Notes ⁴

Introduced from the eastern US, apocryphally for a failed fur farm enterprise. White face (very pale in a flashlight beam) with a pink nose and a naked pink/grey tail. Nocturnal, disliked by dogs, and dumber than a sack of hammers.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Jessie Hirsch, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/31329193@N00/2483691463
2. (c) 1999 California Academy of Sciences, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=1167&one=T
3. (c) cyric, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by cyric
4. (c) sea-kangaroo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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