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- ↑ "BOOK REVIEW: Self-Styled Adventurer’s Colorful Quest for African ‘God-Beast’: DRUMS ALONG THE CONGO: On the Trail of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosaur". Los Angeles Times.
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- ↑ Loxton, Daniel; Prothero, Donald (2013). Abominable Science: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. Columbia University Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-231-15320-1
