Word: solenodons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest tropical animal rarity in the Western Hemisphere is the solenodon, a little insectivorous beast resembling the opossum, smaller but with a similar ratty tail and a limber prehensile snout. Zoologists know it as the family Solenodontidae, which has but a single genus: solenodon. Classified as an extremely primitive form of animal, its skeletal structure is prehistoric. It dwells in rocky, mountain burrows on the islands of Haiti and Cuba only. A victory for any U. S. zoologist is the capture, transportation and sustenance of a solenodon over any length of time. Since October 1935, when Washington's last...
...country he found evidence that it is diet, not climate, which makes the venom of some kinds of snakes more poisonous than the venom of the same kind of snakes in another locality. Stopping over at Havana he learned from one of his young animal gatherers that a few solenodons (molelike animals the size of small opossums) still exist along Cuba's southern shore. Mammalogists have feared the solenodon extinct...
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