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A tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus sp.), photographed July 23th, 2008 at the Bronx zoo.
A prairie dog (Cynomys sp.), photographed at the Turtleback Zoo.
A cormorant (Phalacrocorax sp.), photographed at the Central Park Zoo.
A pygmy treeshrew (Tupaia minor), photographed at the National Zoo.
Awww... looks like a Lesser Tree Shrew (Tupaia minor) to me.
I first saw these in the Children's Zoo within the Saint Louis Zoo -- I thought they were cute and neat, and wanted one for a pet.
They've had an interesting career. Once they were primates, then they weren't, now they are. In the future they may become primatiformes much as purgatorious did.