The people who did not believe in paranormal and extraterrestrial claims speculated it could be a seal crossed with a monkey charred beyond recognition, or a donkey, aborted horse, badly shrivelled dead dog, or even a Tikoloshe (a supernatural beast in Zulu mythology).
The mysterious claims came to an end after a local doctor Dr Magdalena Braum of The Crags Veterinary Clinic performed an autopsy of the alien-like creature and confirmed — it was nothing more than a mummified baby baboon. She explained saying, “It was a newborn female baboon, with umbilical cord still attached to her body. It was most likely killed by the bite through her skull soon after birth, possibly infanticide, which is very common in some primate species when a new male takes over the troop." Further, she said the baby baboon is mummified as it was carried by the mother after death — a common habit of female baboons to carry the deceased infants on their tail section for as long as 3-4 weeks before discarding them finally. The Veterinary doctor says this is the reason why the creature has unusually long and narrow mid-body segment, that it is just a stretch.
