PZ Myers. 2003 Sep 23. Almiqui!. <http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/almiqui/>. Accessed 2008 Nov 20.

Posted on M00o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr on Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Almiqui!

almiqui

Isn’t that a spectacularly ugly beastie? It’s good news: rumors of its extinction were greatly exaggerated.



A living example of an insectivore native to Cuba - but believed for years to extinct - has been found in the island’s eastern mountains, a Cuban news agency reported. 

The discovery of the male insect-eating mammal known as an almiqui (pronounced ahl-mee-KEE) raises hopes “that it will not wind up in the catalog of the irretrievable animals disappearing from the face of the Earth,” Prensa Latina said in reporting the discovery. 
Posted by PZ Myers on 09/23 at 08:36 PM
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  1. Fantastic! That thing sure could compete with the naked mole rat --> () for the title of ugliest mammal.

    But is it really wise for the farmer to take this thing in for a pet (as it seems), if their status in the wild is so dubious?
    #: Posted by Jason Malloy  on  09/24  at  01:08 PM
  2. Nevermind, it says they let it free. I read a vague blurb about this somewhere else first. I think I was thrown off by the naming business.
    #: Posted by Jason Malloy  on  09/24  at  01:19 PM

  3. Here is the wooly-mammoth
    #: Posted by  on  09/29  at  08:50 AM
  4. He is sooooooooooooooooooo... cute!
    #: Posted by bill  on  10/09  at  12:28 PM
  5. actually, I read a caption on another article about this picture, that the speciman is stuffed
    #: Posted by  on  02/13  at  12:42 AM
  6. I love my almiqui they are sooo cool!!!!!!!!
    #: Posted by  on  03/18  at  08:01 AM