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The Mulilo is a carnivorous giant slug-like creature said to live in the dense forests of the Congo, near the Zaire and Zambia regions.
Description
This large slug is said to be as long as 6 feet long and 12 inches wide. It is described as being grayish-white to brown to black in color. The Mulilo is also said to only appear when there is a rainbow and have poisonous breath. They are thought to slowly climb trees. Natives would supposedly catch them with cages using roosters as bait, because their flesh supposedly had magical properties.
Explanations
This cryptid could possibly be Limax maximus, the leopard slug, one of the biggest known species of slug, but Limax maximus is still only 10-20cm long, nowhere near the 6 feet that's reported for the Mulilo. Although this slug is thought to only thrive in Europe, it is believed to possibly exist in parts of Africa. As noted above, even the biggest slugs are far from the Mulilo's size. It is difficult for terrestrial organisms like slugs, which have neither an endoskeleton nor an exoskeleton, to grow large and support their own weight. For this reason, the Mulilo is most likely a vertebrate of some kind. Based on this, it is reasonable to assume that they are snakes or some type of amphibian.
If the true identity is an amphibian, the most likely theory is that it is an unknown Caecilian species. It looks the most like a slug among amphibians, and since it is a vertebrate, it has fewer restrictions on its size than slugs.
The black version of the Mulilo might be a melanistic form of the Gaboon Viper, a venomous snake about the same size as the Mulilo. For snakes, they are stout and slow, making them more likely to be mistaken for a giant slug.
On the other hand, there are no eyewitness accounts of any kind, so this may not be a cryptid, but merely a creature of folklore.