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La Vie des Animaux Illustrée. Written by Alfred Brehm. Illustration by Theodor Franz Zimmermann. 1869 French edition.
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she vanilla on my extract til i win the poll
stop listening to music and start listening to the sounds of nature. the “eagles?”The “rolling stones?” The “beetles?” Come into the beautiful forest with me and you will find all of those things friend…. I promise….If you just believe<3
it's...... mouse time
it’s Tuesday. time for rat milk circle
scientists are blowing up rats and shit in a lab trying to figure out how to make an even more refreshing mint, and they’re starting to get there
Our favorite photo from when I was trying to get a Christmas-card worthy photo.
Bullfinch mounted mouse barbarian.
Prints
BIG HAMSTER
A story about feudal subway rats who’ve never seen a seashell before 🐀🍕
Southern Mountain Cavy (Microcavia australis)
photo credit: Ezequiel Racker
(he was the size of a hotdog.)
Found this big guy traped on the stairs at my house (he was the size of a hotdog). Did some searching and found out he's a death head hawkmoth caterpillar, pretty cool. We made sure to leave him near some plants he can eat and checked if he would survive the cold. He should be fine and will be an adorable omen of death in a couple of months.
Colorata Yanbaru Creatures Ryukyu Long-furred Rat (Diplothrix legata) plush
A rat endemic to Japan that lives in Yanbaru, the northern part of the main island of Okinawa.
Engineers going to uni for years to learn what beavers 🦫 know intuitively. Embarrassing.
Harvest mouse on a dandelion by Dean Mason.
the air conditioning is OFF.
the window is CLOSED.
he is listening to BABY SHARK 10 HOUR LOOP.
i hate this dog.
zlibrary gone... FUCK TIKTOK FUCK BOOKTOK I hope that app burns in hell
mutuals
it's No Nuance November!! say whatever stupid shit you want and do not elaborate!!!!
4 billion baby stoats across the horizon
gotta fight them inner demons, baby
personally i am a big Act 1 guy. no character development for me thanks!!
Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
Someone who blindly follows a crowd is often compared to a lemming, which are famous for following each other blindly (often to their deaths). However, this perception isn’t entirely true. Most species of lemmings migrate to some degree; the largest migration is undertaken by Norway lemmings. These expeditions are so large that individuals can be trampled, or forced over the edges of cliffs by sheer pressing momentum of the crowd, but none willingly throw themselves to their deaths.
(Image: A defensive Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus) by Juniors Bildarchiv)
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bro looks like he hosts a podcast reviewing deli meats and cheeses
Currently crying about Yoso-Tama-No-Kakehashi, a Japanese guidebook from the 1700s about raising rats. It's the first known rat guidebook in the world :)
They were raised as pets and for show animals, and it's mentioned in the guidebook that "one can call out and rats will come to hand". They were referred to as "nezumi" and it was considered important that they have large cages to live in. There was also a variety of rat that had a fox-like coat!
Rats were domesticated in Japan from the 1600s to the 1800s - it's unknown if any of those domesticated strains are ancestral to the current domestic rats today. They were domesticated again in Europe in the 1800s (initially for much crueler reasons than just for being pets) and I think it's just so sweet that we as humans fell in love with rats so much that we had to domesticate them at least TWICE...
You can download an article about the guidebook here. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/expanim/60/1/60_1_1/_pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwioidaLs5z6AhUojIkEHRI1BvEQFnoECAkQAg&usg=AOvVaw3aarTW0iy1HybCcrxtp4ww