Mlularuka

Lord Derby's scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus derbianus).

The mlularuka or winged jackal was a cryptid canid reported from Tanzania, described as an animal very much like a jackal, except it has wings and flies like a bat. Kraalsmen in Tanzania said that it often flew in their fruit-gardens, raiding mango trees and pomegranates and crying out loudly in the dusk.

William Hichens, George Eberhart, and Karl Shuker all believe the mlularuka was a flying squirrel - Hichens said a new species two-and-a-half feet long, but Eberhart and Shuker describe it as a Lord Derby's scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus derbianus), which was not known from East Africa at that time.