Olinguito and Truman… Separated at Birth
I think we have found Truman’s carnivorous twin. People claim that the olinguito, the new species revealed by the Smithsonian today, looks like a teddy bear. But I say that they look like TRUMAN HARPER FORD!
Check out the picture in that link above (sorry, it’s an AP image, so I can’t embed it) and then look at my sweet Truman Harper below.
Okay, so Truman may be a touch smaller and have a different nose. But other than the fact that Truman lives in my living room and the olinguito lives in the cloud forests of Ecuador? TWINS!
I bet if we could get an olinguito as a pet, they would be best friends. And we’d make a Disney movie about them, a feel-good romp through South America. Just a olinguito and his nearly identical cavy friend, traversing the cloud forest, singing songs about being almost-twins. Sign up Randy Newman. Get Pixar on the phone. Oh yes, this is ON.
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Love it!
I’m thinking if the olinguito is carnivorous…maybe you don’t want to get him together with Truman? Because Truman could become lunch…
I was thinking the same thing as a. Truman looks far too tasty to hang out with an olinguito!
I must say I stumbled on your blog and had never heard of an olinguito! Love your posts.
Soo cute! I’m very proud that one of the researchers works for my employer NC State 🙂
I’ve just spent all day talking about South America for reasons I won’t go into (preschoolers) and I didn’t know this. I wish I had known this. Luckily, tomorrow is another day, which will probably also be full of talk about South America. I wonder if anacondas would like eating these guys? (I’d better google that – it will come up.)