Marsupilami
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Marsupilami is a fictional animal created by André Franquin in 1952. He debuted as the pet of the popular French comic-book characters Spirou et Fantasio. His name is a portmanteau of the words marsupial and ami, the French word for friend.
He is a black-spotted yellow monkey-like creature, also called a marsupilami, of which some specimens are known to have a form of melanism, causing them to resemble black panthers. The species originates from the tropical forests of Palombia. Though resembling monkeys, marsupilamis have many unique traits: they're egg-laying mammals, similar to monotremes, have bellybuttons, are able to breath underwater, and each adult has a 7-metre-long tail. This tail can be curled on itself into a ball, which the marsupilami uses to "punch" enemies or predators or it can be coiled in a spring, which the creature uses to make 30-metre-high jumps. The marsupilami is also noted for its strength, as the creature is easily capable of pulverising rocks with a good strike of its tail. Marsupilamis are omnivorous and build clam-shaped nests made of vines and branches, and filled with feathers plucked from local birds and parrots.
He first appeared on television in Disney's Raw Toonage, and was then spun off into his own eponymous show on the CBS network. Marsupilami's supporting characters included Maurice the Gorilla, Stuie the Elephant, Eduardo the Jaguar, Norman the Poacher, and other characters. The original Marsupilami stories by Franquin never encountered a monkey or elephant. A later TV series followed more closely the character in the original comic.