Archive for the ‘ Mammals ’ Category
Much like people who want to make it in ‘business’, a tarsier’s eye is as big as its brain. In the tarsier’s case, this is because its eyes are massive. They have ridiculously long fingers. The third one is the same length as their upper arms. Two of their toes have bear claws – but not [ READ MORE ]
A gliding marsupial. That’s pretty cool. Sugar gliders live in trees and are nocturnal. They’re called sugar gliders because they like sweet foods, although their preference is for fruit, rather than cakes or chocolate. Weirdly, despite living in groups of about 15 and therefore seeming like they might be quite sociable animals, they actually boot their young [ READ MORE ]
I don’t know. It’s just a freaky little lemur, I guess. The picture above looks pretty hideous, but they’re not quite so bad when they’re full-grown. Focusing on the weird look rather detracts from its major selling point anyway. The Aye-aye has a truly massive middle finger. It doesn’t use this finger for expressing its displeasure [ READ MORE ]
That, my friends, is a pangolin. Pangolins are also known, more descriptively, as scaly anteaters and quite sensibly, they only live in the tropics, although less sensibly they’re nocturnal. Features of the pangolin About one to three feet long Loads and loads of really sticky spit which it uses to gather termites The tree pangolin hangs from trees by its [ READ MORE ]
That, my friends, is a capybara. It’s a big, fuck-off rodent and its name means ‘master of the grasses’ which is a brilliantly overblown name for something so lumpen. Capybaras seem to be animals that aren’t really made for mooching around fields eating grass. For one thing they’ve got webbed feet, which seems totally unnecessary. Secondly, their [ READ MORE ]
That, my friends, is a numbat. As with most mammals that you think you should recognise but don’t, it’s from Australia. And yes, it is a marsupial, because Australia can’t build an animal without sticking a damn pocket on it. What do numbats eat? They eat termites and NOTHING ELSE. They need to eat about 20,000 of [ READ MORE ]