Archive for the ‘ Mammals ’ Category
The brown antechinus is responsible for bringing some serious love into the animal kingdom. Its male population is so libidinously fixated that it effectively submits itself to death-by-orgy to engage in a kamikaze fuckfest throughout the mating season. This marsupial is capable of screwing a single partner for up to 12 hours straight, so he’s [ READ MORE ]
How did I not know this about porcupines until now? How is this not common knowledge? Maybe because it’s disgusting. When a female porcupine is on heat, the bloke ambles around smelling places where she has had a slash and apparently that gets him going. At that point, the pair engage in a ‘comical dance’. [ READ MORE ]
Well, he might look like a member of The Kinks and he might be one of the biggest-selling artistes in the jungles of South America, but he just couldn’t make it in the UK. It’s been argued that his lack of success in the English-speaking world is chiefly a question of image: the main problem [ READ MORE ]
Bats aren’t really anybody’s favourite pets, but this one is on a one-bat mission to ruin bat-human relations for all eternity. It’s all down to the fact that this bat clearly recognises how fond we are of cuteness when it comes to animals, before flying right in the face of our aesthetics. Talking of faces [ READ MORE ]
If you’ve ever wondered what the illegitimate lovechild of a feather duster and a coke bottle would look like then the pink fairy armadillo is only too happy to provide you with an answer. This gorgeous little rodent gives Tinkerbell a run for her money as the prettiest and most precocious of the fairies out [ READ MORE ]
What do you call a white donkey? A honky. What do you call a donkey with two short legs? A wonky. What do you call a donkey that lives in a tree? A monkey. What do you call a donkey that you can use to repair a bike? An Allen key. What do you call [ READ MORE ]
Hey, er, you’re going to get to meet my new girlfriend tonight. She should be here in a bit. Is she hot? Er, well, yeah… She’s warm-blooded anyway. What does she look like? She’s got quite small eyes. I mean really, really, very small eyes. No, not like piggy eyes – much smaller than that. [ READ MORE ]
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 [ 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 [ 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 [ READ MORE ]