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i like how in unfinished reverie huitztlan is the tribe who stands for dragons the most and how yupanqui's wish was to live in coexistence with them and how burkina's story is all about his companionship with kongamato and eventually died for him and how kinich's teaser is about protecting a yumkasaur and her baby and how mavuika is so often shown with those baby yumkasaurs. scions of the canopy i love you as much as you love your dragons

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Described in Frank Hulme Melland's "In Witch-Bound Africa". The Kongamato is freshwater monster whose primary domain is the Jiwundu Swamp. It destroys boats and drowns humans by causing sudden flooding in rivers.

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KONGAMATO

A strange flying reptile, possibly a descendant of a pterosaur, a close relative of the more familiar pterodactyl, which are said to have been seen in the Jiundu swamps in the Mwinilunga district of western Zambia, near the border of Congo and Angola. In 1923, a traveller reported this creature to be smooth skinned, with a wing span of 4-7 ft and a beak full of teeth. Local people knew these creatures well, calling them Kongamato ('Overwhelmer of Boats'). They are usually described as either black or red in colour and they had a reputation for capsizing canoes. When shown a drawing of a pterosaur, every native present immediately and unhesitatingly identified it as a Kongamato. Further reports appeared in 1925, when a distinguished English newspaper correspondent reported a sighting of a winged creature in Rhodesia in a place widely known as the abode of demons. In 1942, another traveller reported stories the natives had told him of a large bat-like creature that lived in northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in a dense swampy region. Even to look upon it meant death.

Text from The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures by John and Caitlin Matthews (HarperElement, 2005)

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This illustration of the kongamato was drawn by Philippe Coudray in his 2009 book Guide des animaux cachés. This creature was claimed to be seen in Zambia and Zimbabwe, especially in the Jiwundu Swamp of Zambia. It was originally talked about in stories by the Kaondé people, however no actual sightings of a creature resembling the kongamato were claimed until the 1950s. While the Kaondé people described the kongamato as a flying lizard, the 1950s brought in sightings of pterosaur-like creatures.

While some researchers do believe in the surviving pterosaur theory, others disagree. Some believe it may just be a misidentified existing species, such as a large species of bat. Sightings appear to have stopped before 1997, as some reports state that native residents of the Jiwundu Swamp no longer recognize the descriptions of the kongamato.

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Kongamato

Deep in the bush of east central Africa, lives a beaked, flying creature called the Kongamato. This fascinating animal first received widespread attention when explorer Frank Welland described it in his 1932 book In Witchbound Africa. The Kongamato (“overwhelmer of boats”), is described as a large, reddish creature with leathery wings, devoid of feathers. Eyewitnesses who are shown an illustration of the pterodactyl unanimously agreed to this identification of the Kongamato. “The evidence for the pterodactyl is that the natives can describe it so accurately, unprompted, and that they all agree about it. There is negative support also in the fact that they said they could not identify any other of the prehistoric monsters which I showed them…The natives do not consider it to be an unnatural thing like a mulombe [demon] only a very awful thing, like a man-eating lion or a rogue elephant, but infinitely worse… I have mentioned the Jiundu swamp [northwestern Zambia] as one of the reputed haunts of the kongamato, and I must say that the place itself is the very kind of place in which such a reptile might exist, if it is possible anywhere.” (Welland, 1932, pp. 238, 240.)

The “Kongamato” of Africa

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Kongamato, the 156th Known One.