The bumé was a cryptid ungulate reported from western Zambia and northern Botswana by the explorer David Livingstone (1813 – 1873), associated with reports of African unicorns.[1] It was described to Livingstone as a one-horned, hippopotamus-sized animal which lived on the land, but snorted like a hippo.[2][3] Livingstone believed it to be a rhinoceros, eventually settling on a relative of the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis),[2] a theory still supported by many cryptozoologists regarding African unicorns, forest rhinoceroses, and water rhinoceroses.
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- ↑ Blyth, Edward "A Memoir on the Living Asiatic Species of Rhinoceros," Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. 31 (1863)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Livingstone, David "Explorations Into the Interior of Africa," Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 24 (1854)
- ↑ Livingstone, David & Schapera, Isaac (1960) Livingstone's Private Journals, 1851-1853