# Names, animals, and meanings (Y) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Aug 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### mary whalen *03 Aug 1998, 22:47* This is Sean Whalen (prion). Yapok. Also yapock or water opossum. Chironectes minimus. An aquatic opossum of South America. The only aquatic marsupial. Long tail. Volunteer who fights for Mint. prion ---