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Last one! That was sure a looooong 24 hours, wasn’t it? My tía Laura let me pick for her, and I selected this black-and-white colobus monkey species, the guereza. It lives in Africa, and the white feathery fur you see off its shoulder here is called its mantle. It also has a very long tail, not shown here. This guy reminds me of a certain famous painting, and painter. Check it out:
Consecutive days of mammals: 12
Previous record: 11
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My dad asked me to draw him a coatimundi. It turns out that the coatimundi, once thought to be a separate species, is actually a male coati. Coatimundi, in a Central American Indian language I can’t pin down for certain, means “lone coati” or “solitary coati,” and adult male coatis are a lonesome bunch, roaming about alone while the females form groups.
There are two species of coati. This one lives in Central America up to Arizona and New Mexico. In parts of its range, it’s called the pizote. One of the coolest things about coatis is that they can move the tips of their noses around. Do an image search and you’ll see what I mean.
One mammal left in Mammalthon 2! If you ordered a drawing: We sent out about half of them today. If you are related to me and live in town, I will give you yours in person. Otherwise, start checking your mail later this week or early next week!
Consecutive days of mammals: 11
Previous record: 11
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Mammals, there are only two more drawings after this one and then the “24-hour” mammalthon comes to a close! Ted requested a fox squirrel. (He actually requested a gray squirrel, but since I’d already drawn one, he let me draw a fox squirrel instead.) When Ted and his brother and sister were kids, they had either gray squirrels or fox squirrels in their backyard. They’d feed them and let the squirrels run up and down their arms and onto their heads.
Consecutive days of mammals: 10
Previous record: 11
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Quolls are one of those wonderful carnivorous marsupials, like my beloved (and extinct) (probably) thylacine. The spotted-tailed quoll used to be called a tiger cat, but that name was so off the mark that it has declined in use. Spotted-tailed quolls live in Australia, naturally, and eat small animals of many kinds. They’ve suffered from habitat loss, trapping, poisoning, and disease, and they are now quite rare on mainland Australia, although they’re doing all right in Tasmania.
This quoll is for my mother (happy Mother’s Day!), who let me pick for her. I actually drew him twice. The first drawing, below, was okay, but it wasn’t too exciting, I didn’t think. So I did a different pose and composition.
Consecutive days of mammals: 9
Previous record: 11
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My dad requested, among other mammals (thanks, Dad!), a mule deer. Big old mule ears! She looks sleep-deprived. But they kind of always do to me.
Consecutive days of mammals: 8
Previous record: 11
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My uncle Jay, a great uncle in more than one way, requested a baby kit fox. This was at first confusing to research because baby foxes are sometimes called kits no matter the particular species (when they’re not being called pups or cubs). But here in fact is a kit fox cub. They live in the Chihuahuan desert (I used to live in it too!) and elsewhere in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Animal Diversity Web says they get as far north as the deserts of Oregon. The kit fox’s Spanish name is zorra del desierto.
You know those signs at work sites that say something like “consecutive days without an accident: 164″ or whatever? I’m going to try something similar to keep track of how long I manage to post a daily mammal without missing one. We will see how depressing this proves when, say, I’m sick or out of town or something. It’s certainly depressing that I’ve only ever gone 11 days before! (Of course, I’ve often posted after midnight, intending it to be for the previous day, and it would count for the next day.)
Consecutive days of mammals: 7
Previous record: 11
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click image to enlargeHere is a cheetah for my tía Yansci, who can go nearly as fast as one on her four-wheeler. We’ve lost about 90 percent of our cheetahs over the last century. And did you know that lions and hyenas prey on cheetah cubs?
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