2025

a fun fact about springhares: they glow pink under UV light! scientists speculate it's possible predators may be UV-sensitive, but also contend it could be a big evolutionary accident.

(Image credit: Olson et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-83588-0)

Another such rodent that glows for some??? reason is the Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans)

(Image credit: Lee H. Rentz)

russian art doll lookin thang

bro looks like he hosts a podcast reviewing deli meats and cheeses

This is the Paucidentomys vermidax, the edented Sulawesi rat. It lives in remote rainforest areas on the Indonesian island that is part of its name. It is the only rodent without molars, which it doesn't need because its diet is likely entirely made up of soft, easy to chew earthworms.

Discovered only in 2012, it is one of the most recent species of rodent (and mammal) to be described.

Mice straight up go on missions and no body talks about it

Everybody give a lil' clap

Merry 2000 Trained Rats, everybody

I FUCKING LOVE GRASS

I LOVE GRASSLANDS BIOMES

I LOVE PRAIRIES

I LOVE STEPPES

HOUSE FOR BUGS

FOOD FOR HERBIES (short for herbivores)

CAMOUFLAGE FOR CARNIES (short for carnivores)

GRASS IS GOOD, BIODIVERSITY IS GOOD, STOP MOWING YOUR FUCKING LAWNS