Tuesday, October 2, 2012

New Mammal Species in Peru

An expedition to Peru's Tabaconas Namballe National Sanctuary has led to the discovery of at least nine possible new mammal species, including a night monkey and this "enigmatic" porcupine. ("Enigmatic" is zoology-speak for an organism that might be a new, unnamed species but has not yet been certified as such, and might turn out to be a strange-looking individual of a known species.)

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