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And this week, I'm up first in our total weirdo power hour.

We got a couple of weird ones lined up for you this week.

So I hope you like them.

Bizarre.

I was going to say mine is at least very constantly flexing.

I like that.

So is mine in their own way. All way. This week I'm talking about the

proboscis monkey. Oh, scientific name is nasalus larvitous. Oh, what does that mean? You'll

never guess. I don't know about the larvitus part, but the nasalus is a reference to their

nose, which they are named for both scientifically and their common name, Proboscis.

Proboscis is the name used for any sort of nasal structure, like an elephant's trunk would be a proboscis.

Or even like the long, curly mouth part that butterflies have, That's a proboscis also.

Yeah, I guess for me it's usually the context of insects that I hear the word proboscis,

including mosquitoes.

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