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Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Mar 2, 2010
Rattus rattus is, I believe, a specific species, and I believe that species to be the common brown rat.
The coffee bean cat is the civet (I already knew that, even if it is in the entry... I assume it's in the entry!) although lots of animals are 'used' nowadays.
X X
It's not a panda is it?
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Mar 2, 2010
I've got a few credits yet to spend so how about the Aye Aye (Abyssus Nauta)?
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pedro Posted Mar 2, 2010
The OP says 'was known', so maybe it's not known as that now?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Mar 2, 2010
Next lot of scores...
Post 12 Taff, it is medium sized, about 1 metre and weighing around 100Kg.
Post 13 RodtheBrit Madagascar, no 
. It is not a Lemur either.
Post 16 toybox. Yes, of course there are a few left!!
Post 17. Puxxled. What is a xenarthan???
Post 18 Reddyfreddy. Not gorilla. It has been established already that it is not an ape.See Post 8
Post 19. See the above, pedro!!
Post 20 It is not a rodent. I refer you to post8
Post 21 No Robyn, not a panda
Post 22 pebbledrook, no
post 23 pedro. Sorry, typo error there. It is still known by that name. Small cluelet here. There is only one know to be in a zoo, and that is in St Louis.
GT
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hygienicdispenser Posted Mar 2, 2010
I was so sure that gorilla was right, I didn't bother reading any further. Missed the klaxon for ape. 1 metre, 100kg, jungle dwelling mammal. Tapir. Capybara. Um. Really fat Guinea Pig.
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hygienicdispenser Posted Mar 2, 2010
Again Missed the klaxon for rodent, so not capybara. I'll stick with tapir. Or something porcine. Or ungulate.
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pedro Posted Mar 2, 2010
A xenarthran (it's Greek for 'foreign joint, cos they have 8 vertebrae in their neck, instead of 7 like other mammals) is an anteater I think, and maybe some other kinda mammals.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Mar 2, 2010
Something porcine hd? +1
Expand on that idea!!!
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hygienicdispenser Posted Mar 2, 2010
>Something porcine hd? +1
Expand on that idea!!!<
A pig.
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pedro Posted Mar 2, 2010
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I metre tall or long?
And it's a herbivore from the jungle?
Okapi?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Mar 2, 2010
Post 27 pedro. Very interesting. Have +3 DGI for sharing that gem!!!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Mar 2, 2010
Yes, it is a jungle herbivore
Not okapi though!!
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hygienicdispenser Posted Mar 3, 2010
I can't think of anything porcine that might be the Linnaean name. Boar. Swine. Nope.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Mar 3, 2010
+1 hd. My baby is a member of the pig family.
It is rare, and on the IUCN Red List.
May help to find where it lives.
(So I can get to give a few more klaxons)!!!
GT
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Mar 3, 2010
Too broad an area that. Try cutting down to one country. One that has a fair share of wild animals!!!
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Mar 3, 2010
Arica at a guess of the continent, jungle...
Hmm I guess the question then is:
Rain Forest
or
Jungle
(what if any is the difference)
If its Porcine, is the Latin name Porcinus Porcinus?
(waits for the )
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hygienicdispenser Posted Mar 3, 2010
A type of pig. So good they named it thrice.
New pork, new pork, new pork.
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Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Mar 3, 2010
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Mar 3, 2010
Rain forest??
Yes Argon0, but where??
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QI - "So Good They Named it Thrice"
- 21: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Mar 2, 2010)
- 22: pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? (Mar 2, 2010)
- 23: pedro (Mar 2, 2010)
- 24: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Mar 2, 2010)
- 25: hygienicdispenser (Mar 2, 2010)
- 26: hygienicdispenser (Mar 2, 2010)
- 27: pedro (Mar 2, 2010)
- 28: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Mar 2, 2010)
- 29: hygienicdispenser (Mar 2, 2010)
- 30: pedro (Mar 2, 2010)
- 31: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Mar 2, 2010)
- 32: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Mar 2, 2010)
- 33: hygienicdispenser (Mar 3, 2010)
- 34: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Mar 3, 2010)
- 35: pedro (Mar 3, 2010)
- 36: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Mar 3, 2010)
- 37: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Mar 3, 2010)
- 38: hygienicdispenser (Mar 3, 2010)
- 39: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Mar 3, 2010)
- 40: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Mar 3, 2010)
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