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Nandi Bear

Creature

Name:	Nandi Bear
AKA:	Kerit
Classification
Grouping:	Cryptid
Sub grouping:	Bear
Data
Country:	Kenya
Status:	Unconfirmed

The Nandi Bear is a cryptid, or unconfirmed animal, reported to live in Africa. Cryptid is a term used in the study of Cryptozoology to refer to a creature whose existence has been suggested but not demonstrated scientifically The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north Somalia to the northeast Tanzania to the south Cryptid is a term used in the study of Cryptozoology to refer to a creature whose existence has been suggested but not demonstrated scientifically It takes its name from the Nandi people who live in western Kenya, near where the Nandi Bear is reported as living. The Nandi is a Kenyan ethnic group or Tribe living in the highland areas of the Nandi Hills in Rift Valley Province; they form a sub-group of The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north Somalia to the northeast Tanzania to the south The Nandi people call it Kerit. Local legend holds that it only eats the brain of its victims.

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. The Hyaenidae is a Mammalian family of order Carnivora. The Hyaenidae family native to both African and Asian continents consists of four Some^[1] have speculated that Nandi Bears are in fact a misidentified hyena (or an unrecognized hyena subspecies).

Other than the extinct Atlas Bear, no living bear are known to be native to Africa, besides those of the prehistoric genera Agriotherium and Indarctos, which died out 4. In Biology and Ecology, extinction is the cessation of existence of a Species or group of taxa. The Atlas Bear ( Ursus arctos crowtheri) was a Subspecies of the Brown Bear, but sometimes considered a distinct Species. Agriotherium is an extinct genus of bear-like hemicyonid Carnivore, living from around 9 million to about 2 million years ago 4 million years ago. Karl Shuker states that a surviving short-faced hyaena Hyaena [now Pachycrocuta] brevirostris would "explain these cases very satisfactorily. Dr Karl P N Shuker (born 1959) is a British Zoologist living in the West Midlands, England. The Hyaenidae is a Mammalian family of order Carnivora. The Hyaenidae family native to both African and Asian continents consists of four " Louis Leakey suggested that Nandi Bear descriptions matched that of the extinct chalicotherium, though chalicotheres were herbivores. Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey ( LSB Leakey) ( August 7, 1903 – October 1 1972) was a Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist Chalicotheres (from Greek chalix, gravel + therion, beast were a group of perissodactyl Mammals that evolved in the mid Eocene ^[2]

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. This article is about sea serpents in mythology and cryptozoology An ocean (from Greek, ''Okeanos'' (Oceanus) is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the Hydrosphere. It is one of the most notorious of those legendary beasts which have, so far, eluded capture and the collector's rifle. A legendary creature is a mythological or folkloric creature (often known as "fabulous creatures" in historical literature "^[3] Nandi Bears were regularly reported in Kenya throughout the 1800s and early 1900s. Bernard Heuvelmans's On the Track of Unknown Animals and Karl Shuker's In Search of Prehistoric Survivors^[4] provide the most extensive chronicles of Nandi bear sightings in print. Bernard Heuvelmans ( October 10, 1916 &ndash August 22, 2001) was a Belgian - French scientist explorer researcher and

References

^ Shuker, 1995
^ ズーロジーネット
^ Cryptozoology.com
^ Shuker, Karl P N (1995). Dr Karl P N Shuker (born 1959) is a British Zoologist living in the West Midlands, England. In Search of Prehistoric Survivors. Blandford. ISBN 0-7137-2469-2.

Shuker, K. "Unexplained!" (Carlton 1996, 2002), p92.

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