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A Cape skink in low-level vegetation. T. capensis is a large (sometimes quite fat) skink, with three light stripes running down its back. Its skin is olive-brown to gray, and between the stripes and on its flanks are many small dark spots. The belly is greyish white. Occasionally the stripes on the back can be quite pale.
Keratolytic Winter erythema (also known as Oudtshoorn disease [1] or Oudtshoorn skin [2] [3]) is a rare autosomal dominant skin disease of unknown cause which causes redness and peeling of the skin on the palms and soles. [4] Onset, increased prominence and severity usually occurs during winter. [5] [6] It is a type of genodermatosis. [7]
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Viverra capensis was the scientific name used by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1777 who described a honey badger skin from the Cape of Good Hope. [2] Mellivorae was proposed as name for the genus by Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr in 1780, [3] while Mellivorina was proposed as a tribe name by John Edward Gray in 1865. [4]
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The Cape clawless otter (Aonyx capensis capensis) is a subspecies of African clawless otter found in sub-Saharan Africa near permanent bodies of freshwater and along the seacoast. It is the largest of the Old World otters and the third largest otter after the giant otter ( Pteronura brasiliensis ) and the sea otter ( Enhydra lutris ).
A mythical enemy-incinerating kapa (barkcloth) cape, retold as a feather skirt in one telling, occurs in Hawaiian mythology. In the tradition regarding the hero ʻAukelenuiaʻīkū, [c] the hero's grandmother Moʻoinanea who is matriarch of the divine lizards (moʻo akua, or simply moʻo) gives him her severed tail, which transforms into a cape (or kapa lehu, i.e. tapa) that turns enemies into ...