cuscuses

From some of these instances we learn that Melanesian ghosts can sometimes take up their abode in animals, such as cuscuses, eels, and fish.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

A fruit-eating pig with large curly tusks, a dwarf buffalo, four monkey species, and cuscuses exemplify a truly unique mammal community.

Sulawesi montane rain forests 2008

The mammal fauna is depauperate, containing only thirty-eight species with both Asian and Australasian affinities (cuscuses), but includes eight ecoregional endemics (Table 1).

Halmahera rain forests 2008

A fruit-eating pig with huge tusks, a dwarf buffalo, endemic macaques, and cuscuses exemplify a truly unique mammal community.

Sulawesi lowland rain forests 2007

West of the dividing line lived tigers and monkeys, bears and orangutans, barbets and trogons; east of the line were friarbirds and cockatoos, birds of paradise and paradise kingfishers, cuscuses and other marsupials including farther east in New Guinea and tropical Australia the ineffable tree kangaroos, doing their clumsy best to fill niches left vacant by missing monkeys.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

He shot, saw, or heard reports of a half-dozen species of marsupial, including several cuscuses and a kangaroo.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

West of the dividing line lived tigers and monkeys, bears and orangutans, barbets and trogons; east of the line were friarbirds and cockatoos, birds of paradise and paradise kingfishers, cuscuses and other marsupials including farther east in New Guinea and tropical Australia the ineffable tree kangaroos, doing their clumsy best to fill niches left vacant by missing monkeys.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

He shot, saw, or heard reports of a half-dozen species of marsupial, including several cuscuses and a kangaroo.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Cuscuses (nocturnal catlike creatures) were taken to New Ireland, and by 10,000 years ago both cuscuses and wallabies appeared on Gebe.

Ancient Seafarers 1997

They die the second death and turn into animals, generally into cuscuses.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897