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Related: About this forummore monkeys and....see if you can guess what the terrestrial mammal is.....







...and here is the mystery mammal
first person to guess correctly gets a free beer...but you gotta meet me at the restaurant in the marina in Golfito, Costa Rica to claim your beer.


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more monkeys and....see if you can guess what the terrestrial mammal is..... (Original Post)
Gato Moteado
Jan 2023
OP
Haha. People will say it was rigged!!! We would need an investigation by DOJ.
LakeArenal
Jan 2023
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Ocelot II
(127,892 posts)1. Capybara?
MLAA
(19,570 posts)3. That was my guess, but I think they are larger than this little guy.
Ocelot II
(127,892 posts)5. I thought it could be a baby.
It's something in that family, though.
Gato Moteado
(10,056 posts)6. good guess, but.......
no.
capybaras are in south america.
MLAA
(19,570 posts)2. Adorable
I wont ruin it for others to answer I had to google😉
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)4. I won't say as Mr Lake and I were just talking about one this am.
Gato Moteado
(10,056 posts)8. WTF???? you're passing up a free pilsen???????
dang.
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)10. Haha. People will say it was rigged!!! We would need an investigation by DOJ.
Walleye
(42,913 posts)7. Nutria?
Gato Moteado
(10,056 posts)9. another good guess....
...but no.
Response to Gato Moteado (Original post)
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Ocelot II
(127,892 posts)12. Agouti?
Gato Moteado
(10,056 posts)13. well, it's only fitting that someone named ocelot would get it right!
see you at the marina, where i took this very photo!

Ocelot II
(127,892 posts)14. Thanks for the beer! You have more interesting rodents than we do.
We have squirrels, and no actual ocelots. We do have monkeys, but they're mostly in Congress.
usonian
(21,797 posts)15. Found: howler monkeys.

Apologies to monkeys.
Skittles
(168,221 posts)16. great pics
that last dude, is he of the muskrat variety?
Gato Moteado
(10,056 posts)19. It's a rodent, yes....
....not really aquatic though.....it's called an agouti
Callalily
(15,265 posts)17. Tapir?
Whatthe_Firetruck
(610 posts)18. Tapirs...
... Are like far midget deer. They're a hoofed mammal. This one is more rodentia type.
Gato Moteado
(10,056 posts)20. it's a rodent called an agouti...
...tapirs are large animals....i've seen several here....this one walked right by me on the beach at the entrance to sirena on the osa peninsula:
