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“For nights the whole town lived in fear, and although we doubled the police-guards we had difficulty in getting the men to go on duty. But I have seen those same men rout a lion out of a bush-patch with sticks! They swore that this beast was not a lion, nor a leopard, but a Mngwa." (Captain William Hitchens) A common trait of mystery big cats, besides their general elusiveness, seems to be their general aggressivity towards humans. The “strange one”, the Mngwa of Tanzania, makes no exception. Local songs about the creature date back to the 12th century, but the first European hunters and settlers dismissed them as old wives’ tales and cock-and-bull stories until the numbers of reports grew from the 1890s to the 1920s and Cpt Hitchens, one of the local colonial authorities, described one badly mauled victim of the Mngwa clutching tufts of grey hair in his hands. Hunting parties organised to run the Mngwa to ground usually ended up like the clichés from a story by Rice Burroughs or Rider Haggard. Either the tracks found petered out in the mountains or the native bearers and even seasoned lion hunters at some point simply refused to follow up into the territory supposed to be roamed by the “strange one” and thus, the Mngwa’s existence remains a mystery to this day. Described as being as big as a donkey and as grey with brindled fur, the Nunda, as it is sometimes called, clearly stands out from the rest of the African big cats. Speculations about what it might actually be vary accordingly, but the persistence of the tales over almost a millennium more or less rule out the possibility of a occasionally occurring mutation of a lion or a leopard. A giant variant of the rare African golden cat has been assumed and certainly the most exiting explanation is the possibility of a surviving small population of the Pleistocene panthera crassidens. Panthera crassidens was something along the lines of an overgrown leopard with the jaws reminiscent of that of a tiger. However, an unknown sub-species of the tiger living hidden in Africa has been frequently brought into play as well. Outside of Africa, reports of so-called Blue or Maltese Tigers with bluish fur and dark grey stripes have been recorded from East Asia, but who knows, maybe the remote areas of Tanzania are its haunt and not China or Burma? Whatever may be the case, the “strange one” found a home in the open-air-enclosure of the #wunderkammer   in the guise of a blue tiger, as a reminiscence of old tales of adventure from Africa and a reminder that these stories still exist, unexplained to the days, to be wondered and marvelled at. Accordingly, artists’s imagination of blue tigers are depicted above, found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_tiger, looking quite similar to the Mngwa’s supposed appearance. And more about the Mngwa can be found on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mngwa

“Oh, now and then you will hear grown-ups say, 'Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots?' I don't think even grown-ups would keep on saying such a silly thing if the Leopard and the Ethiopian hadn't done it once—do you? But they will never do it again, Best Beloved. They are quite contented as they are.“ (Rudyard Kipling “How the Leopard Got His Spots“) It was scene quite out of an adventure novel that took place on the Kinangop Plateau north of Nairobi in British Kenya, not far from the Wanjohi Valley and Idina Sackville’s scandalous Happy Valley Set in 1923. In the drizzling rain, at an elevation of 11,500’ on the edge of the mountain forest, a gentleman with the distinctive name of George Hamilton-Snowball, sighted two big cats, rather large and somewhat soggy leopards with tawny fur. Turning to his Kikuyu guide to get his rifle, he heard the man whisper: ”Marozi! Marozi!” While pushing off the safety catch of his gun and taking aim, the two felines melted into the forest, but by then, Hamilton-Snowball’s whole crew of bearers and guides murmured the word. Asking for an explanation, the Kikuyu answered they were not lion, “simba" in Swahili or “muruthi” in his own language. Muruthi would never venture up high into the forests of the Kinangop. But marozi lived there, larger than “ngari”, the leopard, but spotted and smaller than muruthi. A spotted lion. Marozi. Sightings of the Kenyan spotted lion have been recorded since 1903 in the region of the Aberdare Mountains, always in comparatively high altitudes and with the felines always in pairs. A local farmer, Michael Trent succeeded in 1931 where Hamilton-Snowball failed roughly ten years before. He managed to shoot a marozi duo at 10,000’ in the Aberdares, one male, one female. The skin of the male ended up in London’s Natural History Museum and described as follows: “"It is a male, measuring approximately: - head and body 5ft. 101/2 in., tail, without terminal hairs of the tuft, 2 ft. 9 in., making a total of about 8 ft. 8 in. This is of course small for adult East African lions, of which the dressed skins may surpass 10 ft. over all. From its size I guessed it to be about three years old, a year or more short of full size. There is nothing particularly noticeable in its mane, which is small and, except on the cheeks, consists of a mixture of tawny, grey and black hairs, the longest up to about 5 in. in length. ... the peculiarity of the skin lies in the distinctness of the pattern of spots, consisting of large "jaguarine" rosettes arranged in obliquely vertical lines and extending over the flanks, shoulders and thighs up to the darker spinal area where they disappear. They are irregular in size and shape, the largest measuring 85 by 45 or 65 by 65 mm in diameter. Their general hue is pale greyish-brown, with slightly darkened centres, but at the periphery they are thrown into relief by the paler tint of the spaces between them. On the pale cream-buff belly, the solid richer buff spots stand out tolerably clearly. The legs are covered with solid spots, more distinct than the rosettes of the flanks, and on the hind legs they are more scattered and a deeper, more smoky grey tint than on the fore legs.“ The last encounters with marozis took place a couple of years before Kenya’s independence in 1963, but speculations about the nature of the spotted lions have been made well into the 21th century. From dismissing their existence completely as Romantic tall tales from a bygone colonial era, to a rather simple genetic aberration that let lions retain their juvenile spots into adulthood and the rather plain explanation that the marozi were just adolescent lions. Another explanation might be a natural hybridisation between lions and leopards. Crossbreeding of the two felid species has been carried out since the late 19th century, resulting in hybrids called leopons, looking somewhat like the description of the marozi. And, of course, there is always the possibility that marozi, with its unique habit of hunting in pairs, its distinct living environment and size, is what the locals think it is – a yet undiscovered species. In any case, the marozi is naturally very welcome at the open-air enclosure of the #wunderkammer   where it can contemplate its own existence and identity in conditions appropriate for the species at its own leisure. Depicted below is a picture of a spotted lion, probably an adolescent that has retained its juvenile spots, but looking quite like a marozi – interestingly enough, the picture was allegedly taken at Nakuru, close to the foothills of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya. The image was found on: http://passion-des-felins.forum-actif.net/t367p15-le-lion-tachete-du-kenya-ou-marozi And more on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marozi

and more about the Congolese Spotted Lion on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congolese_Spotted_Lion

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