English

olinguito

Noun

olinguito ‎(plural olinguitos)

1. Bassaricyon neblina, a raccoon-like procyonid native to the Andean forests of Colombia and Ecuador.
   • 2013, August 15, "Smithsonian scientists discover new carnivore: the olinguito", Smithsonian Science

     “The discovery of the olinguito shows us that the world is not yet completely explored, its most basic secrets not yet revealed.”

   • 2013, Christine Dell'Amore, "New Carnivore Revealed: Photos of the Olinguito and its Kin", National Geographic:

     A fuzzy fog-dweller with a face like a teddy bear, the olinguito (pictured) is the first carnivore discovered in the Western Hemisphere in more than three decades, a new study says.

   • 2014, August 19, Jeffrey Brown, "'Crowd-sourced' Science Sheds New Light on New Mammal Olinguito", PBS Newshour

     In the year since the announcement, the olinguito has gone from literal unknown to being surprisingly well-documented through photos and videos shot by amateur naturalists, bird watchers, and others, a kind of crowd-sourced science.

   • 2014 September 1, Andrew Theitic, The Witches' Almanac, number 34, Spring 2015-Spring 2016:

     First, a brand new species of mammal, considered the holy grail of the discipline, was found hiding in plain sight: the olinguito, smallest member of the raccoon family, has been around for decades, but was mistaken for its more substantial cousin, the olingo.

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References

• Kristofer M. Helgen, C. Miguel Pinto, Roland Kays, Lauren E. Helgen, Mirian T. N. Tsuchiya, Aleta Quinn, Don E. Wilson, Jesus E. Maldonado, Taxonomic revision of the olingos (Bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the Olinguito, PenSoft Publishers Ltd, Aug 15, 2013

Spanish

Etymology

From olingo +‎ -ito.

Noun

olinguito m ‎(plural olinguitos)

1. olinguito