How can they be sure it's a mammal? Could be a crustacean.
Yes, a four-legged, furry, jungle dwelling crustacean with light-reflecting eyes and a long muscular tail.
How can they have been so stupid!
That's no crustacean! In fact, it's an annelid: the tail is the creature itself, and the furry protruberance at one end is just there to scare off predators.
"..four-legged, furry, jungle dwelling crustacean with light-reflecting eyes and a long muscular tail.."
There's nothing so odd about that. The light reflecting eyes are just hood ornaments.
Pfft - not even the right kingdom. Clearly it's one of these.
I thought it was obvious:
Wulffraat
You people are so silly - it's obviously of the Argyrodes genus!
So beware of it's tendency towards kleptoparasitism!
(Ha ha! They all fell for my joke! Suckers..!)
(Oh no! Not the ol' glue the extra-long tail on the domestic cat and release it into the wilds of Borneo trick!)
My cats love that one!
Holy smokes, maybe it's the rat-monkey from Braindead!
No, the rat-monkey was eaten by the cat-monkey.
I have to admit, my reaction is less the kind I would prefer (intellectual curiosity and a desire to research and understand more about this species) than a knee jerk "I don't care what you call it or what becomes of it - just keep that thing away from me."
Chupacabra!
Fluffy.
endangered jungle being cleared to make way for palm oil plantations?? For fuck's sake! Now a brothel, or perhaps a ballpark I could see but . . . palm oil?? wtf?
There there, Fluffy. The nasty man has gone.
*quietly puts Fluffy onto the palm oil scent trail*
sik 'im, Fluffy. Do it for daddy.
Maybe the tails are prehensile, like monkey tails, and they can kill with them swing from them.
*oils up like Turkish wrestler, waits*
*whistles for Fred*
In you go Freddy. Remember - the pincer movement for this one.
But careful, he's bound to be slippery!
If it is a cross between a cat and a fox, then shouldn't it be called a "cox?" Or at least a "fat?"
Why not combine the two and call it "fat cox?"
I, for one, cannot wait to see the new fat cox.
Well, if we're going to the Onion, we might as well mention that some people are sure to want to try mysterious new mammal souffle.
By the way, do I need a rabies shot for this thread?
Tube-cat!
I think this critter is almost as cute as the baby panda. Can you imagine what a litter of these little charmers look like?
I want a mystery-mammal cam and for Petebest to give this critter a really cute name like His Fuzzness, The Duke of Squeee, Reginald "Sweet" von Tehcute-PootPoot, IV.
His Fuzzness, The Duke of Squeee, Reginald "Sweet" von Tehcute-PootPoot, IV
I just lurvs that name!
It don't care what you call it, just don't call it Late for Dinner.
Mystery critter
in the jungle
please do keep
your tail untangled
as through vines
you blithely wander
posing for the camera
yonder.
That giraffe is gonna be livin in a world of pain any minute now.
We all know that squirrels are nails.
You sure about that? 'Cause they sure do put up a fuss when I try to hit 'em with the hammer...
"...squirrels are nails"
/consults urban dictionary
Ah! Hard as nails.
I've been away from Blighty too long.
Wokkin' with mah squirrelly
where the dew is pearly
early in the maw-aw-aw-nin'!
Buttered flies all cuddle up
and kick each little buttered cub
at daw-awe-nin'!
O if I had l'l Alan's lamb
for only one day
I'd order mint sauce
and here's wot I'd say --
nothin' could be finer
than fried squirrel in a diner
in the maw...aw, hell...
ha!
Damn, I need another drink.
Yeah, that's what all the squirrels say.
Yeah, I need another drink, too. Fridge full of beer.. maybe I'll get full too.
It's our work Xmas 'do' this afternoon. Free beer apparently.
Yee Haw!
kill with themswing from them.