num_pages: 340
description: During the 1980s Mackal turned his attention to another legendary creature the Mokele-mbembe an alleged living dinosaur in the Likouala swamp region of the Republic of Congo. Accompanied by University of Arizona ecologist Richard Greenwell and Congolese biologist Marcellin Agnagna Mackal undertook two expeditions the first in 1980 and the second in 1981 to find and photograph the creature. Mackal himself did not actually see the creature but he and his colleagues did collect multiple firsthand reports from Congo natives who according to Mackal consistently described a creature similar to a long-necked sauropod. During his interviews with the natives Mackal also heard anecdotes about the Emela-ntouka another possible living dinosaur which supposedly resembles a Monoclonius or Centrosaurus the Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu which is said to resemble a Kentrosaurus and the snake- or lizard-like Nguma-monene. In 1987 Mackal wrote a book about his adventures in the Likouala swamps cal
language: English
title: A Living Dinosaur?: In Search of Mokele-Mbembe
publisher: Brill Academic Pub