Citations:oyan

English citations of oyan

• 2005, Ronald M. Nowak, Walker's Carnivores of the World, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 191:

  African Linsang, or Oyan / The single species, P. richardsoni, occurs from Sierra Leone to northern Zaire and on the island of Bioko (Fernando Poo) (Coetzee in Meester and Setzer 1977); the generic name reflects the occurrence on this island. […] The oyan is a forest animal and is nocturnal. […] Although the oyan has been reported to sleep in the abandoned nests of squirrels, reliable hunters say that the reverse is true: the squirrels sleep in abandoned nests of Poiana.

• 2010 July 29, Anjali Goswami, Anthony Friscia, Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form and Function, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 72:

  The morphological similarities between the linsangs and oyans were recognized by many authors.

• 2013 May 23, Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Thomas Butynski, Michael Hoffmann, Meredith Happold, Jan Kalina, Mammals of Africa, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 251:

  The African linsangs, or oyans, are small, slender, genet-like carnivores characterized by a small head, pointed muzzle, long body and short legs.

• 2019 January 8, Luke Hunter, Carnivores of the World: Second Edition, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 8:

  The Prionodontidae is an ancient carnivoran family originally classified among the Viverridae and once thought to be most closely related to African oyans.

• 2020 March 31, Yowann Byghan, Sacred and Mythological Animals: A Worldwide Taxonomy, McFarland, →ISBN, page 60:

  The Viverrids include the civet, the genet, the binturong, the linsang and the oyan, most or all of which are relatively unfamiliar in the West. These animals, including the mongoose, all look more like weasels or stoats (mustelids) than cats. They have long faces and bodies, short rounded ears […]

• 2022 July 25, Emmanuel Do Linh San, Jun J. Sato, Jerrold L. Belant, Michael J. Somers, Small Carnivores: Evolution, Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 302:

  All pairs of small carnivores – with exception of African palm civet, Nandinia binotata, and Central African oyan, Poiana richardsonii – exhibited spatial and/or temporal resource partitioning.