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The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings.

A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip.

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The Book Of Barely Imagined Beings

A 21st-Century Bestiary

by Caspar Henderson