According to native legend in the Congo, the Emela-ntouka, or "killer of elephants," is a semi-aquatic beast with some resemblance to a rhinoceros. Over at Cryptomundo, Loren Coleman has posted an exclusive photograph taken by French cryptozoologist Michael Ballot of an Emela-ntouka wood statue that he found in the Cameroon.
Loren writes:
I have long speculated in writing, and wondered aloud if there might be an unknown new subspecies of aquatic rhinoceros in the Cameroon-Congo area, captured in the folklore of the Emela-ntouka.
Troubling in the identification has been the long tail seen on the Emela-ntouka. Rhinos have short tails. Disturbing to the ceratopsian school has been the lack of a neck frill, and the dubious survival of dinosaurs into modern times…
The sculpture is the first good three-dimensional native representation, as far as we know, ever seen in the West of the Emela-ntouka. Clearly shown is Emela-ntouka's long tail and single horn in this unique piece of African art. But here too, you can see that there is no neck frill. What do appear to exist, and are graphically shown, are small, elephant-like ears, different than found on rhinoceros or allegedly on dinosaur.
