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~ Sunday, November 16, 2003
REST OF THE BESTIARY 13 unusual mammals you probably haven’t heard of: aplodontia - small rodent of NW USA; looks like someone has put batteries in a toy beaver baiji - long-beaked, nearly blind dolphin found near China binturong - shaggy, sloth-like tree-cat of Borneo with orange eyes colocolo - beady-eyed Chilean tree mouse which lives on bamboo gelada - Ethiopian baboon which looks like it has been let loose in a lipstick factory, then blow-dried pacarana - rare, sleepy beast of the Colombian jungle which stares at its food before eating it quoll - vicious cat-like Australian marsupial with a spotty coat salano - Madagascan mongoose which performs acrobatics to throw eggs at stones with its hind legs serow - mysterious and revered grey mountain goat of India which spends most of its life asleep solenodon - long-legged, long snouted West indian mole, slow-moving and clumsy teledu - short-tailed Indonesian badger whose foul anal secretions were used in perfume-making uakari - Brazilian monkey with shaggy grey hair and odd, naked crimson humanoid face yapok - cheeky long-legged, rat-like swimming marsupial of Mexico Source: various |