New discovery

Recently, there was a new mammal found. It is the Olinguito. It was found in South America. What was interesting was not that the scientists discovered the new mammal while hiking in the jungle. People had apparently caught it earlier but categorised it with another animal. Apparently, the Olinguito looked similar to another animal called the Olingo (The Olingo is also found in South America). It was when the scientists started studying the Olingo, they found that a few museums had incorrectly labelled their Olingo body parts. The Olinguito was smaller and the skull had different shaped bones.

The amusing part of the storey was that there was an Olinguito exhibited in several zoos in the US of A. The zoos were not able to get the other Olingos to mate with it. Now everyone knows why.  

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