A neighbor lady relates the story of back in the 60’s she looked out in her back yard and saw a monkey dressed in clothes with a parrot on his shoulders. It scampered off but she called the police, who of course laughed at her.
She saw them (always together) off and on for quite a while over the next few weeks. It turned out a circus HAD lost them and she wasn’t going nuts!
From what little I know, mostly from watching the “Lion King” when my kids were younger, the rear legs being shorter than the front legs reminded me of a Hyena. And maybe they do have a terrible sound - hence using the voice of Whoppi Goldberg for one of the hyenas in the movie?
Wolves have longer and bigger toes and not the big ham this guy has. May be a descendant of the giant hyenas - sloping back - that used to patrol the land bridge.
Also in the 60's, in Oakland, CA, a man called police to report that a pig had fallen into his swimming pool.
They came out, along with animal control; looked, and told him that it wasn't a pig; it was a baby hippo.
He told them, "I know that, but if I called and said there was a hippopotamus in my pool, you wouldn't have come."