Comments on: Emela-Ntouka: Africa’s Killer of Elephants http://www.cryptozoonews.com/emela-ntouka/ Posts by Loren Coleman Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:38:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Loren Coleman http://www.cryptozoonews.com/emela-ntouka/comment-page-1/#comment-784 Loren Coleman Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:08:36 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/africas-killer-of-elephants/#comment-784 Most people have a mental image of a rhinoceros as a dryland mammal because of the African savannah variety. But in general, there is much association between rhinos, water, and rivers. In Africa, the range of rhinos is determined, usually, by the waterways. The Indian rhino wallows in lakes, rivers, and temporary pools. The rhinos of Indonesia are too. Indeed, in terms of the most “primitive,” behaviorally and biologically, the Sumatran rhino, you have here a rhino in Asia while nothing like a hippo, it nevertheless is more clearly semi-aquatic in habitat and habits, than purely only dry land restricted.

As to artists’ depictions of large vs small ears, ears vs frills, and so on, this is going to have to take some sorting out between eyewitness accounts, the sculpture artists, and cryptozoologists on site.

Good discussion here.

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