Beasts and Monsters: Veo the Giant Pangolin

 

Pangolins, also known as Scaly Ant Eaters are known for their protective scales (the only mammal know to possess them). They are solitary and nocturnal animals, living in burrows and hollowed out trees. They prefer to keep to themselves and will curl up if attacked by a larger predator but they also posses sharp claws and the ability to spray like a skunk. Wikipedia: Pangolin

The veo was a cryptid reported from the Indonesian island of Rinca^↗, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It is described as a large animal comparable to a gigantic pangolin, and some cryptozoologists identify it with the Pleistocene pangolin Manis palaeojavanica.^[3][4]

The veo was first described by the French naturalist Pierre Pfeffer^↗ (1927 – 2016), who took part in a 1956 animal collecting expedition to Borneo and the islands of Komodo National Park, including Rinca. In his narrative of the expedition, Bivouacs à Borneo (1963), Pfeffer wrote that an elderly Rinca hunter, who claimed to have once seen a veo, described the animal to him in detail.

Read more here: Veo and Wikipedia: Manis Palaeojavanica