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Jaroslav Mareš (28 December 1937 in

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

– 5 May 2021,

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

) was a Czech

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, 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

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

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

cryptids Cryptids are animals that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but are not believed to exist by mainstream science. Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience, which primarily looks at anecdotal stories, and other claims rejected b ...

, such as Kongamato (for this he was offered the membership of the

International Society for Cryptozoology The International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC) was an organization dedicated to the field of cryptozoology founded in 1982 in Washington, D.C. It ceased to exist in 1998. It was founded to serve as a center for documenting and evaluating topics ...

which he accepted),

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, Megalania prisca,

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Yeti The Yeti ()"Yeti"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. is an ape-like creature purported t ...

Nessie NESSIE (New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity and Encryption) was a European research project funded from 2000 to 2003 to identify secure cryptographic primitives. The project was comparable to the NIST AES process and the Japanese Gov ...

Ogopogo In Canadian folklore, the Ogopogo is a lake monster said to inhabit Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada. Some scholars have charted the entity's development from First Nations folklore and widespread water monster folklore motifs. The Ogopo ...

, Champ,

megalodon Megalodon (''Otodus megalodon''), meaning "big tooth", is an extinct species of mackerel shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (Mya), from the Early Miocene to the Pliocene epochs. It was formerly thought to be a member ...

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

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which probably inspired

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for '' A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...

for writing

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(a book based on stories told to Doyle by

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Percy Fawcett Percy Harrison Fawcett (18 August 1867 during or after 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. Fawcett disappeared in 1925 (along with his eldest son, Jack, and one of J ...

). He also studied

dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is t ...

s (he visited most of the famous

fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...

sites, such as Nemegt in

Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...

Tendaguru The Tendaguru Formation, or Tendaguru Beds are a highly fossiliferous formation and Lagerstätte located in the Lindi Region of southeastern Tanzania. The formation represents the oldest sedimentary unit of the Mandawa Basin, overlying Neoprotero ...

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

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

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

, and other localities in

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and

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) and corresponded with the world-leading

palaeontologists Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

. Another field of his interest was

shamanism Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with what they believe to be a Spirit world (Spiritualism), spirit world through Altered state of consciousness, altered states of consciousness, such as tranc ...

. 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 food and energy requirements derive from animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other sof ...

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

, ''Manticora imperator'', of the

tiger beetle Tiger beetles are a family of beetles, Cicindelidae, known for their aggressive predatory habits and running speed. The fastest known species of tiger beetle, ''Rivacindela hudsoni'', can run at a speed of , or about 125 body lengths per second. ...

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 Article often refers to: * Article (grammar), a grammatical element used to indicate definiteness or indefiniteness * Article (publishing), a piece of nonfictional prose that is an independent part of a publication Article may also refer to: G ...

. He died in Prague aged 83.Vzpomínka na Jaroslava Mareše, Vladimír Socha
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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'' by J. Mare�

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