olinguito
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish olingo + -ito (“diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
olinguito (plural olinguitos)
- Bassaricyon neblina, a raccoon-like procyonid native to the Andean forests of Colombia and Ecuador.
- 2013, August 15, "Smithsonian scientists discover new carnivore: the olinguito", Smithsonian Science
- “The discovery of the olinguito shows us that the world is not yet completely explored, its most basic secrets not yet revealed.”
- 2013, Christine Dell'Amore, "New Carnivore Revealed: Photos of the Olinguito and its Kin", National Geographic:
- A fuzzy fog-dweller with a face like a teddy bear, the olinguito (pictured) is the first carnivore discovered in the Western Hemisphere in more than three decades, a new study says.
- 2014, August 19, Jeffrey Brown, "'Crowd-sourced' Science Sheds New Light on New Mammal Olinguito", PBS Newshour [1]
- In the year since the announcement, the olinguito has gone from literal unknown to being surprisingly well-documented through photos and videos shot by amateur naturalists, bird watchers, and others, a kind of crowd-sourced science.
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- 2015, Josh Hestermann, Bethanie Hestermann,, Zoology for Kids: Understanding and Working with Animals, with 21 Activities, p. 96:
- The olinguito, one of science's recently discovered species, is part of the same family as raccoons, coatis, and kinkajous.
- 2018, Tamra B. Orr, Animal Discoveries, p. 12:
- The olinguito was found in the Andes Mountains by Smithsonian scientists in 2013.
- 2013, August 15, "Smithsonian scientists discover new carnivore: the olinguito", Smithsonian Science
Translations
mammal
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References
- Kristofer M. Helgen, C. Miguel Pinto, Roland Kays, Lauren E. Helgen, Mirian T. N. Tsuchiya, Aleta Quinn, Don E. Wilson, Jesus E. Maldonado, Taxonomic revision of the olingos (Bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the Olinguito, PenSoft Publishers Ltd, Aug 15, 2013
Further reading
olinguito on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Bassaricyon neblina on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Bassaricyon neblina on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
olinguito m (plural olinguitos)