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It's a Tamarin monkey. I stole this picture from Wikipedia.

This article on animal cannibalism and evolution has it all: Cane toads. Eating offspring and mates. Penises breaking off inside vaginas. Faking death in a sexual context. Basically, the ingredients of a good weekend. But that’s not all: mustached tamarians. They’re monkeys that have handlebar mustaches.

And that’s where it gets even more weird.
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Various flora in the Sonoran Desert, taken at Saguaro National Park in Arizona.

Cactus at sunset in Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona.

Prickly pear cactus during sunset at Sagauro National Park in Tucson, Arizona.

Interior of a dead saguaro cactus, or maybe it was a prickly pear cactus—I can’t remember. Taken in Sagauro National Park in Tucson, Arizona.

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