Case file · Cryptid
Nandi bear
A fierce, powerfully built animal reported from western Kenya, named after the Nandi people and also called Chemosit or Kerit.
1905 CE · 0.23, 35.12 · status: claim
The account
Colonial writers took up the reports in the early 1900s; in 1905 Richard Meinertzhagen guessed it might be a surviving ape. Speculation has ranged to extinct chalicotheres.
The sceptical view
There is no scientific evidence, and scientists think the accounts are misinterpreted encounters with known animals.