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  2. Fossa (animal) - Wikipedia

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    The fossa is known to eviscerate its larger lemur prey, a trait that, along with its distinct scat, helps identify its kills. [29] Long-term observations of the fossa's predation patterns on rainforest sifakas suggest that the fossa hunts in a subsection of their range until prey density is decreased, then moves on. [ 34 ]

  3. Cryptoprocta spelea - Wikipedia

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    The fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) is a smaller relative of C. spelea that still survives.. Although some morphological differences between the two fossa species have been described, [17] these may be allometric (growth-related), and in their 1986 Mammalian Species account of the fossa, Michael Köhncke and Klaus Leonhardt wrote that the two were morphologically identical. [18]

  4. Neurectomy - Wikipedia

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    There are several different surgical approaches that can be used to complete this procedure: the middle cranial fossa, retrolabrynthine, retrosigmoid, and translabrynthine. [9] The middle cranial fossa approach is one that most often requires neurosurgical expertise.

  5. The Foul Flirting Method of Male Ring-Tailed Lemurs - AOL

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    Although there are more than 100 species of lemurs, the ring-tailed lemur is arguably the most well-known thanks to King Julien in the hit children’s film Madagascar. His need to “move it ...

  6. Kirindy Forest - Wikipedia

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    Pygmy mouse lemur; Red-fronted brown lemur; Red-tailed sportive lemur; Verreaux's sifaka; The Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) is a diminutive, shy and nocturnal primate. This lemur is the smallest primate in the world (Gron 2009). The red-tailed sportive lemur is also present in the forest, a nocturnal lemur that weighs, on ...

  7. Pseudo-penis - Wikipedia

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    Male and female reproductive systems of the spotted hyena. In mammals, all intact developmentally typical males have a penis, but the clitoris in the females of the following species is sufficiently enlarged that it is usually termed a pseudo-penis: spotted hyena, [1] [2] juvenile fossa, [3] binturong, [4] lemur [5] and spider monkey.

  8. Eupleridae - Wikipedia

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    The fossa and the Malagasy civet (Fossa fossana) are each evolutionarily quite distinct from each other and from the rest of the clade. All Eupleridae are considered threatened species due to habitat destruction , as well as predation and competition from non-native species .

  9. Malagasy civet - Wikipedia

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    The Malagasy or striped civet (Fossa fossana), also known as the fanaloka (Malagasy, [fə̥ˈnaluk]) or jabady, [5] is an euplerid endemic to Madagascar. [6] It is the only species in genus Fossa . The Malagasy civet is a small mammal , about 47 centimetres (19 in) long excluding the tail (which is only about 20 centimetres (7.9 in)).