

Then again, the coelacanth was also thought to be extinct until it was recently rediscovered, so prehaps hope is not totally lost?

the coelocanth is a 6ft fish, big, and remember the komodo was also a myth to

i dunno, the researchers of cryptozoologists (Cryptozoologistologists) don't seem trustworthy to me.

coleman is a good researcher, so is chris murphy, john green, adam davies, richard greenwell, johnathan downes,

the coelocanth is a 6ft fish, big, and remember the komodo was also a myth to

yes, but u are forgeting that the coelocanth lives in the water. cryptozoologists are suposed to live on dry land. they would have 2 leave traces. i heard they eat at mcDonalds. can someone find any reciepts from when they ate? maybe that will help sway bigfoot from his skeptism. he is a good arguer.

yet most bigfoot are armchair skeptics ,and spend more time in the woods than in the rural areas where cryptozoologists are supposed to exist!

Good point. Cryptozooligists are said to live in the big cities, but how often do bigfoots, or any cryptid for that matter, enter such areas? Not very frequentally, I'll tell you that right now.

yes, but u are forgeting that the coelocanth lives in the water. cryptozoologists are suposed to live on dry land. they would have 2 leave traces. i heard they eat at mcDonalds. can someone find any reciepts from when they ate? maybe that will help sway bigfoot from his skeptism. he is a good arguer.