Olinguito
Today we're talking to Bill Stanley about Kris Helgen's Olinguito! Here's Kris's paper: http://bit.ly/17jZalu Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thebrainscoop The Brain Scoop is written...
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Okay, get one- you- get right on the side, there you go. Ready? - Yup. Got it? - Yup. So, this is what, uh, Kris Helgen from the Smithsonian was doing. Kris is a, um, he's a mammologist from the Smithsonian Museum? Correct. - Okay. So he's, uh, he's head of mammals at Smithsonian, he is, uh, somebody who has been to museums all over the world, and, um, goes through the drawers, looks at the specimens, and this is exactly what happened here. He came into the carnivore collection and he wanted to review the whole olingo group. An olingo is a member of the raccoon family. So what he was expecting, when he was looking at the olingos, was skins that were relatively dark and the hair was relatively short. And he pulled out this drawer and saw someth...
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Okay, get one- you- get right on the side, there you go. Ready? - Yup. Got it? - Yup. So, this is what, uh, Kris Helgen from the Smithsonian was doing. Kris is a, um, he's a mammologist from the Smithsonian Museum? Correct. - Okay. So he's, uh, he's head of mammals at Smithsonian, he is, uh, somebody who has been to museums all over the world, and, um, goes through the drawers, looks at the specimens, and this is exactly what happened here. He came into the carnivore collection and he wanted to review the whole olingo group. An olingo is a member of the raccoon family. So what he was expecting, when he was looking at the olingos, was skins that were relatively dark and the hair was relatively short. And he pulled out this drawer and saw someth...
