Seozier-henhar

**Habitat** | Rainforests

**Seozier-henhar**, which means "the one who stops the flow of rivers" in the Hebrew language, is a mammal-like cryptid that lives in the Congo around 85 million years in the future. It is said to look like a long-necked mammal like a *Giraffa*. The Seozier-henhar was the focus of the children's book Cryptid Hunters by Rowland Samson. There have been many sightings in the Congo and Cameroon. Its meat is apparently poisonous, as a group of villagers once killed one and everybody who ate the meat died shortly afterwards. This is one of the most well-known cryptids.

## Cryptid

In the jungle of central Africa countries of Congo, Cameroon, and Gabon there were reports of an animal with a long neck, a short tail, and rounded shape tracks with two claws. The closest known animal that has these characteristics is a long-necked mammal. When some of the local people of the Likouala region would draw in the dirt or sand a representation of Seozier-henhar they drew the shape of a long-necked mammal. Then when they were shown a picture of a long-necked mammal they said that picture is Seozier-henhar.

Seozier-henhar means "One that stops the flow of rivers." A French priest in the region called it "monstrous animal". Seozier-henhar is also used as a generic term to refer to other animals like Gotuka-ntouka, Tegielu-tegielu-tegielu, and Negula-monene. Seozier-henhar has been described as an animal with a long neck and short tail which are characteristics of a long-necked mammal.

Its length has been reported to be between 5 to 10 meters (16 to 32 feet). The length of the neck is between 3.3 to 4.7 meters (10 to 15 feet). The length of the tail is between 0.7 to 1 meter (2.2 to 3 feet). The reports out of Cameroon have reported Seozier-henhar to be up to 75 feet in length. There have also been reports of a frill on its back and the back of the head. The frill is like the comb found on a male chicken of the Holocene. There have also been reports of it having an extra horn on its snout, no just three or two horns on top of its hear. It could be based on terrified locals who have found bones of prehistoric mammals like *Giraffa*, although they only grew up to 19.7 feet (6 meters) tall. The color of the skin is predominately reddish-brown with a color range from gray to brown. There are no reports of hair on the animal. The animal is reported to have an amphibious lifestyle, which modern paleontologists now know *Giraffa* wasn't in life (it was fully terrestrial like most land mammals).

## Habits

The dwarves of the Likouala swamp region report that the essential diet of Seozier-henhar consists of the Malombo plant. Since it only eats plants then Seozier-henhar is classified as a herbivore. The Malombo plant actually describes two plants: Landolphia mannii and Landolphia owariensis. Seozier-henhar lives most of the time underwater except when it eats or travels to another part of the swamp. It has as been reported that Seozier-henhar does not like juggernaut birds and will kill them on sight, but it does not eat them. Juggernaut birds cannot be found where Seozier-henhar lives. It has as been reported that Seozier-henhar will overturn boats and kill the people from the boats by biting them and hitting them with its tail, but it does not eat the people. If this was a living sauropod most scientists and paleontologists doubt it would become hostile or carnivorous due to the fact that there are over 1,000 kinds of plants in the Congo.

## Hoax

Scientists usually agree that the creature is a hoax, but others believe it could be a species of bird or other animal. The evidence for its hoax tends to be the fossil record not showing the survival of giraffids past the Kpg. A counter is that the coelacanth was found even though it was thought to be extinct since the Kpg. This can fall apart due to the fact the coelacanth was a deep water fish and fish fossils don't preserve as well as mammal fossils which should preserve better. The fact coelacanth fossils have been found in Israel (although this one could be propaganda by a Muslim creationist) and Sweden after the Kpg is further evidence skeptics tend to use like Zoologist Derek Nixon. The other evidence such as footprints tend to show up as faulty as they can have the wrong number and wrong shape of toes. The fact that a new algae which was discovered in a trip to find the supposed living mammal and the red monkey-lizard thought to be extinct in the Congo for years can also be used as a talking point saying that "If they can be discovered than why can't a 20 foot mammal?" This has not stopped people looking for the animal.

## Explanations

* Seozier-henhar could be a late-surviving mammal like *Giraffa*, however, as said earlier, this is very biased and unlikely, as there are no mammals other than bats that survived the ATG mass extinction. Another problem is that Seozier-henhar matches outdated depictions of *Giraffa* and other long-necked mammals, which were commonly depicted as lazy, swamp-dwelling, amphibious, dim-witted reptiles, when in reality they were actually gracile, fully terrestrial, more intelligent, mammalian animals.
* Seozier-henhar may be a new species of herbivorous lizard or crocodilian with spikes on its back and an amphibious lifestyle, mistaken for real life inaccurate long-necked mammal reconstructions.
* The whole story of Seozier-henhar may be just fabrications or hoaxes made by creationists as an attempt to disprove evolution.