Modern Dinosaurs of the Congo

    African Forest Behemoth: A close cousin of the enormous bush behemoth, the forest behemoth is much smaller, only 15 tons. The dense rainforest of Western Africa were this dinosaur lives can't support animals as big as those oft he savannah, and such giants can;t move through the jungle as easily as smaller ones. So as a consequence of the lack of food and restricted space, the forest behemoth is both smaller and less social than its savannah relatives. Single individuals or mothers with young carve wide paths through the forest, giving smaller animals open paths to walk. Animals only gather in large numbers at a salt lick; large clearings with mud holes with salt-enriched sediment. Behemoths and any other jungle herbivores gather here to consume the sediment and supplement their diets with salt, which can also neutralize any poisons they've ingested. 

    Mbembe: The mbeme is a titanosaur that lives according to the old notions that sauropods like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus were aquatic swamp-dwellers. While those sauropods, and most modern forms are terrestrial, the mbembe spends most of its day half, submerged in rivers and watering holes throughout sub-Sahara Africa. They weigh around 20 tons and eat huge amounts of aquatic plant every day. They have barrel shaped bodies, short squat legs, and eyes, ears, and nostrils on the top of their heads, adaptations for an amphibious lifestyle. Their huge size and thick hide protects them from hungry crocodiles in the water or griffins and smaller abelisaurs on land, where they spend their nights grazing on grass and other plants lining the banks or shores of their rivers and lakes.