The Tallahassee Museum has officially welcomed its latest guest animals to its dedicated wildlife exhibit. Their formal name is \u201cBinturongs,\u201d although Museum Animal Curator Suzie Buzzo said they are often referred to as something else.<\/p>\n
\u201cBinturongs are from Southeast Asia and we have a male and a female,\u201d Buzzo explained. \u201cThey\u2019re known as \u2018bearcats\u2019 because of the way they look. But they\u2019re neither bear nor cat. They\u2019re actually from the family \u2018viverrid\u2019 but they have a long tail that looks like a cat and they kind of saunter around like a bear. They actually have a prehensile tail. They\u2019re the largest mammal that has a prehensile tail.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n
She added there\u2019s another characteristic that sets these unique critters apart.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s actually a chemical compound in their urine and they use it for scent marking and it\u2019s the same chemical compound that\u2019s in freshly buttered popcorn, so that\u2019s what they say they smell like.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Binturongs, a male and a female, will be enjoying the museum\u2019s hospitality through the end of spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tallahassee Museum has officially welcomed its latest guest animals to its dedicated wildlife exhibit. Their formal name…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-91782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}