1906 engraving of a black honey badger from the Ituri Rainforest.
The too or tu was a bear-like cryptid reported from East Africa by Hans Schomburgk, who described it as a black-furred animal the size of a goat, with dog-like teeth.[1] Bernard Heuvelmans theorized that it may have been a melanistic or elderly honey badger (Melivora capensis), which lose the silvery colouration on their backs as they increase in age and in size.[2]
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- ↑ Schomburgk, Hans (1910) Wild und Wilde im Herzen Afrikas
- ↑ Heuvelmans, Bernard (1955) On the Track of Unknown Animals, Routledge, ISBN 978-1138977525