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Expedition Alghoi Khorkhoi 2003 |
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In search of the mythic Gobi death worm |
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Impressed
by the vastness of the landscapes, they started to their search in a
small museum of the south Gobi (Yolin ann) where is displayed a
sculpture of the Alghoi. Then,
on the basis of indications given by the guide of the museum and a local
journalist specialist in the subject, they drove to the south of
Dalanzagad to remote and extremely little visited areas, and met
eyewitnesses having seen the animal in the past. The
team remained one the rare spot of observation under a wild burning sun
with the only company of the wolves, scorpions, spiders, ticks, snakes
and other dangerous small beasts but were
unlucky to see the worm. |
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Further information about expedition |
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It
is described like a big worm of approximately 80 cm length living in
very remote sand areas of Gobi desert and leaving to the free air only
very seldom, in summer. He is considered as a
"terrible" animal able to kill in an unexplained way
any man who touch it (poison, static electricity?) The
first report on this animal came from the famous paleontologist Roy
Chapman Andrews which was asked to capture it by the Prime Minister of
Mongolia in 1922. The
local belief of the existence of Alghoi Khorkhoi is very widespread and
could accredit the assumption that an unknown animal, worm or reptile
could still remain unknown by science from its great discretion and its
desertic and hostile unhabitat. Some links to learn more :
See also the tales and photoes of the 2005 expedition
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