Nandi bear

Descriptions of the Nandi bear are of a ferocious, powerfully built carnivore with high front shoulders (over four feet tall) and a sloping back.

Stories of the Nandi bear state that it is fierce, nocturnal, stands on its hind legs and can kill animals.

Local legend holds that the Nandi bear has reddish hair, long feet and is said to scalp people.

[9] In 1932, the British Natural History Museum stated that many reports of the Nandi Bear have "proved to have been nothing more than a spotted hyena.

"[12] Similarly, paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson commented that the Nandi bear "turned out to be in most if not all cases a ratel [honey-badger], an animal which had been known to scientific zoologists since 1776.