Facts:

By: Shyan Chapman 06-12-2003

1) There is very little plant-life around the Loch, so it is highly unlikely that the creature – said to be a Plesiosaur (or a relative of the Plesiosaur) by many - is a Herbivore.

The waters contain a high amount of Plankton, which feed the fish-life of the Loch - Salmon are frequently caught weighing thirty pounds or more, migrating up from the sea. Trout are large in numbers as well, growing to an abnormal size of up to twenty pounds. Pike of many different sizes inhabit the river mouths and large numbers of Eels live in the bottom silt of the shallow bay areas and along the side shorelines of the Loch.

There is also evidence, found on sonar, of Arctic Char-fish, which weigh a pound or two, so obviously the aquatic-life of the Loch provide an abundant food-source for the Monster.

(They do not have the large head and mouth of a typical plankton-eater, like a Greenland Whale or a

Basking Shark, and no one has reported one of them munching on weeds around the Loch).

2) It is said that the Loch Ness Monster came from the Sea and adapted to life in Fresh-Water, but according to many Marine Biologists this sort of thing is very unlikely - yet in Lake Tung-Ting of China, six hundred and fifty miles from the mouth of a huge river called Yangtze Kiang, there is a species of Dolphin living and breeding in Fresh-Water.

In Lake Nicaragua, in Central America, there is a species of Fresh-Water Shark, which is dangerous to man - these animals have also been cut-off from the Sea and have shown great adaptability to their surroundings.

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