Purported mammals

fictional species of mammal

creature from east African folklore

Species of mammals (cryptid)

Mythical creature

Waitoreke, also commonly referred to as the South Island otter, is an otter/beaver-like creature in New Zealand folklore. In its rare inferred sightings it is usually described as a small otter-like animal that lives in the South Island of New Zealand. There are many theories on the waitoreke's true identity, such as it being an otter, beaver or pinniped. New Zealand's only recognised endemic land mammals are bats—New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat and New Zealand long-tailed bat. Land mammals introduced to New Zealand by the seafaring Polynesian ancestors of Maori, apparent to the early Euro

thumb|George Scott's sketch of Gef the talking mongoose, from 1936 thumb|A 1932 article that suggested trickery and ventriloquism from Voirrey Irving was the cause of the Gef phenomena Gef ( ), also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was an allegedly talking mongoose which inhabited a farmhouse owned by the Irving family, located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s. The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry