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Post by glitchunter on May 31, 2008 0:28:15 GMT -4
Just had to beat Die_Fledermaus to it.  wierd, huh? |
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Post by Dezzi on May 31, 2008 1:58:26 GMT -4
Beat DF? That shouldn't be hard as he is busy these days. And I don't think it's weird, I think it's cute!
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Post by Hamsters82 on May 31, 2008 7:20:56 GMT -4
He looks like he was concocted from two different animals. Weird, but cool looking. Thanks for showing it glitch.
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Post by glitchunter on May 31, 2008 8:46:08 GMT -4
In my world, wierd and cute are the same thing.
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Post by pinky on May 31, 2008 14:09:55 GMT -4
I vote for cute--love the spots!
To what region of the world is it a native species? What does it eat?
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jun 2, 2008 19:26:59 GMT -4
Very cute.
>> The pacarana (Dinomys branickii) is a rare and slow-moving South American rodent found only in tropical forests of the western Amazon River basin and adjacent foothills of the Andes Mountains from northwestern Venezuela and Colombia to western Bolivia.
It is a hystricognath rodent, and the sole extant member of the family Dinomyidae in Caviomorpha; initially, it was placed with true mice. Some evidence places the pacarana as closely related to the prehistoric giant rodents that ruled South America millions of years ago, such as Phoberomys pattersoni and Josephoartigasia monesi.
Also known as Count Branicki's terrible mouse, it is known as the "pacarama" ("false paca") by native Indians due to its superficial similarity to a different caviomorph rodent, the paca.
It has a chunky body and is large for a rodent, weighing up to 15 kg (33 pounds) and measuring up to 79 cm (31.1 inches) in length, not including the thick, furry tail. <<
From Wikipedia.
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Post by pinky on Jun 3, 2008 0:08:33 GMT -4
"Paca" makes me think of "pika"--the lagamorph that kept jumping on our tent at night in the Wind River Range in Wyoming at 14,000 feet. Kept us up and was a little frightening till we realized what it was.
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Post by Dezzi on Jun 3, 2008 0:47:16 GMT -4
I think you need to get a source other than Wikipedia, DF. I've seen some incorrect information on there, and schools don't credit it as being a valid source of information, do to the fact that it is a wiki and is therefore easily edited. *grits teeth and tries not to rant about that site*
Regardless, it is a unique and cute animal! I don't think I want one, though.
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