There are no strange mammals in this world, born male and female, let alone 8 species, spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta), moles (moles, Talpa), spider monkeys (Ateles), howler monkeys (Allouatta), capuchin monkeys (Cebus), fluffy monkeys (Lagothrix) and today's introduction, the Fassas, Cryptoprocat ferox）。
A chocolate-colored Falkland long-tailed tanuki cat with a pair of round Mickey Mouse ears
As the name suggests, the home of the Long-tailed Tanuki cat on the Falklands, just next to Africa, is on the island of Madagascar, with a cat-like face, a pure chocolate brown body, a golden ratio of nine heads, a slender body shape and a long tail (70-80 cm in length, 70-90 cm in tail length), friends who like cats will definitely want to look twice, and are also the largest carnivorous mammals on madagascar (weighing 5-7 kg). The long-tailed cat of the Falklands, which comes out at night, is particularly fond of hunting lemurs (Lemur, the crazy chief in the movie Madagascar, King Julian).
In 2002, Clare Hawkins, a zoologist at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, read two old academic articles (published in 1902 and 1911, older than the People's Republic of China), and found that there were records of two female Female Long-tailed Tanuki cats, with masculine conditions, and couldn't help but want to know how the Falkland Long-tailed Tanuki cat did it, and why did it? So we set off for the island of Madagascar to conduct a scientific investigation!
During the dry season of 1994-1996 (May-October), Clare Hawkins caught a total of 43 Isle of Man long-tailed tanuki cats, one by one for closer inspection. But Miss Tired found that in fact, only the young girl Madao long-tailed tanuki cat, one looks relatively large, has cartilage branches, and also has a prickly clitoris, and the coat color around the sexual organ is still relatively dark. But these sexual characteristics disappear with age, and most adult female Female Horse Island Long-tailed Tanuki cats do not have those things that look like boys. This is an interesting discovery, the dildo on the girl spotted hyena mentioned earlier, will not disappear for a lifetime.
Clare Hawkins began to wonder if this could be caused by changes in sexual hormone concentrations as the larvae matured sexually. So I began to determine whether the concentration of male pigment in the bodies of these female Female Isle long-tailed tanuki cats will change after they grow up; observe their behavior, whether they are very strong in the stage of Tintin.
As a result, none....
At this point, Clare Hawkins was really tired, so what the hell was going on??? Well, that can only give a few explanations, so that future generations can slowly find answers (just let the endless wheel of the times run over me). The first hypothesis she proposed, that the girl Falkland long-tailed tanuki cat long-tailed tanuki cat long dingding, in order to avoid sexual harassment by the strange uncle before sexual maturity, in fact, this trick is not only used by the Falkland long-tailed tanuki cat, some female insects (swallowtail butterfly Papilio dardanus, bean lady Ischnura ramburi) will also play this trick.
Another hypothesis is to avoid other fierce women, because the adult female Falkland long-tailed tanuki cat is stronger than the male, if a lady steps into the territory, not to be flattened to the tail to escape and vow not to give up, but if it is a beautiful teenager by mistake, hehe, then look at the small fresh meat, raise eyes is also good....
Still, Samuel Merson, a scholar at the London Zoological Society in the United Kingdom, published a sad report in 2019. He said that the people on the island of Madagascar do not like the long-tailed tanuki cat of the Falklands. On the one hand, there are cultural factors, the locals do not like dogs, and even do not like the Long-tailed Tanuki Cat of The Falklands, which looks a bit like a dog. The second is a misunderstanding, the locals think that the Falkland long-tailed tanuki often go to steal their chickens and ducks, in fact, Samuel Merson has done a survey, only less than 1% of the poultry was killed by the Falkland long-tailed tanuki cat (very wronged ah... Basically, the local chicken coop is not well covered, and good repair is the biggest cause of loss. However, the Long-tailed Tanuki Cat of The Falkland Island was hunted in retaliation for this, and was really shot while lying down.
Such magical animals, let's still protect them well!