Rumors are running rampant that Elmo killed a banth yesterday during filming.

"It was awesome!" said film spokesman Ga-Be. "The banth went wild, mauling several crewmen before Elmo leaped on the animal's back and stabbed him to death, saving hundreds of people."

But one crewman painted a different picture of the incident.

"I doubt if Elmo killed a banth," said the crewman, who asked to remain nameless. "He sure didn't kill it using that prop butter knife."

"Yes, Elmo did kill a banth," added another assistant on the set. "But it was an old, declawed, defanged, drugged, nine-legged banth."

Elmo himself was sporting a big grin during a meeting with entertainment reporters.

"I'm just glad there are no animal rights activists on this planet," he said. "After I killed the banth, the crowd cheered."

Meanwhile, an unidentified wildman is wanted for disturbing the peace on the set, which is on location in the Great Toonolian Marshes.

At first, authorities thought it was Lincoln himself who was running around in a loincloth, screaming at the top of his lungs, and crashing into trees.

But that speculation proved untrue, and some experts now believe a real-life jungle lord might be roaming the marshes.

Animal expert Jayna Goodo reports observing a savage human cavorting with a tribe of wild soraks in the region.

The age of the suspected wildman would correspond with the crash of a royal flier from Ptarth about 18 years ago.

"My brother's wife had just laid her egg and they were on their way to Helium to visit Thuvia," said the Jeddak of Ptarth, Thuvan Dihn. "They were never heard from again. By the whiskers of my first ancestor! Could this 'jungle lord' be my little nephew, Lord Bloomstoke, raised by wild house pets?"

Handwriting experts are examining a black book found near the wreckage of a flier.

The task has proven difficult because the book is written in Warhoon, according to a drunken source.

"And they don't use nouns," the source slurred.