Roperite

Region: Sierra Mountains, CA

Lead Investigator: Agent 32

Last Updated: 15 June 2014

• Rhynchoropus Aagellifonnis, Pseudoequus nasiretinaculi
• Possibly extinct

Identification:

• Rope-like beak, flippers for feet, and a rattle on its tail
• Comparitive in size of a small pony
• "Its leathery skin is impervious to thorn"
• Very fast, considered to be faster than any other creature in its habitat
• Jackrabbits are thought to be its main prey, but sometimes will attack other animals, including humans

Proposed Explanations

• Spirits of early Spanish ranchers

Images

Illustration by Coert DuBois from 'Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts' by William Thomas Cox (1910)

Illustration by Margaret Ramsay Tryon from 'Fearsome Critters' by Henry H. Tryon (1939)

Other Resources

'Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts' by William Thomas Cox (1910) pages 12-13

'Fearsome Critters' by Henry H. Tryon (1939) pages 32-33

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