STRANGE CREATURES
Aug 07, 2020
3 minutes
COMPILED BY JACO HOUGH-COETZEE
INFOGRAPHIC: MICHAEL DE LUCCHI
FROM mythological creatures that never existed to animals that have gone extinct and those that just look weird – we look at the world’s seven most unusual national animals.
CHOLLIMA
COUNTRY: NORTH KOREA
The Chollima, also spelled Qianlima, is a mythological winged horse. It features in stories told since the third century BC in China. The word Chollima means “thousand-li horse” (li is a distance measure).
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