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Maybe sightings of the long neck are sightings of the tail, or the upper jaw if the jaws are long enough? Or maybe sea dragons and lindormshave overlapping territory, and the latter is thin enough to be mistaken by a neck when breaching? Or if not a lindorm, maybe juvenile sea dragons? I think "long neck" is too important to Nessie sightings to just ignore it entirely without feeling like you're not paying attention to the "real thing," and saying "nah they were wrong" might seem patronizing.

Indeed, but a lot of the sightings make it very clear it was a neck and not anything else, complete with tiny head on the end.

I’ll work something out at some point.

As for patronizing people, the love for Nessie as a concept in Scotland is strong (I live in a place with lots of tourist shops, each one with a Nessie sections - we are nowhere near Loch Ness, she is just considered a Scottish tourism icon) but not in the “she looks like this and nothing else” kind of way, in a “I hope there is a Nessie and I hope she’s friendly” kind of way. Even those on the Loch Ness Monster Research project don’t say for definite she has a long neck because some sightings contradict that, they just say “there is something in the loch” and gesture to the list of sightings.

The official Nessie museum (well it said it was the ‘official one’, but there’s probably more than one) had a model of the most accepted Nessie shape, a good ol’ plesiosaur, but the serpentine shape is equally popular.

And the most popular in merch stores is obviously the one that wears the tam-o-shanter.

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like, the number of people i sincerely hate (that isnt a politician or famous person, people ive personally known) is probably in the single digits but oh man does my stepmom have a space on there

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Hard shelled eggs might also help if the eggs are used as displays. Soft shelled reptile eggs can’t really be moved once laid or the embryo may drown in the egg fluids.

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Something about the Kirin and Giraffe is that the Giraffe didn’t invent the myth, the first reference to the Kirin is over a thousand years older than the Giraffe account, but when they received Giraffes as gifts they associated the living creatures with the pre-existing myth.

Thanks for the facts!