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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2013-09-18 07:31 am

mapinguari / mapinguary

mapinguari or mapinguary (mah-pin-GWA-ree) - n., a legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.


The South American equivalent of the bigfoot and the yeti. The origin of the name is unknown, but is sometimes stated by cryptozoologists to mean "roaring animal" or "fetid beast" in an unspecified Amazonian Indian language.

---L.

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