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Marozi |
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The Marozi is known as the spotted lion. It looks like a lion in all respects until you notice it's coat. Then you see that it has leopard-like spots all over it's body. The Marozi is interesting because it is one of the few African cryptids to ever have several skins collected and hunters documenting their hunts. This is true also for the Thylacine but I will not go any further into that. It sadly may not exist because of over hunting and the fact that the last sighting was in 1948, but the point is that it may have once lived. There is a boatload of physical proof that it existed and the fact that nuerous hunters have noted that they had hunted Marozi.A big man in the picture was Kenneth Gandar Downer. He was the first one to bring the animal to the public's eye and did so by putting in articles about it in the field and through his book. After that many sporadic accounts came in but stopped in 1948 with the last one. What was the Marozi? Was it a new species of lion? Or was the strange coat caused by a kink in the gene pool that was widespread? We may never know. - entry provided by Greg Solstice
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