# New Mammal Species Discovered! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286 "2005-12-06T02:09:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/1 "2005-12-06T02:09:07Z")
[Kind of a weird looking thing.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4501152.stm) > [@](#): > > In the dense central forests of Borneo, a conservation group has found what appears to be a new species of mammal. > > WWF caught two images of the animal, which is bigger than a domestic cat, dark red, and has a long muscular tail. > > Local people, the WWF says, had not seen the species before, and researchers say it looks to be new. Maybe it’s a chupacabra! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/2 "2005-12-06T02:16:01Z")
Wow, that is really cool. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/3 "2005-12-06T02:16:24Z")
DRAT! No enlarged photos available! :smack: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/4 "2005-12-06T02:21:41Z")
It’s not actually a mammal, and they have the picture backwards. It’s a pygmy brontosaurus, and that long part extending out on the right is actually its neck. What look like eyes in the foreground are just some blurred leaves in the foreground. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/5 "2005-12-06T02:27:50Z")
It’s those radioactive squirrels from the park where Burns and Smithers hid the nuclear waste in the trees. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/6 "2005-12-06T02:29:26Z")
Oh man, now I’m hungry! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/7 "2005-12-06T02:34:37Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Maybe it’s a chupacabra! You sound like a co-worker of mine, everything is a chupacabra. He was leaving work one night when he saw a little creature run past the building he came running back in and said he saw something weird and it was either a brown ferret or a chupacabra. So we all had to go look and it was a mink (in pre-coat form). He still insisted it was a chupacabra though. Every so often he emails me another picture of something he insists is a chupacabra. Anyway, it’s always fun and interesting to find new species. Did you see the picture of the [new lemur species](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4135670.stm)? It’s sooo cute! ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/8 "2005-12-06T02:40:26Z")
Ooooh ooooh! Get the hunting gear. We can be the first to kill one! ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/9 "2005-12-06T02:42:47Z")
Also, what’s up with the WWF looking for new species? “Can you smell what the Rock is cooking?” A new Lemur… or Civet. Mmmmmm. Civet. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/10 "2005-12-06T02:43:05Z")
Hang on, they don’t seem to have named it, yet… I claim this animal on behalf of **Revenant Threshold**. It shall be named the “Revthresh Lemur”. I’ll be charging $0.50 to look at those photos - make your cheques out to “Red Fur Coat Emporium, London, England”, please. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/11 "2005-12-06T02:46:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It’s not actually a mammal, and they have the picture backwards. It’s a pygmy brontosaurus, and that long part extending out on the right is actually its neck. What look like eyes in the foreground are just some blurred leaves in the foreground. > > 😃 That’s **exactly** what I thought when I first saw the pic too! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/12 "2005-12-06T02:53:08Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > That’s **exactly** what I thought when I first saw the pic too! Ditto. Once I’d figured out what I was really looking at, I was very disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/13 "2005-12-06T03:03:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What look like eyes in the foreground are just some blurred leaves in the foreground. No, no, those are eyespots on its hindquarters, meant to confuse predators. **Pygmy Tyrannosaurus** : Rarrr! I am going to eat you! **Pygmy Brontosaurus** : Oh, you think so, do you? Check out these eyespots! **Pygmy Tyrannosaurus** : Buh? **Pygmy Brontosaurus** : _Flees into the underbrush, chortling victorously_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/14 "2005-12-06T21:51:09Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > Anyway, it’s always fun and interesting to find new species. Did you see the picture of the [new lemur species](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4135670.stm)? It’s sooo cute! I don’t think that’s a lemur…maybe you oughtta lock up your goats, **Wile E**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/15 "2005-12-07T05:50:19Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > Hang on, they don’t seem to have named it, yet… > I claim this animal on behalf of **Revenant Threshold**. It shall be named the “Revthresh Lemur”. > > I’ll be charging $0.50 to look at those photos - make your cheques out to “Red Fur Coat Emporium, London, England”, please. 😃 Feh. I think it should get a completely ridiculous name - one that’ll make people say, “Why the hell did they call it _that??_” So in the honour of Ren & Stimpy, I dub the beast to be a Stinky Wizzleteats (_Stinkus Wizzleteatus_). ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/16 "2005-12-07T06:11:06Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Ooooh ooooh! Get the hunting gear. We can be the first to kill one! Oh my God! It’s coming right for us! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mammal-species-discovered/334286/17 "2005-12-07T15:10:54Z")
Let’s call it a **WolfRat** , after a gross misspelling and mispronunciation of one of the scientists. **Chronos** – at first glance I thought th same thing.