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  2. Brown greater galago - Wikipedia

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    Ventrally, the fur is cream to yellow colored. The tail is usually light brown in this subspecies and the feet and hands lack darkening pattern. [5] [7] The brown greater galago has a head-and-body length of 26 to 47 cm (32 cm on average), a tail length of 29 to 55 cm, and a weight of 0.5 to 2 kg.

  3. Common spotted cuscus - Wikipedia

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    The common spotted cuscus has an unspecialised dentition, allowing it to eat a wide variety of plant products. [8] It eats the leaves of ficus, alstonia, and slonea plants, nectar, and the fruits of ficus, lithocarpus, aglia, and possibly mischocarpus and pometia plants. [9] It is also known to eat flowers, small animals, and occasionally eggs.

  4. Sea otter - Wikipedia

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    With up to 150,000 strands of hair per square centimetre (970,000/in 2), its fur is the densest of any animal. [32] The fur consists of long, waterproof guard hairs and short underfur; the guard hairs keep the dense underfur layer dry. [29] There is an air compartment between the thick fur and the skin where air is trapped and heated by the ...

  5. Mustelidae - Wikipedia

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    The sea otter, which has the densest fur of any animal, [15] narrowly escaped the fate of the sea mink. The discovery of large populations in the North Pacific was the major economic driving force behind Russian expansion into Kamchatka , the Aleutian Islands , and Alaska , as well as a cause for conflict with Japan and foreign hunters in the ...

  6. Largest and heaviest animals - Wikipedia

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    One giant squid specimen that washed ashore in 1878 in Newfoundland reportedly measured 16.8 m (55 ft) in total length (from the tip of the mantle to the end of the long tentacles), head and body length 6.1 m (20 ft), 4.6 m (15 ft) in circumference at the thickest part of mantle, and weighed about 900 kg (2,000 lb). This specimen is still often ...

  7. Red ruffed lemur - Wikipedia

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    They have slender bodies and long legs. Red ruffed lemurs have a narrow snout with small back ears that are sometimes hidden by their long fur. They groom themselves using their toothcomb. [citation needed] As their name would suggest, they have a rust-coloured ruff and body. Their heads, stomachs, tails, feet, and the insides of their legs are ...

  8. Bigmouth buffalo - Wikipedia

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    Like other catostomids it has a long dorsal fin, but unlike all other extant species it has a terminal (forward-facing) mouth reflecting its unique, pelagic feeding ecology. It is the largest of the buffalofishes and can reach a length of more than 4 ft (1.2 m) and 80 lb (36 kg) in weight. Generally it lives in lakes, or in sluggish areas of ...

  9. Capybara - Wikipedia

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    The capybara has a heavy, barrel-shaped body and short head, with reddish-brown fur on the upper part of its body that turns yellowish-brown underneath. Its sweat glands can be found in the surface of the hairy portions of its skin, an unusual trait among rodents. [7] The animal lacks down hair, and its guard hair differs little from over hair ...