By Jonathan Whitcomb

Here is the specific purpose of Animal Discovery (AD) in the Bylaws, as of May 4, 2021:

One aspect of the mission of AD is to inform the public about the existence, or potential existence, of apparent living animals or birds that to many Western scientists were unknown, or unacknowledged as extant species, at the end of the twentieth century. Such apparent or potential animals and birds are hereafter referred to in these Bylaws as “cryptids”.

Another part of the mission of AD is to promote the public’s open-minded consideration of reports from eyewitnesses, or possible eyewitnesses, of cryptids, and to analyze and publicize what we have learned from both eyewitness reports of cryptids and other sources.

Another purpose of AD is to promote expeditions and other searches that may result in photographing or videotaping cryptids or may result in learning about cryptids, especially through interviewing eyewitnesses or possible eyewitnesses.

Another part of the mission of AD is to protect people, farm animals, and pets from individual cryptids that are dangerous or may be dangerous and to protect cryptids that are not dangerous or that may not be dangerous.

At least at the beginning of the existence of AD, the principal cryptids of interest will be apparent non-extinct pterosaurs, flying creatures that are often called, in many Western countries, “pterodactyls”.

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By Jonathan Whitcomb

The following will probably be in the A.D. policies statement, at least in the early stages of the existence of this nonprofit organization.

1) To inform the public about the existence, or potential existence, of apparent modern pterosaurs
2) To promote the public’s open-minded consideration of reports from eyewitnesses, or potential eyewitnesses, of apparent modern pterosaurs
3) To analyze and publicize what we have learned from eyewitness reports of apparent modern pterosaurs and from other sources
4) To promote expeditions that may result in photographing or videotaping one or more apparent modern pterosaurs
5) To promote expeditions for learning about apparent modern pterosaurs, especially by interviewing eyewitnesses; these may be the same expeditions mentioned in #4
6) Related to apparent modern pterosaurs, to protect people, farm animals, pets, and endangered or potentially-endangered apparent modern pterosaurs

The above list, or one like it, may become part of the Bylaws of Animal Discovery (AD), and detailed policies or future policies of AD will be greatly influenced by such a list in the bylaws. For a more up-to-date list of the purposes of A.D., the following may be better: Bylaws regarding the purposes, at least in the version written in early May, 2021.

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