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- noun Plural form of
desman .
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Believe it or not, they included saltatorial deer-like forms, macropredatory crocodile-mimics, diminutive long-tailed forms that looked like giant desmans, ‘megaseals’ and forms sporting tapir-like trunks.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Other freshwater mammals that have been assessed and categorized as globally threatened include freshwater seals, freshwater otters, water shrews in Malaysia and Indonesia, otter shrews in Africa, desmans, Madagascar tenrecs, marsh mongooses and otter civets, the pigmy hippopotamus, and the freshwater-dependent Pere David’s deer, which has been successfully reintroduced in the wild (C20. 3.2).
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