some kind of lemur?
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some kind of lemur?
it is indeed a kind of lemur: a Red-tailed Sportive Lemur. i think he kind of looks like a koala with a bat's head :)
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/200...at_468x372.jpg
This animal has just been discovered (along with dozens of new plants, birds, butterflies and frogs)...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1811
That cuddly rat makes me think of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, "a story for which the world is not yet prepared", as mentioned by Sherlock Holmes:
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au...x.vampire.html
BIG RAT!!! wow!
It's a fuzzy pig! :D
The world's smallest mammals are smaller than some insects. Depending on how you define smallest (mass, length, volume, skull size, etc) the two contenders are the bumblebee bat, discovered in 1973:
http://www.batcon.org/batsmag/images/v21n2ii.jpg
Or the Etruscan Pygmy Shrew, which isn't as cute to look at so I vote bat.
I realise I am a bit of a cheetah!:o
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...nd-peacock.jpg
Ah, the elusive Rusted Horn-blowing Peacock of East Yorkshire...quite a find!
Very unusual breeding habits, and a coutrship dance that is simply mesmerising.
:D
wow, that's awesome.
It's crazy!! :D
wonder which is nearer to the natural original pig - fluffy or pinky?:confused:
aren't pigs just domesticated boars (which are hairy :confused:)
I might be wrong though, a simple google search would probably have the answer, but that sounds like way too much effort :p
yeah but there's a difference between hairy and woolly.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...angarra_03.jpg
Numbats and other mostly unknown Australian fauna pwn your souls. Gimme a hug.
http://www.sussexcaninecentre.co.uk/Fat%20dog.jpg
This is what my late dog could look like if I gave her 200 pounds 8O.
woah that's like half squrrel half anteater!
Its also called a banded anteater sometimes :D.
A recently discovered 2 million year old rodent skull fossil is believed to be from a rodent that was the size of a car and weighed a ton:
http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/TECH/sci...rodent.trs.jpg
Imagine the size of skirting board hole that monster would need!
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image..._shrew_416.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image..._galen_300.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7213571.stm
Quote:
A new species of mammal has been discovered in the mountains of Tanzania, scientists report.
The bizarre-looking creature, dubbed Rhynochocyon udzungwensis, is a type of giant elephant shrew, or sengi.
The cat-sized animal, which is reported in the Journal of Zoology, looks like a cross between a miniature antelope and a small ant eater.
It has a grey face, a long, flexible snout, a bulky, amber body, a jet-black rump and it stands on spindly legs.
is that bill oddie?
nein.
cute shrew though.
looks like a cross between a squirrel and a rat!
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/...0_Sk1l1ZGK3w--
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Indone...sdJk05l.rQOrgFQuote:
This photograph taken in July 2008 from a camera trap shows a leopard in Sebangau National Park in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province. According to British zoologist Susan Cheyne, a new population of rare leopard has been found living in thick forests on the Indonesian half of Borneo island. (AFP/HO/Susan Cheyne)
That is one gorgeous creature.
I just have to shae the pen-tailed tree shrew with you, cus I think it´s funny!
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...0000578-39.jpg
The pen-tailed tree shrew is the first non-human mammal known to display alcoholic behavior.
"The circumstances in which these tree shrews consume alcohol could be similar to past scenarios of human evolution in pre-primate or early primate stages [and] could somehow be a link to human alcohol consumption," said study lead author Frank Wiens, a biologist at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Wiens and colleagues' findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The flowers of the bertam palm produce nectar which naturally ferments—with the aid of several yeast species—to a 3.8 percent alcohol strength, similar to that of many beers.
Because the plant flowers nearly year-round, its rain forest bar is always open, and the pen-tailed tree shrew—along with several other local mammal species—are regulars.
The animals spend an average of two hours per night sipping the nectar, which appears to be their primary food source. To test the animals' alcohol consumption, Wiens and colleagues tested the animals' hair samples for ethyl glucuronide and found that the tree shrews consume alcohol at rates that would be dangerous to most mammals.
The tree shrews appear to have more efficient ways of metabolizing alcohol than humans, so they avoid getting drunk. Inebriation would be dangerous for small, potentially tasty mammals, Wiens said.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ing-shrew.html
Did you see the Birds of Paradise on Planet Earth? I think this picture came from their footage. Absolutely stunning!
http://www.surfbirds.com/Features/05...ilsonsbofp.jpghttp://s.ngm.com/2007/07/birds-of-pa...d-bird-615.jpg
Wow!
Bejesus that is cool!
Stunning. Humans are well shit in comparison.