Beast terrifies villagers

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AN evil-looking creature has this village in the grip of fear.

Residents of Ndabakazi near Butterworth, Eastern Cape, say it’s brought danger to the veld where sheep and goats graze.

Bubele Mafanga (52), one of the villagers who reported seeing it, said it came at it him while he was looking after livestock near the local river on Monday.

Bubele said it was as long as his arm with a body like a pig’s – but no legs.

It had a snake’s tongue and a cow’s head – but no horns. And it didn’t slither – it was hopping in the long grass.

“I let it pass. I had a sjambok but didn’t hit it as I feared if it would attack me.

“The sheep stopped grazing when they saw it. I was scared,” he said. He told villagers, but they couldn’t find it the next day.

Villager Busisiwe Gilimani (20) said she saw the thing while collecting wood along the river. “It was as big as a tyre. It moved slowly to the water.

“I didn’t see the head. I never saw such a snake in my life. I rushed home,” she said.

Nomaphelo Njikelana (31) said villagers were worried. “Our kids look after livestock in the veld where this snake was seen. It must be hunted.

“A few weeks ago a cow was found dead there.” Villagers thought the creature might have attacked it, she said.

Bubele said: “The police came but didn’t get out of their car. They were scared.

“One SPCA official said they can’t come to look for it. We must call them if we see it again,” he said. Captain Jackson Manatha said: “We referred this to the SPCA.”
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Weed ****s em up.

As long as an arm, cow's head, serpent tongue: What do you call a likkewaan in English?
 
Hamster said:
Weed ****s em up.

As long as an arm, cow's head, serpent tongue: What do you call a likkewaan in English?
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Lizard? iguana?

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Sounds similar to a seahorse but bigger from the description.
 
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Some poor animal is gonna meet an horrific end.

Kind of like that rare bush baby-type creature that was killed because the locals had never seen it before.

''Oh look, an animal we have never seen before, I wonder what it could be? Quick, kill it so we can have a good look!''
 
thestaggy said:
''Oh look, an animal we have never seen before, I wonder what it could be? Quick, kill it so we can have a good look!''
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Like that doesn't happen all the time with professional biologists. :whistle:
 
Bar0n said:
Like that doesn't happen all the time with professional biologists. :whistle:
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Not really.

Meet the Olinguito. Research was conducted on 100-year old museum specimens before live specimens were described and documented in the wild.

“The data from the old specimens gave us an idea of where to look, but it still seemed like a shot in the dark,” Kays said. “But these Andean forests are so amazing that even if we didn’t find the animal we were looking for, I knew our team would discover something cool along the way.”

The team had a lucky break that started with a camcorder video. With confirmation of the olinguito’s existence via a few seconds of grainy video shot by their colleague Miguel Pinto, a zoologist in Ecuador, Helgen and Kays set off on a three-week expedition to find the animal themselves. Working with Pinto, they found olinguitos in a forest on the western slopes of the Andes, and spent their days documenting what they could about the animal―its characteristics and its forest home. Because the olinguito was new to science, it was imperative for the scientists to record every aspect of the animal. They learned that the olinguito is mostly active at night, is mainly a fruit eater, rarely comes out of the trees and has one baby at a time.

In addition to body features and behavior, the team made special note of the olinguito’s cloud forest Andean habitat, which is under heavy pressure of human development. The team estimated that 42 percent of historic olinguito habitat has already been converted to agriculture or urban areas.
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http://smithsonianscience.org/2013/08/olinguito/
 
Bar0n said:
Like that doesn't happen all the time with professional biologists. :whistle:
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But they are not professional, and they loved doing it in the old days, these days they wouldn't really do it, unless they're Japanese "whale" researchers, and these guys think a bush baby is a tokoloshe.
 
Bar0n said:
Like that doesn't happen all the time with professional biologists. :whistle:
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A great example of this from QI

[video=youtube;DsWX8JtQrPU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsWX8JtQrPU[/video]
 
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