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([personal profile] redbird Feb. 10th, 2006 09:32 pm)
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[livejournal.com profile] jonsinger just sent me email containing a picture of a tree kangaroo, an explanation of why he was sending me a picture of a tree kangaroo, and the suggestion to sprinkle a bit of cinnamon on bacon before cooking it.
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From: [identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com


Sorry, it turns out to be merely a previously-believed-extinct Papuan tree kangaroo, of which one Papuan wrote

There was once a tree-kangaroo at Sweipini that had a face just like you white men. We called it Weimanke. My father caught one when I was a little boy, but it is long gone now. The earthquake [of 1934] killed them all ...


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4688000.stm

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0207_020607_lost_world.html
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