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Explored May 17 2010 #15
I saw this at the market the other week !
He is a beautiful creature but having lost my two ducks to a fox last week I'm rather sad. However, it is what foxes do and we can't change nature ! I'll just have to be extra vigilant with my chickens !!
His owner explained that he was an orphan who had been found injured, following a dog attack, so he raised him by hand from a cub. The poor thing looked so lost amidst all the interest he was attracting.
Vu au marché !
Il est beau, mais ayant perdu mes deux canards à un renard la semaine dernière je suis un peu triste. Toutefois, c'est ce que les renards font et nous ne pouvons pas changer la nature! Je vais être très vigilant avec mes poules!
I think this is an orb weaver that's been living in our front yard for a week now. I've kinda odopted it as a "pet." Needless to say I leave her (for some reason I think it's female) well enough alone.
For those arachnid fans out there: My ID as an orb weaver was only based on visual comparison with spider resources on the Web (excuse the pun). If anyone can make a more correct ID, I welcome it.
About the name: The angle and perspective of the web reminded me of looking down the frets on a guitar (no I'm not very musically inclined).
I took half of a personal day today and I'm so glad I did.
I woke up late for class, went and spat my plan for my next 3D project. Then got out of work and skipped Ceramics so I could go home and relax.
I got so much done that I've been neglecting. I'm so stoked about it.
This is my hedgehog, Lando Quillrissian. He's pretty much my favorite. He's a total grouch and introvert, we're meant to be.
In Boca da Valeria, Brazil, village children run to meet you. Dozens of them grasp your hand and become your new best friend, as they lead you along the pathway into their tiny village.
Other children dot the pathway watching and waiting. Many of them have brought their Amazon pets with them, too. Parrots, tapirs, monkeys, lizards, and big fat tarantulas.
The children capture tarantulas and using string,hog-tie them to branches. Then they offer them up to to photo-hungry tourists.
What you don't see is the dollar signs in this boy's eyes. The children don't speak English, but they do know the phrase, "ONE dollar."
It is a clever and harmless way (at least for the child) to earn income, in a place where income is very limited. And the children seem to enjoy the shock their "pets" inspire!
(If I was a Photoshopper, I would have overlayed dollar signs in the boy's eyes.)
For more info on these children, please see my comment in the photostream.
this is the latest in a litter of hairless (and long haired) rats.
Im looking for info on the genetics behind these because the results i am getting in my breeding program tell me that it is not the same system of inheritance as with my hairless mice. If anyone could direct me to some info i would appreciate it, otherwise im just going to have to keep breeding them and try and work out a pattern in the offspring myself, if the damned things didnt keep escaping i could probably do this but the spanner in the works is that every now and then something happens that results in a few getting out, getting pregnant to mystery rats and my research goes out the window. Its not that they get out on their own, sometimes a fox gets into the shed and manages to open up a cage, sometimes a young child will go in there and i wont notice etc. im beginning to think im going to have to set up some kind of futuristic fingerpring or eye scanner security system to enter the shed if i ever want to unravel the genetic mysteries of the hairless rat. In this litter the whole lot of them were hairless (as normal for new born) and until about 7 weeks did not have any hair.. In the past week there are some that have sprouted long fluffy coats, a couple who have random tufts of long hair and a predominnately bald body, one totally hairless one and one seemingly normal short coated cute little ginger rat.
If anyone would like to own one of these email me jane@iinet.net.au but note that i am located in western australia.
similarly, if there is anyone out there who breeds these animals and are willing to share their knowledge please email me - and one more thing, as much as rats tend to make people recoil in horror, it is very surprising to find out just how clever, inquisitive and genuinely intelligent these animals are. They actually do make great low maintenence pets, if you use kitty litter on the floor of the cage there is minimal odour and they truly do look happy to see you when you go to feed them, much like a dog. They really do have a lot going for them as cute little companions and dont deserve the bad press that their naughty street cousins bring them.
all of these baby rats are out of the same litter - it consisted of hairless, wiry haired and regular type rats.. they LOVE sunflower seeds, im going to have to grow some more.
He is huge now, he was the size of a quarter when I got him in Myrtle Beach SC, but now he is 4 years old and he is the size of a softball, he has a partially red colored shell which turned that way after he ate lots of goldfish and huge nightcrawlers, I don't know if that has anything to do with his color or not, he will eat out of my hand. sorry about the reflection in the water on him. He used to be Myrtle the turtle, but we figured out he is a male because of his extra long front claws.
Finally got some shots of Moulin this evening. Rouge, of course, was a camera hog almost immediately,. Moulin's rather a lot shyer...