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Nandi Bear
The Nandi Bear is a cryptid, or unconfirmed animal, reported to live in East Africa. It takes its name from the Nandi people who live in western Kenya, in the area the Nandi Bear is reported from. It is also known as Chemosit, Kerit, Ngoloko, or Duba (which derives from ''dubb'' or ''dubbha'', the Arabic words for 'bear' and 'hyena' respectively.)
Frank W. Lane wrote, "What the Abominable Snowman is to Asia, or the great Sea Serpent is to the oceans, the Nandi Bear is to Africa. It is one of the most notorious of those legendary beasts which have, so far, eluded capture and the collector's rifle."〔(Cryptozoology.com )〕
==Description==
Descriptions of the Nandi Bear are of a ferocious, powerfully built carnivore with high front shoulders (over four feet tall) and a sloping back, somewhat similar to a hyena. Some have speculated that Nandi Bears are in fact a misidentified hyena or a surviving Ice Age giant hyena: Karl Shuker states that a surviving short-faced hyaena ''Pachycrocuta brevirostris'', extinct c. 500,000 years before present, would "explain these cases very satisfactorily."〔Shuker, 1995〕
Other than the Atlas bear (extinct by the 1800s), no modern bears are known to be native to modern Africa, though the Etruscan bear, and species of the prehistoric genera ''Agriotherium'' and ''Indarctos'', lived in Northern Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Louis Leakey〔Louis S. Leakey, “Does the. Chalicothere—Contemporary of the Okapi— Still Survive?” ''Illustrated London News'' Vol 187, as cited in ''Mysterious creatures: a guide to cryptozoology'', Volume 1, By George M. Eberhart, ABC-CLIO, 2002, ISBN
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