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The Mokele Mbembe is an animal residing in the category of "cryptid" or animal not yet formally documented by science. It has been described since 1776 as a large 16-30 foot grey animal with a long neck and snake like head. The creature is reported in several West African nations including Ghana, Cameroon, & The Congo. It's habitat is the deep jungle rivers (such as the Dja) and swampy lakes (such as Lake Tele). In the 1980's, scientist Roy Mackal of the University of Chicago went to the Congo to pursue and investigate the reports. He brought along pictures of animals the natives knew (crocs,hippos) and pictures of animals they did not know (bears, foxes) and a picture of a sauropod dinosaur (Apatosaurus). The villages knew the crocs and hippos, did not recognize the foxes/bears, but when the dino picture was pulled out - they immediately cried out "Mekele Mbembe". Several expeditions have followed up on Mackal, including a Japanese TV crew who filmed a large object moving in Lake Tele from the air. Some say is an animal, others men in a canoe. Mekele Mbembe is not the only dinosaur like creature reported from Africa. Another mysterious beast is known as the Emela-ntouka, an alleged animal claimed by some to be a living ceratopsian, while the mbielu-mbielu-mbielu resembles a stegasour. Also in the mix is the Kasai Rex, a two footed carnivore.
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When was Achille Mbembe born?
Achille Mbembe was born in 1957.
Can the mokele mbembe do anything?
Mokele mbembe can crush boats, kill hippos and swim to great depths, it is like BOSS! Also if somebody eats its flesh they will DIE!
How do you pronounce mokele mbembe?
mo-kele m-bembe
What dinosaur stayed in swampy areas?
Certain long necked dinosaurs seem to like swamps. According to the African Congo Natives, there are dinosaurs living in The huge swamps of Central Africa right now. They describe them as huge elephants with heads on the end of their trunks and call them Mokole-mbembe. This swamp is larger than the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi combined! And, explorers claim they have explored only 20% of the entire thing, so I guess there could be all kinds of cool things living in there.
How much does a mokele mbembe weigh?
no body knows if mokele mbembe is real so no body on earth knows how much it weighs or how long it lives for, but some say it is the size of two elephants
What is extraordinary about the mokele mbembe?
they are water dwelling dinosaurs that have been most sighted in the Congo.
Is the Mokele Mbembe territorial?
well you cant really know because it is not proven to exist
What does Mokele Mbembe have in common with the Lock Ness Monster?
Both the Mokele Mbembe and the Lock Ness Monster are dinosaur like mythical animals, people have searched and hunted for these animals, myth and fare sightings of both are reported but there is no proof that they exist.
Is the mokele mbembe real?
That is unknown. Mokele Mbembe is a "cryptid". A cryptid is a animal in a scientific study [Bigfoot, Yeti, etc.] who's existence has not yet been proven. Its is very possible however that a creature like this could still exist in the jungle because much of it although has been explored with machines, it has not been manually explored.
Is their a mystery animal in the Congo?
There have been rumors of a dinosaur like creature there, called Mokele Mbembe. Supposed to be similar to a saurapod like brachiosaurus.
Desribe the Mokele-Mbembe?
The Mokele-Mbembe is said to be a water dwelling animal around fifteen to thiry feet in size. It is said to resemble a Sauropod (long necked dinosaur) and live in the unexplored regions of the Congo Basin. There aren't very many exact descriptions of what it looks like but, imagine something along the lines of the Loch Ness Monster, long neck, triangular head, smooth shiny skin. How this helps!!
Has anyone outside of Africa seen mokele-mbembe?
i doubt it. the reason being is that its an African legend, that'd be like saying "has the loch ness monster been spotted in belgium"
