Pangolins, Carcajous and Other Monsters!

I came across this looking up 'kink' (it has both dodgy and undodgy meanings I was honestly entirely oblivious of until today) in my (electronic) dictionary. I thought this might be interesting for some of you cultural historians (especially those working on Montagnais). What white people asked the natives, and then some explorer person going and starting to call entirely different species the same exotic name! You be a kinkajou! You be a kinkajou too!
I like to think that the Montagnais were not completely serious in (some of ) their interactions with whites with regards to labelling animals, so that the whites would call this kind of animal 'carcajou' unawares that this means 'I am a silly white frog' in the Montagnais language...

kinkajou
noun
an arboreal nocturnal fruit-eating mammal with a prehensile tail and a long tongue, found in the tropical forests of Central and South America. • Potos flavus, family Procyonidae.
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French quincajou, alteration of carcajou .

carcajou
noun
another term for the North American wolverine .
ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from Canadian French, from Montagnais kwāhkwāčēw (compare with kinkajou).

wolverine
noun
1 a heavily built short-legged carnivorous mammal with a shaggy dark coat and a bushy tail, native to the tundra and forests of arctic and subarctic regions.
• Gulo luscus of North America and G. gulo of Europe, family Mustelidae.
2 ( Wolverine) Informal a native or inhabitant of Michigan.
ORIGIN late 16th cent.(earlier as wolvering): formed obscurely from wolv-, plural stem of wolf

And look at the beautiful etymologies of (the word denoting) this Australian beastie, and of the legendary pangolinus maximus...

echidna
noun
a spiny insectivorous egg-laying mammal with a long snout and claws, native to Australia and New Guinea. Also called spiny anteater . • Family Tachyglossidae, order Monotremata: two genera and species, in particular Tachyglossus aculeatus.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek ekhidna ‘viper,’ also the name of a mythical creature that gave birth to the many-headed Hydra; compare with ekhinos ‘sea urchin, hedgehog.’

pangolin
noun
an African and Asian mammal that has a body covered with horny overlapping scales, a small head with elongated snout, a long sticky tongue for catching ants and termites, and a thick, tapering tail. Also called scaly anteater . • Family Manidae and order Pholidota: genera Manis ( three species in Asia) and Phataginus (four species in Africa).
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Malay peng-guling, literally ‘roller’ (from its habit of rolling into a ball).
(photo taken from here