KHUNG, Shnongrim (Krem)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Little, if anything, has been noticed in connection with a cave with the help of which sportsmen can train their skill of negotiating a relatively large open shaft 10 m deep where a rift 20 m deep leads off south corner (Mark W. Brown 2001.02.08, 13h56). ETYMOLOGY: The Khasi -ka khung- (feminine) or -u khung- (male), which is generally said to resemble a small kind of a bear (Larsing Sukhlain 2000.02, personal communication), but rather looks like a much aged cross-bread between a badger and cat with a fully prehensile tail, but is a species of the strange group of bear cats and better known as a binturong (Carnivora: Feloidea: Viverridae: Paradoxurinae: Arctictis binturong Raffles 1821), which spends most of his quiet life climbing around trees and eats mostly fruits but also carrion and fish and raises two or three youngs twice a year. You can look with your own eyes at a stuffed one exhibited in the Lady Hydari Park at Shillong (H. Jantschke 2002.04.10 personal communication). SITUTION: In an unspecified setting at an unidentified location for which the GPS reading (unspecified precision error) N25°19'12.1”: E092°30'34.8” (WGS84, Brown, Mark W 08.02.2001) has been recorded.