Editing Mokele-mbembe (section)

===21st century===
In 2001, BBC's [[Congo (BBC TV series)|''Congo'']], a television documentary series on the natural history of the region, included an interview with the [[Aka people|Biaka]] people who identified the mokele-mbembe as a [[rhinoceros]] while looking at an illustrated manual of wildlife.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074mrf|title=Spirits of the Forest – min 45:00|publisher=BBC}}</ref> However, neither species of African rhinoceros is common in the Congo Basin, so the mokele-mbembe may be a mixture of [[mythology]] and [[folk memory]] from a time when rhinoceroses were found in the area.

In 2016, a travel documentary crew from [[South Africa]] made a documentary about searching for mokele-mbembe, which they later sold to Discovery Africa.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cowen |first1=Nick |title=Backpacking into the Unknown |url=https://citizen.co.za/lifestyle/lifestyle-travel/1994625/backpacking-into-the-unknown/ |website=The Citizen |date=24 August 2018 |access-date=4 October 2019 |ref=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1= |first1= |date=7 August 2018 |title=New on TV Today: Tuesday 7 August |url=https://www.tvsa.co.za/user/blogs/viewblogpost.aspx?blogpostid=49777 |access-date=4 October 2019 |website=TVSA |language=en-ZA |ref=11}}</ref> The team spent roughly four weeks in the [[Likouala Department|Likuoala]] swamp region visiting various Aka (pygmy) villages, collecting stories of the creature's existence. They pointed out the difficulty of differentiating between a mokele-mbembe's metaphysical and physical existence. While they interviewed people who believed in its presence, others stated it died at least a decade ago.<ref>{{cite web |last1=hitched |first1=Congo |title=hitched.congo Webseries |url=https://www.hitchedseries.co.za |website=hitched series |publisher=Tomfoolery TV |access-date=4 October 2019 |ref=15}}</ref>

In 2018, [[Lensgreve]] of [[Knuthenborg]], Adam Christoffer Knuth, along with a film crew from [[Danish Radio]] and a DNA scientist, traveled to [[Lake Tele]] in Congo, in search of the mokele-mbembe. They did not find the cryptid; however, they found a new species of [[green algae]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Almbjerg |first1=Sarah Iben |title=Uimodståelig Dino-jagt på DR2 |url=https://www.berlingske.dk/kultur/uimodstaaelig-dino-jagt-paa-dr2 |website=Berlingske  |access-date=2 December 2018 |language=da |date=28 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Madsen |first1=Fie West |title=Lensgreve Christoffer Knuth har brugt kæmpe summer på vild dinosaur-jagt: 'Vi fandt noget, som ingen har set før' |url=https://www.bt.dk/film-tv-og-streaming/lensgreve-christoffer-knuth-har-brugt-kaempe-summer-paa-vild-dinosaur |website=BT.dk |publisher=Berlingske Media A/S |access-date=2 December 2018 |language=da |date=28 November 2018}}</ref>