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
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