''Beast Hunter'' is a
television series
A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed be ...
that began airing on March 9, 2011 on
National Geographic Channel. It is hosted and narrated by wildlife scientist Pat Spain.
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Accessed April 18, 2011 In each episode, he travels to a different part of the world to investigate an individual
cryptid's alleged existence. This typically involves interviews with local witnesses, setting up
camera trap
A camera trap is a camera that is automatically triggered by a change in some activity in its vicinity, like presence of an animal or a human being. It is typically equipped with a motion sensor – usually a passive infrared (PIR) senso ...
s, and in some cases, searching for similar animals in the local
fossil record
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 ...
. When the series is aired in the UK, it is renamed ''Beast Man''.
Episodes
See also
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Cryptid
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Cryptozoology
Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness ...
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MonsterQuest
''MonsterQuest'' (sometimes written as ''Monsterquest'' or ''Monster Quest'') is an American television series that originally aired from October 31, 2007 to March 24, 2010 on the History channel. Produced by Whitewolf Entertainment, the program de ...
References
External links
Overview
Cryptozoological television series
National Geographic (American TV channel) original programming
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