thumb|Crocotta, as illustrated in a medieval [[bestiary]]
The crocotta or corocotta, crocuta, leucrocotta, or leucrotta is a mythical dog-wolf of India or Aethiopia, linked to the hyena and said to be a deadly enemy of men and dogs.
Ancient accounts
thumb|A mosaic depicting a crocotta (Greek: Κροκόττας), which in this case closely resembles a [[striped hyena. The mosaic in Palestrina depicts the river Nile and its fauna]]
thumb|right|Drawing collected by Felix Platter, to be used in Historiae animalium (1551–1558). [[Manticore and Crocotta]]
Strabo, who uses the word "crocuttas", describes the beast as the mixed progeny of a wolf and a dog (Geographica, XVI.4.16]).
Pliny in his work Natural History (VIII.72 and 107) describes the crocotta as a hybrid between a hyena and lion: