Bestiarium Volant. Skvader.
Skvader
Skvader
Latin name: Tetrao lepus pseudo-hybridus rarissimus.
Other names: Skvadern, Skvadern.
Classes: beast fantastic.
Habitat - Sweden (province Medelpad).
Skvader - is a fantastic mix of hare and grouse. The head, legs and a big part of his body - a hare, but the wings, the rear part of the body and tail - the capercaillie. Skvader lives only in Sweden, more precisely in the province Medelpad, near the town Sundvall. It was there such an animal shot in 1874, known in those places Hunter Hakan Dalmark (HÃ¥kan Dahlmark), which, however, no evidence except his word of honor, to show he could not. But in northern Sweden, the famous hunter easy to believe and on the floor. Nephew of the owner of the hotel in the tavern at which repeatedly told a story about an unusual animal, painted with the words Hunter's picture.
This picture hunter before his death in 1912 gave the local museum. A director of the museum was a good friend the talented Swedish taxidermist Rudolf Granberg (Rudolf Granberg). Granberg interested skvaderom and in 1918, "recreated" two winged stuffed animal - one for local Museum, the second for the Biological Museum in Stockholm. Director of the museum immediately skvadera published photos in several newspapers and ordered three thousand postcards with his image, which sent his friends almost worldwide.
So skvader gained wide popularity.
While living skvadera so long as no one not seen, the Swedes are quite confident in his existence, as a respected hunter, as Hakan Dalmark, would not be in vain to lie to honest people. Just this skvader - A very clever and cautious animal, such as hunters as Hakan - a rarity.
Therefore, to give us something to replace yourself living skvaderov Swedes nicknamed "skvaderami" his famous northern coaches, who also is a hybrid, but not a hare and grouse, and bus and truck. And they they called "Skvaderom" its first atomic bomber Saab A-36, but in 1960 stopped all its nuclear weapons program, and the aircraft remained on paper.
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