Word: coatimundi
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...preserves. The Army first introduced camels to the area in 1856, and starting in the 1940s the locals began importing other exotic animals--ibex and zebras, nilgai antelope from Pakistan and barasingh deer from India. Veterinarians report a land-office business treating exotic pets. "I had to neuter a coatimundi once, and I didn't even know what species it was," says veterinarian Cuatro Patterson. (It's similar to a raccoon...
Things are winding to a close. Out of the bottom of the barrel comes a coatimundi, looking like a fox that has attended the Harvard Business School. Guinea pigs: Hale starts the bidding at 25? and, working the crowd expertly, talks the price up to $1.50 a head. Sold to Randy Horstman, 12, of Metropolis, Ill., who has bought heavily in gerbils some minutes before. Now someone stretches up and says something to Hale, high in his red-painted auctioneer's pulpit, and Hale looks unsure whether to giggle or break down crying, and he clicks on the microphone...
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