Variations: Chimpekwe
Melland gives chipekwe as referring to a one-tusked elephant in the Kaonde language of Zambia. This is probably irrelevant.
The Chipekwe is a massive, allegedly reptilian, pachyderm-slaying creature found around and in Lake Bangweulu in Zambia. Most encounters consist of unrecognizable spoors, or the noise of some large animal splashing through the water.
A chipekwe has a hairless, smooth, dark body and a single smooth horn, white as polished ivory. Chipekwes do not take well to humans invading their territory. Canoes are destroyed and their occupants are killed. Hippos fare no better – the chipekwe kills them by tearing their throats out. At least one chipekwe is known to have been slain in the Luapula, brought down by the same large harpoons used for hippo hunting.
All of the above could very well be exaggerated references to one-tusked elephants. This is probably relevant.
References
Mackal, R. (1987) A living dinosaur? E. J. Brill, New York.
Melland, F. H. (1923) In Witch-bound Africa. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.
A Book of Creatures 
The disdain you have for certain creatures is palpable
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But is that a good thing or a bad thing
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Yes
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I absolutely adore these pachyderm beasts just because their appearance seems somewhat plausible.
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But is it relevant or irrelevant?
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Yes
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You are mention relevant and irrelevant a lot in a post about proboscidean monsters.
But is it relephant irrelephant
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Aww yeah 😀
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You are mention relevant and irrelevant a lot in a post about proboscidean monsters.
But is it relephant or irrelephant?
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That too ^_^
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bonjour
Je suis Michel Ballot
Il est toujours étonnant que dans vos sources vous ne citiez que des chercheurs anglo saxons alors que notre équipe francaise travaille depuis des années à la recherche du Mokélé Mbembé, de l’Emela Nt’ouka et du lion d’eau
À la recherche du Mokélé Mbembé paru en France en 2014 il existe aussi une version anglaise
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notre blog : mokelembembeexpeditions
Cordialement
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I thought you fused all dinosaurian/rhino-like cryptids in the Mekele Mbembe?
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This one’s from a different area! The ones under mokele-mbembe all occupy the same region.
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I take it you disagree with Shuker’s contention that this is the same thing as the emela-ntouka?
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Yep
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… Including Nsanga, ALSO from Zmabia. In fact isnt the Chipekwe’s territory in in a place that you marked as a Mokele Mbembe territory?
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Good point! Although I think nsanga is generally considered synonymous with the mokele-mbembe by most, whereas the chipekwe is usually treated separately/synonymously with emela-ntouka. Different ways of splitting things I suppose.
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I’m not the one to say, but these would make great pets.
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Speaking of African monsters that have been Westernized to death, can we see the nanabolele next week? I’ve never seen it portrayed as anything other than a stereotypical Western dragon.
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