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A South American coati. In July 2008, a 17-year-old student added an invented nickname to the Wikipedia article Coati as a private joke, calling them "Brazilian aardvarks". The false information lasted for six years and was propagated by hundreds of websites, several newspapers, and even a few books published by university presses.