Comments on: Maybe Mokele-Mbembes Are Mammals

By: IndyGuy99

IndyGuy99 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:50:17 +0000

I agree with the mammal theory. Perhaps to adapt to a semiaquatic life an indricothere or indricothere like animal now has a long and pointed tail like an otter. I can really see someone seeing a long tailed indricothere feeding in a river and thinking it is a dinosaur.

By: wshinhamjr

wshinhamjr — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:35:28 +0000

I could entertain the mammal theory but in the program several natives were reported to have said the thing had like a “frill” on its neck or head. Sounds much more like a reptile to me than a mammal, and as large as it seems it could be a evolutionalized surviving dinosaur species. I would not rule it out.

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:39:46 +0000

I’ve been saying this for years! Seriously, the Indricotherium or some close relative is a far better fit for Mokele Mbembe than any Sauropod Dinosaur, whose heyday had long since passed ere the Cretaceous was even half over. The same would hold true for the so-called “Sirrush Dragon” and the stories of Behemoth, if one chose to posit the -possibility of a real-life counterpart to such things. Not surprisingly, others have suggested Sauropods for them too, and even seen fit (Not entirely unjustifiably, I might add) to link them to Mokele Mbembe as well.

By: lincoln s

lincoln s — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:41:02 +0000

anyways the indricothere idea is more likely though the description fits a sauropod better. one other thing you know how some say saurpods lugs would collapse if they went in water well I recently had a talk with a paleontologist and he told me about a find his freind found. it was a brachiosaur with shrimp lodged in it’s teeth. which would only happen if it head was submerged adding a little credibility to arguement if sauropods could swim or not

By: norman-uk

norman-uk — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:06:35 +0000

Sorry the CONGO programme I mentioned is on UK sky today 24 6 09 (Several times) not as i wrote july, Enjoy! but looks as if we have to wait until winter to see Monster Quest.

Pygmys maybe sometimes be described as ”children of the forest” but I dont see what they say about mokele-mbembi cannot be considered as good or better than what anyone else says. THEY are the experts and what witness today is not compromised or enlightened by cultural contact?

OR we end up with a situation where nobodies witness is valid -because its been on television or in films. This is the sort of augument used by your scoftics. In due course we likely to lose the chance as the Bakka get put in little bungalows and get to watch the Xfactor and other modern delights.

Sure use discretion with witness statements, but whats new about this

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:00:07 +0000

interesting idea. I’m not sure if the descriptions match, but then again, it does depend on how the questions were asked and so on and so forth.

I have come to see that physical descriptions of things are complex because everyone brings their own experience to the table. Thus we have our chimeras and sometimes descriptions take on chimera like traits.

While everyone wants a dinosaur to be roaming the jungles of Africa and anywhere else, I would be as excited over any kind of previously thought extinct animal…mammal or otherwise.

By: lincoln s

lincoln s — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:31:50 +0000

and though this is a little bit off subject you know how some say styracosaurus( which is thought to be the explanation for the ngoubou) bones have only been found in america assuming the styracosaurus survived until or past the ice age and assuming they were warm bloode (which is supported by the fact that they are said to give birth to live young) shouldn’t have been able to cross the bering land bridge and and have been able to make their way to africa because it seems to me that few people take this into consideration.

By: norman-uk

norman-uk — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:31:46 +0000

CryptoImformant 2.0

The programme featuring the Bakka and the mekole-mbembi is being shown several times on Eden at sky tv 24/7. The Bakka became almost family when discovery (?) did a series on them and their music often ambushed me into a hum thereafter. What became of little Ali?

Being a reptile and cold blooded mokele-mbembi could eat well on less and keep out of site and sight whereas a large mammal would likely be constantly eating and therefore more visible and not the cryptid we almost know! I appreciate an elephant can seemingly disappear but I should think its at the end of the size scale for that kind of magic.

I’m assuming M-M would be cold blooded and a herbivore but maybe not. Certainly it seems unlikely a dinosaur would still be around and even more so if it was warm blooded or a carnivore. An opportunistic omnivore maybe.

Is it overdue for someone to review the 1913 translation of mokele-mbembi? The one given I find a questionable name for any creature except for something like a giant beaver and it might have been given rather arbitrarily in the first place.But the name should give us a clue as to the nature of its subject

By: Dr. Strings

Dr. Strings — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:10:27 +0000

I’m not sure if it’s been mentioned already, but I recall a very interesting point brought up in a Lake Tele documentary. One of the scientists claimed that the area where Tele is located is one of the extremely rare spots on earth that hasn’t migrated from it’s location from the continental shifts since the time of dinosaurs. His point was that he believes the climate has changed very little since 65 million + years ago, lending some sort of credence to the possibility of the region being able to support dinosaurs. Even if Mokele doesn’t exist, it’s a pretty amazing and interesting region of earth.

By: gavinf

gavinf — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:02:30 +0000

The idea of a mammal is actually pretty fascinating. Like a lot of posters on here, I would prefer a dinosaur. Nonetheless, if the mokele-mbembe is proven, good enough.
What is, I think, not a powerful argument against it is the tail. Yes, the tail of the ancient indricothere or relative is relatively small. Of the animals discovered so far. If mokele-mbembe is a relative or similar animal, and no fossils discovered, that does not mean it is not a mammal. And who’s to say a long-tailed version of the indricothere did not develop anyway?
Still, here’s hoping it’s a dinosaur!