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Word: solenodons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: One Month for Ducking | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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