monito del monte– tag –

In the cool, rain-soaked forests of southern Chile and Argentina lives a tiny marsupial with rounded ears, dark rings around its eyes and a long tail that helps it move through branches. It is called the monito del monte—roughly, “little...

One Family. One Genus. One Species. Imagine a branch of the mammal family tree reduced to a single living twig. Most mammal families include many species, but a few are represented today by just one genus—and that genus by one living spe...