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Nashville Zoo welcomes rare fanaloka birth
UPI ^ | MARCH 20, 2024 / 3:03 PM | By Ben Hooper

Posted on 03/20/2024 12:49:22 PM PDT by Red Badger

VIDEO AT LINK...................

March 20 (UPI) -- The Nashville Zoo announced the birth of a rare spotted fanaloka, a Mdagascar-native species also known as the Malagasy civet.

The zoo, which is the only facility in the United States to keep fanalokas, said the male pup was born March 10 and does not yet have a name.

The zoo previously welcomed the birth of a female fanaloka, named Pepite, about two years ago. She was the first of her species to be born at the zoo and among the first to be born in the country.

The new arrival is being hand-reared by zookeepers and can be seen by the public in the facility's veterinary center.


TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: civet; covet; madagascar; malagasycivet
I WANT ONE!.......................
1 posted on 03/20/2024 12:49:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Do they make good coffee?


2 posted on 03/20/2024 12:52:22 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Adder

Wrong country.....................🀒


3 posted on 03/20/2024 12:52:43 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malagasy_civet

They’re tiny.


4 posted on 03/20/2024 1:03:46 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Red Badger

How much tax payer money spent on this foreign critter that could have been spent on our border infestation?


5 posted on 03/20/2024 1:23:08 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: Red Badger
Stock photo of Malagassy / Fanaloka civet (Fossa fossana) Ranomafana National Park…. Available for licencing on www.naturepl.com
6 posted on 03/20/2024 1:23:41 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Reno89519

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Zoo_at_Grassmere


7 posted on 03/20/2024 1:26:33 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I think I do too. Do they stink? Musky smell?


8 posted on 03/20/2024 2:18:17 PM PDT by waterhill (Take your ivermectin, kill zee bugs)
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To: Phinneous
Doesn't it make you just want one?

The zoo, which is the only facility in the United States to keep fanalokas, said the male pup was born March 10 and does not yet have a name.

"Nashville is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County."

>>>

"Nashville has a vibrant music and entertainment scene spanning a variety of genres. With a long history in the music scene it is no surprise that city was nicknamed 'Music City.' "

(Wiki)

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March 10 -- it's already a key start date in the history of.. Davidson Country.

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9 posted on 03/20/2024 2:28:47 PM PDT by Ezekiel (πŸ†˜οΈ "Come fly with US". πŸ”΄ Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Reno89519

A foundation pays the bills. A friend of mine was on the board.

Nice little zoo.


10 posted on 03/20/2024 2:32:12 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Phinneous
I should have added the detail that at the article source, the subject header is "ODD NEWS".

Isn't that... Really Odd?

The new arrival is being hand-reared by zookeepers and can be seen by the public in the facility's veterinary center.

I wonder what they'll name the scrappy lil tyke. Could be interesting.

11 posted on 03/20/2024 3:24:37 PM PDT by Ezekiel (πŸ†˜οΈ "Come fly with US". πŸ”΄ Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Red Badger

Tastes kinda like spotted owl.


12 posted on 03/20/2024 4:28:53 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Red Badger; GailA; wardaddy
It's an amazing zoo surviving in a high crime area totally inundated by illegal aliens (the cops convinced me to move before I got myself killed fighting them).

It missed out on one other unique birth: a primate actually birthed through an anal canal who eventually became a U.S. Representative out of Memphis.

Steve

13 posted on 03/20/2024 7:26:21 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Justice for the gulaged J-6ers. Rope for their persecutors.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

LOL. HE IS A TOTAL IDIOT. I VOTED FOR BERGMAN when I lived there, but got out 16 yrs ago. It’s worse now.


14 posted on 03/22/2024 5:20:42 AM PDT by GailA (Land Grabs, Poisoned Food, KILL the COWS, Bidenomics=BIDEN DEPRESSION.)
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