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More mammals are hiding their secret glow
Stuffed bare-nosed wombats that fluoresce under a black light at the museum in Perth, Australia. First it was platypuses. Now we may be dealing with glowing Tasmanian devils, echidnas and wombats. Western Australia Museum via The New York Times.
by Cara Giaimo
.- Were platypuses just the beginning?
In October, researchers reported that the already perplexing animals fluoresce a psychedelic blue-green color under black light. The species joined a short list of mammals known to do this, including opossums and flying squirrels.
Since the study came out, others have begun their own investigations, mostly in Australian mammals. Although results are preliminary, the findings suggest we may have to book a larger venue for the mammal rave.
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Dr Kenny Travouillon turned off the lights and headed straight for the shelf holding the stuffed platypus, armed with an ultraviolet torch to test something out. Would the monotreme glow?
“All the platypuses were glowing,” says Travouillon, the mammals curator at the Western Australian Museum in Perth. “We went through with other mammals and we found they were glowing too.”
The museum’s stuffed mammal collection has about 65,000 specimens of roughly 800 different species, including all of Australia’s many marvellous and occasionally oddball animals.
Bare-nosed Wombats under ultraviolet light. Photograph: Western Australian Museum
Under the UV light, creatures including bilbies, bandicoots, wombats, flying foxes, microbats, Tasmanian devils and echidnas all took on a distinct disco-like glow. Kangaroos, though, were “rather disappointing”.
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