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Cookley
PEAFOWL
Peacocks are making a nuisance of themselves according to villagers in Cookley, Worcestershire. The residents were happy to have the fourteen colourful birds around at first, but now they are destroying roofs and gardens and generally making a mess.
Residents are working with officials in attempt to capture the marauding gang. As yet, nobody has come forward to claim the birds, but officials are hoping to re-unite them with their owners as soon as possible.
With breeding season approaching, it is feared that the problem may get significantly worse.

6th May 2004
(Source: BBC News)

Contributed by: Lisa Willow
Written by: Steve Jones

File: 2004-160
Ref No: 1237

Brotheridge Green
CAPYBARA
Large rodents cause concern to local villagers
Large rodent type creatures have been spotted in a Worcestershire village, Brotheridge Green, the animal is in fact called the Capybara, this is a South American rodent which can grow as big as a sheep, frightning thought for the villagers there, who were told by the RSPCA not to approach them as they can give a nasty nip if they felt threatened, the group of rat like creatures without a tail, possibly escaped from a private collection and are not expected to last the winter. They're a semi aquatic herbivore which is are exellent swimmers with their partialy webbed feet, feeding on aquatic plants etc continually knawing to keep down their cheek teeth which constantly grow if they don't usually active at dawn and dusk, but where there is disturbance they will become nocturnal.

(Source Unknown)
13th July 2001

File: 2001-61
Ref No: 639

Information Wanted
We are looking to obtain as much information regarding the "Ankerdine Hill Beast" as possible, if you have any information you feel would benefit us, then we'd love to hear form you, we always respect those who wish anonymity only divulging the names of witnesses with their consent.

Knightwick
MYSTERY CREATURE
KNIGHTWICK: What's half-fox and half wild boar? A close encounter with a mystery
Mystery Animal - half fox cub, half wild boar - is running around in the Worcestershire countryside. The creature calmly walked out in front of the witnesses car on Monday afternoon, Which startled the occupants, Jo Morris, from Suckley, near Worcester, and her mother, Rachel.

At approx 4pm, they said were halfway up Ankerdine Hill at Knightwick, when the creature appeared. "It was a cross between a Wild Boar and a Fox Cub," said Jo, who is an equestrian trainer. "I have lived in the countryside for 30 years and have never seen anything like it, wild or tame. "It was the size of a half-grown fox cub with a long Roman nose almost like a wild boar's, smallish ears and its skin was brown and mottled. "It had a hunched back and I likened it to a Hyena as it had a smaller front than back. It had a long thin tail, which ruled it out as being a Fox Cub, which develops quite a brush early on."

Ms Morris said they had to brake suddenly as the mystery animal just slowly trotted across the road just a few metres in front of their vehicle then disappeared into the undergrowth. She added that the beast did not seem bothered at all by its encounter with them. "It moved quite slowly and didn't seem in any distress."

After researching the mother and daughter dismissed the idea that the creature may have been a Coypu, which is native to South America, groups of these live in areas of Norfolk. They escaped from zoos and are now breeding successfully in the Fens.

After their encounter, Ms Morris consulted with their local vets, who were equally baffled regarding their sighting.

Drawn by: A Witness

Worcester Evening News
1st August 2003

File: 2003-2
Ref No: 753 also 767

Contributed by: Mark Fraser
Scottish Big Cats.
www.scottishbigcats.org

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