Case: GG-2026-207
Status: Historic
Documentation rating: C
Location: Nandi Hills, Rift Valley, Kenya
The Nandi Bear, also known in various accounts as Chemosit, Kerit and other regional names, is a reputed large nocturnal creature associated particularly with western Kenya and the Nandi highlands. Local traditions described dangerous beings with characteristics that later European writers compared with bears, hyenas, apes and other animals, while named colonial-era witnesses reported unfamiliar heavily built creatures with shaggy coats, prominent forequarters and unusual gaits. Beginning in the early twentieth century, naturalists collected these accounts and debated whether they represented…
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