Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/01/rainforest-mammal-spotted-3000-miles-away-in-washington-state.html
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Posted by Allan Rose Hill
Not sure if those images are cute or terrifying. In any event, I can imagine my wife smuggling one home
Definitely NOT to be confused with a honey badger.
Y’all can buy the official word on that being a “kinkajou” but I know a chupacabra when I see one.
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Washington does have rainforests. Just not tropical ones. Maybe this critter just took a wrong turn at Albuquerque?
The’ts the Arctic Llinaarboreal Kinkajoo there, ‘es jus pinin’ for the Fijords.
Well, that’s 99 rainforest power poles not accomodated, and one zoo adoption. [Google maps: appears to pan over WA until a rainforest is located, and the rainforest is seen, on zooming in, to be made of 99 power poles made out of native rainforest.]
I just visited the Hoh Rain Forest last month! Definitely a life highlight. A couple of rangers in Washington told me it’s on their bucket lists. There’s a one-hour line to get in as the parking lots are limited.
Between the park boundary and the Pacific Ocean, 48 km (30 mi) of river, much of the forest has been logge…
Time to rematriate this beautiful land
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