#cusimanse

[rosewendybros]

Cover Me With Endless Night

When: February 18, 2024 Where: TexelZoo Oosterend Texel, the Netherlands

How can you not fall in love with that face?

Species: Common, Dark or Long-Nosed Kusimanse (Koesimanse) Latin name: Crossarchus Obscurus Originates from western Africa. Current status: Least Concern

Did you know: …The Common Kusimanse is also known as the Dark or Long-Nosed Kusimanse, or Cusimanse. …They are a menver of the smaller Mongoose family, and known to be very social.

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[blazetbw-art]

Did a thhhhing for Tyler_J_McGrath on twitter of their character Phoenix the Kusimanse~ Couldn't settle on regular fire or blue, so here's both lol.

[the-faunal-frontier]

Crossarchus obscurus - Common Kusimanse

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt:

It’s often surprising how little we know about the species that humans share our planet with, and the rainforests of Central Africa are a particular biodiversity blank spot. But as the BBC reports, the first large scale camera-trap survey of the Semuliki National Park in Uganda recently cast a little light on the lowland rainforest it encompases. Among the discoveries, the traps snapped the Central East African country’s first recorded sighting of the rare lowland or western bongo, the world’s largest forest antelope.

It’s surprising that the bongo subspecies, which can weight up to 800 pounds, could go so long without a sighting in Uganda. Currently, about 30,000 of the animals, listed as near threatened on the IUCN Red List of endangered species, live in the forests of West and Central Africa. “We were amazed that such a large, striking animal could go undetected for so long, but bongos are a notoriously shy and elusive species,” Stuart Nixon of Chester Zoo’s Africa Field Program, which partnered with Uganda Wildlife Authority on the survey of the 85-square-mile park, tells the BBC.

According a press release, the bongo wasn’t the only animal caught by the traps. In total, the planted cameras took 18,000 snapshots that recorded 32 mammal species, some of which, like the bongo, had never been photographed in the area before. Forest elephants, chimpanzees, buffalo and leopards all set off the traps, as well as more unusual species including elephant shrews, the weasel-like cusimanse and African golden cat.

[artscult]

Cusimanse - high resolution image from old book.

[wapiti3]

common kusimanse (Crossarchus obscurus), also known as the long-nosed kusimanse or cusimanse on Flickr.

photo by sukkispal

[deboracpq-blog-blog]

"Aw go on, gissa belly rub!" by charliejb on Flickr.

[the-faunal-frontier]

Crossarchus alexandri - Alexander's Kusimanse