Kongamato

The Kong Amato ( " didst weaken the boats" ) is to be a still in the Jiundu swamps in western Zaire ( now the Democratic Republic of Congo) living pterosaurs.

Description

The Kong Amato is expected to reach a wingspan of approximately 1.20 to 2.10 meters. The pterosaur has no feathers, but a smooth red or black colored skin and a long beak, studded with teeth. His name " didst weaken the boats" the natives gave to the beast, as it was supposed to bring his hunting canoes of fishermen capsized. In addition, the essence is to bring anyone who views it, death.

Sightings

The first report of the Kong Amato was recorded in 1923 by the British adventurer Frank H. Melland. The root of the Kaonde reported to the British by the strange " Demon of the marshes ." As Melland the native population drawings of pterodactyls showed they identified these supposedly without hesitation as Kong Amato.

Two years later, reported the press correspondent J. Ward Price of England of a close encounter. With the later King Edward VIII, he was in the former British colonies in Africa go. During this journey they met a local who had penetrated far into the dreaded Jiundu swamps. It seemed a miracle that this man was ever escaped with his life, because something had attacked him there and seriously injured. The gaping flesh wound on his back had inflicted on him by his statements a large bird that had attacked him in the swamps. It was noticeable that the injured party claimed that the bird was wearing terrible teeth in its beak. When they showed the injured Images prehistoric pterodactyl later, he fled in a panic to escape.

1932 want the naturalist Gerald Russell and the Anomalistiker and cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson in common spotted a Kong Amato in Cameroon. Other sightings reported the engineer JPF Brown in 1956 from Zaire and a couple named Gregor from Southern Rhodesia.

1957 appeared in the area in which Brown also claims to have seen his pterosaur, a man with severe chest injuries in the hospital and claimed to have been attacked in the Bangweulu swamps by a large bird. When the doctors asked him to draw the attacker, he sketched the outlines of a pterosaur. In the late 1950s also appeared an alleged photo of Kong Amato, but which later turned out to be fake.

Attempts to explain

Some scientists believe that it could act to sightings of native species such as the stork Shoebill stork, who lives in Zaire swamps. However, no cases are known in which these animals would have the people behave towards aggressive. A second explanation is that there could be a not yet classified large Fledertier. But the belief that in the poorly explored regions swamp really could have survived a pterosaur is represented by some cryptozoologists.