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Jaroslav Mareš (28 December 1937 in

Brno Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making ...

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– 5 May 2021,

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) was a Czech

biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...

, traveller and

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. He graduated from The University of Economics in

, getting a degree of Ing (he studied international business). He worked for ČSA in

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and later in

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. He visited 85 countries and organised several expeditions for research of

cryptids Cryptids are animals or other beings whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science. Cryptozoology, the study of cryptids, is a pseudoscience claiming that such beings may exist somewhere in the wild; it has been widely cri ...

, such as Kongamato (for this he was offered the membership of the International Society for Cryptozoology which he accepted), Nandi bear, Megalania prisca,

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. ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. is an ape-like creature purported t ...

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, Champ,

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, Lusca, Ambazombi and others. In 1978 he organised an expedition to the

tepui A tepui , or tepuy (), is a member of a family of table-top mountains or mesas found in northern South America, especially in Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the ...

which probably inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for writing The Lost World (a book based on stories told to Doyle by

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). He also studied

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s (he visited most of the famous

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sites, such as Nemegt in

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Red Deer The red deer (''Cervus elaphus'') is one of the largest deer species. A male red deer is called a stag or Hart (deer), hart, and a female is called a doe or hind. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Ir ...

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, and other localities in

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and

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) and corresponded with the world-leading palaeontologists. Another field of his interest was

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. In 1976 he discovered and later scientifically described the world's strongest

carnivorous A carnivore , or meat-eater (Latin, ''caro'', genitive ''carnis'', meaning meat or "flesh" and ''vorare'' meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose nutrition and energy requirements are met by consumption of animal tissues (mainly mu ...

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, ''Manticora imperator'', of the

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group. He became a specialist in this group of beetles and later described three more

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. He published twenty two

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and numerous

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articles. He died in Prague aged 83.

Bibliography

*''V tropech tří světadílů'' ''(In tropical forests of three continents)'' (1976) *''Nejkrásnější brouci tropů'' ''(The most beautiful tropical beetles)'' (1980), with Vlastimil Lapáček *''Yetti'' ''(Yeti)'' (1991) *''Hledání Ztraceného světa'' ''(Searching The Lost World)'' (1992) *''Legendární příšery a skutečná zvířata'' ''(Legendary monsters and real animals)'' (1993) *''Záhada dinosaurů'' ''(The mystery of dinosaurs)'' (1993) *''Po záhadných stopách'' ''(On the mysterious tracks)'' (1994) *''Detektivem v říši zvířat'' ''(Detective in the kingdom of animals)'' (1995) *''Tyrkysová karavana'' ''(Turquois caravan)'' (1995) *''Svět tajemných zvířat'' ''(The world of mysterious animals)'' (1997) *''Hrůza zvaná Kurupira'' ''(The horror named Kurupira)'' (2001) *''Gladiátoři druhohor'' ''(Mesozoic gladiators)'' (2001) *''Dračí chrám'' ''(The Temple of Dragons)'' (2002) *''Jezero krokodýlích čarodějů'' ''(The Lake of the crocodile sorcerers)'' (2002) *''Manticora: A Monograph of the Genus (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae, Manticorini)'' (2002) *''Kurupira: zlověstné tajemství'' ''(Kurupira: the ominous mystery)'' (2005) *''Legendární opolidé (Obrovití primáti – legenda nebo pravda?)'' ''(Legendary ape-men (Giant primates – legend or truth?))'' 2007 *''Smrt ve sloní trávě'' ''(Death in the elephant grass)'' *''Šepot buše'' ''(The whisper of the bush)'' (2011) *''Ve stínu baobabů'' ''(In the shadows of baobabs)'' (2012) *''V říši tygra'' ''(In the kingdom of the tiger)'' (2013) *''Stezkami záhadných zvířat'' ''(On the paths of mysterious animals)'' (2015)

References and external links

References

External links

* Klub českých cestovatelů (Czech Travellers' Club

* A book on the genus '' Manticora (beetle), Manticora'' by J. Mare�

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