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Un bicho que ya llevo bastante tiempo queriendo doodlear Thylophorops fue una zarigueya de gran tamaño que vivio en Sudamérica en el Plioceno, hace unos 3 a 2.5 millones de años. Su dentadura indica que era bastante carnivora, ciertamente más que la zarigueya norteamericana moderna; al parecer su modus operandi era registrar madrigueras en busca de animales mas pequeños. Tambien era mucho mayor; el especimen original de la especie mas grande pesaba unos 7 kilos, pero al parecer era un individuo joven, asi que pudo haber crecido más (hasta 9 kilos segun sugiere otro estudio).
Este animal captura mi imaginación porque en mi vecindario hay zarigueyas, y aunque casi nunca se las ve, sé que por la noche andan por ahí junto con los gatos. 7 kilos, incidentalmente, es lo que pesa mi gato mas grande, el Coronel Bombonel, considerado un monstruo gigante y mutante por los gatos de la calle, que salen en estampida cuando lo ven. Considerando eso, creo que si Thylophorops todavia existiera y anduviera en las calles por la noche, asustaria a todos los gatos y a mas de una persona.

A critter I've been meaning to doodle for a while Thylophorops was a large opossum that roamed South America during the Pliocene, about 3 to 2.5 million years ago. Its teeth indicate it was pretty carnivorous, certainly more than today's opossums- its MO may have been to register burrows eating their hapless owners. It was also much bigger than today's opossum; the original specimen of the bigger species weighed about 7 kg, but was apparently a young animal so it would've grown further (up to 9 kgs as suggested in a recent study).
This animal captures my imagination because we have opossums where I live, and even tho you almost never see them, at night they come out and look for food along with feral cats.
Incidentally, 7 kg is the weight of my biggest cat, Colonel Bombonel, widely considered a giant abomination by the feral cats, who stampede away whenever they see him. All things considered I think if Thylophorops was still alive and roaming the streets, it'd scare all the cats and more than one human, too

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Un bicho que ya llevo bastante tiempo queriendo doodlear Thylophorops fue una zarigueya de gran tamaño que vivio en Sudamérica en el Plioceno, hace unos 3 a 2.5 millones de años. Su dentadura indica que era bastante carnivora, ciertamente más que la zarigueya norteamericana moderna; al parecer su modus operandi era registrar madrigueras en busca de animales mas pequeños. Tambien era mucho mayor; el especimen original de la especie mas grande pesaba unos 7 kilos, pero al parecer era un individuo joven, asi que pudo haber crecido más (hasta 9 kilos segun sugiere otro estudio).
Este animal captura mi imaginación porque en mi vecindario hay zarigueyas, y aunque casi nunca se las ve, sé que por la noche andan por ahí junto con los gatos. 7 kilos, incidentalmente, es lo que pesa mi gato mas grande, el Coronel Bombonel, considerado un monstruo gigante y mutante por los gatos de la calle, que salen en estampida cuando lo ven. Considerando eso, creo que si Thylophorops todavia existiera y anduviera en las calles por la noche, asustaria a todos los gatos y a mas de una persona.

A critter I've been meaning to doodle for a while Thylophorops was a large opossum that roamed South America during the Pliocene, about 3 to 2.5 million years ago. Its teeth indicate it was pretty carnivorous, certainly more than today's opossums- its MO may have been to register burrows eating their hapless owners. It was also much bigger than today's opossum; the original specimen of the bigger species weighed about 7 kg, but was apparently a young animal so it would've grown further (up to 9 kgs as suggested in a recent study).
This animal captures my imagination because we have opossums where I live, and even tho you almost never see them, at night they come out and look for food along with feral cats.
Incidentally, 7 kg is the weight of my biggest cat, Colonel Bombonel, widely considered a giant abomination by the feral cats, who stampede away whenever they see him. All things considered I think if Thylophorops was still alive and roaming the streets, it'd scare all the cats and more than one human, too