On the day in late December that St. Louis crossed the threshold to its 200th homicide, a horrific slaying still managed to horrify even the most jaded observers. Three young women were gunned down in a car in the Fairgrounds neighborhood around 3 a.m., apparently after an intruder broke into their home.
Mort is a character in the Madagascar series. Mort has light brown and beige fur, big yellow eyes, a round head, a little black nose, long whiskers, mouse-like ears, buck teeth, and a long, squirrel-like, bushy tail. Mort usually serves as a foil for King Julien.
Until recently, scientists had mistaken the puma-like fossa for a primitive kind of cat. Size relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man: A relative of the mongoose, the fossa is unique to the forests of Madagascar, an African island in the Indian Ocean.Growing up to 6 feet (1.8 meters) long from nose to tail tip, and weighing up to 26 pounds (12 kilograms), the fossa is a slender-bodied catlike creature with little resemblance to its mongoose cousins.adagascar is home to an enormous variety of plant and animal life, and a number of species are unique to the islandâincluding over 30 species of lemur, the fossaâs prey of choice.