Dingonek. The first reported sighting of a Dingonek was by
explorer John Alfred Jordan in 1907 in the River Maggori in Kenya. Jordan
described it as fourteen feet long with a head marked and shaped like a leopard
but as big as a lioness. The creature had two long tusks coming down from its
upper jaw like a walrus and had scales like an armadillo.
The Dingonek was said
to be as broad as a hippopotamus and have claws like a giant lizard. It is
considered to be semi-aquatic and lives in and near creeks, lakes and rivers.
Big game hunter Edgar Beecher Bronson also saw the creature
and described it almost exactly the same as Jordan did. He called it the
“jungle walrus.”
They are said to be extremely territorial and will kill
hippos, crocodiles and fishermen that get too close.
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