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Published: 2017-05-03 03:27:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 8688; Favourites: 182; Downloads: 25
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Chapalmalania fue un mapache gigante que habitó Sudamerica durante el Plioceno, hasta que fue desplazado por la llegada de los osos norteamericanos. Era del tamaño aproximado de un oso negro (de hecho sus fosiles fueron confundidos con los de un oso originalmente) y omnivoro, con tendencia al carnivorismo; se han encontrado sus marcas de dientes incluso en restos de gliptodontes.Chapalmalania was a giant raccoon that lived in South America during the Pliocene, until displaced by the arrival of bears from North America. It was the size of today's American black bear (its fossils were even mistaken for a bear's originally) and seems to have been omnivorous with a tendency to carnivory; its bite marks have been found even on glyptodont remains.
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Imagine one of these guys raiding your garbage.
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Makes me wonder who was really the top dog between these guys and the terror birds.
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Well racoons and bears seem to have some genetic similarities so this doesn't surprise me
But a bear-sized raccoon is an altogether different breed of monstocity
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y eso que no lo vistes como yo, de noche con un faro halógeno en la mano porque estábamos revisando una vaca que había tenido un parto distócico y se la había muerto el becerro adentro y escuchamos un ruido extraño, le apunte con la luz y allí estaba en una pose similar y de hecho su postura era similar a tu dibujo, en ese momento juro que me pareció del tamaño de un tigre, luego al compáralo con unos de los postes me di cuenta que era como del tamaño de un perro mediano algo así como un bassett hound
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De haber sido un Chapy te habría parecido del tamaño de un elefante XD
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si, ja,ja,ja,ja,ja,... la oscuridad, la sorpresa y el susto hace a las leguas muy largas
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Btw love following your work. Always learning about new prehistoric gems!
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Thanks, glad you find it interesting
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me gusta y mucho este dibujo, además me recuerda a un mapache loco que una vez puede ver en una finca cerca de la presa la Honda, era muy grande, le calcule unos 14 kgs y no estaba muy feliz de vernos
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D: pero no vives en Venezuela? Dices un mapache cangrejero?
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si vivo en Venezuela , y si era un Procyon cancrivorus
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Pensé que eran más pequeños D:
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This is something I would never want to meet in my garage while taking the trash out on a Wednesday night
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omg I love Chapalmalania-I wished more people talked about it (it's a freaking bear-sized raccoon!!!)
though I bet my step-dad would sh$t bricks seeing this-he has a diehard hatred for raccoons (at a summer camp he works for sometimes, a big one climbed out of a trash can he was walking towards and he ran to the other side of the camp screaming bloody murder)
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shit, so many small critters today had fucking HUGE ancestors.
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That's one P.O. raccoon. The fact that it's as big as a black bear makes it even more intimidating.
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This is what I hope the KallyToonsStudios liked this, I think.
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This is pretty darn similar to a future evolution idea I had about raccoons becoming grizzly bear-like criltters.
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As if Raccoons weren't already bad enough, I hate to see what a rabid one was like
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Imagine the force that'd be reckon with a rabid Chapalmalania, as if normal rabid raccoons weren't bad enough.
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Believe me, non-rabid raccoons are already a handful when mad
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Yep, so I heard, they can be nasty even when non-rabid but a rabid one is just an nightmare.
Anyways nice work as usual.
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Weird, I always read that this guy was mostly herbivorous.
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Yeah but apparently that was wrong
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Sorry for the late reply, but I personally think this guy was like a panda: mostly herbivorous, but will occasionally eat meat.
Also, there were multiple species. How do we know different species didn't have different dietary habits, like modern Ursus bears?
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The frequency of Chapalmalania bite marks found on fossils would suggest it was more carnivorous than the panda.
I guess you can tell that from study of the teeth- like they used to conclude that the cave bear was mostly vegetarian.
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How do we know it didn't scavenge those kills?
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It most likely did. That doesn´t make it any less carnivorous.
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