July 16, 2007

What in the crap is this? Could some one tell me whet the crap this is and if I should be shutting my window at night?

Saw this on boingboing and I thought I would widen the search.

posted by fooliosis 16 years ago
  • I'm in the hairless guinea pig camp.........
  • eatin yor bushez :P
  • Rat with mange.
  • Balding guine pig, yes. Or a troll. A nudist troll.
  • Ya see, I thought it was a baby nudist troll as well
  • Me.
  • Oh fuck, someone's let naked mole rats into the wild. Now we're all doomed.
  • Oh, no wait, that *is* Mr. Knickerbocker. Never mind.
  • It looks exactly like my pet hairless rat. Could one have escaped?
  • *stands on chair*
  • I doubt that chubby fellow can climb any higher than his legs, fish.
  • I think it's a nutria or "swamprat." They are a South American rodent and an invasive species. Nutrias have been spotted in the Lake Union & Lake Washington areas. There was a news item about it last year, if you Google it. This one looks ill, obviously, as it has no hair!
  • It has no hair?
  • Hair, fur, whatever!
  • It looks like it still has some mangeish patches of fur. Or maybe it's just starting to grow in?
  • Looks like a baby whatever since the fur hasn't grown in yet,and it's not as big as the dandelion plant in the foreground,so it's not some monster. It also appears to live in a wet, green place. If you're not in a wet, green place you probably have nothing to worry about. If you're still worried, print off the picture and take it to a local school for identification. Poor thing, it's all alone
  • That was "in the foreground" of the larger picture. I got distracted.
  • So you're saying this thing has no fur?
  • We have nutrias all over the place in Texas. They're on the large side, so this tiny little thing is almost certainly not one. It could possibly be a baby, I don't know a damn thing about baby nutria, but it doesn't seem likely.
  • "So you're saying this thing has no fur?" Check the picture, you can see the wrinkles in the underlying skin, and the gray cast may be the start of fur growing in. Many rodents are born hairless, so this might be one, though the size and shape of the head is not typically rodent-like so far as I know. Closest I can think of is rabbit.
  • Yeah, but I don't think it has any fur. (hint: I'm being facetious)
  • Ok, it's probably a squirrel with mange. It's a similar situation to those weird hairless coyotes people were seeing out in Texas or wherever, also claimed to be El Chupacabras.
  • I don't think it could vampirize goats of any size. Does it start out as a chupahampster and work its way up?
  • Well, let's not make any assumptions. The alien that popped out of John Hurt's chest was tiny, but it quickly grew large enough to eat both Harry Dean Stanton & Yaphet Kotto.
  • *high fives path*
  • "The alien that popped out of John Hurt's chest was tiny, but it quickly grew large enough to eat both Harry Dean Stanton & Yaphet Kotto." Now that was pre-ordained.Unless fooliosis is in a movie, I think he's safe. Unless there's something mysterious about him and the dandelion is really the size of a tank, and the wet is really condensed methane gas... Uh oh, run, fooliosis, run!!!
  • Looks like a squirrel with mange to me. I seen 'em when I used to live in Guelph. Nasty mangy tree rats.
  • That's not nearly ugly enough to be a naked mole rat.
  • It's a baby nutria. Look at the size of the leaves in comparison. This thing is little. Neotony is the reason for the head being oversize compared to the body. Compare the small ears, square head, ratty four-toed hind feet, and little front feet with this pic. Most likely, something's eaten it by now.
  • A person on another site has said they have seen identical creatures before, it is indeed a squirrel with mange. Occam's Razor says it is more likely a squirrel than a nutria, BlueHorse, since the former are more common.
  • Sqrrrl Power!
  • So then it's settled, squirrel with minge.
  • I've been thinking (dangerous), and I think its more likely to be Weezle's mom with mange. . . but you would have to ask him.
  • Well, I could be wrong. Hey, wait, did you say..?
  • It looks way too fat to be a squirrel. And StB, thanks for posting a pic of a pregnant creature that is hands-down worse looking than I am right now. :)
  • I thought at first it might be a squirrel, too, but here's a baby that's just barely haired up. Ear placement, skull shape, tail, and general body just don't seem to match up. Besides, squirrels are much larger than you would think.
  • Mangy squirl. And I know me some rodents.
  • It's a hippoclaus rebortion, obviously.
  • OK, I bow to the Frogs. That's a man that knows a mangy squirl intimately!
  • I hear he had to remove one from Richard Gere's ass.
  • Tubad; I would have liked to see what an donkey and a squirrel make. A squonkey?