This is just for fun and the only rule is: No researching. Reading other people’s guesses prior to posting your own is optional. Answer will be posted in the comments tomorrow.
This is just for fun and the only rule is: No researching. Reading other people’s guesses prior to posting your own is optional. Answer will be posted in the comments tomorrow.
Some kind of punked out muskrat?
Nutria, I’m thinking it’s a nutria.
And after showing the pic to a friend from Florida, who laughed and said it was too small to be a nutria, I’m unsure. Its tail is too furry for it to be a muskrat, so maybe it’s some critter occupying a similar habitat niche on another continent, like Asia, in which case, I don’t know what it’s called.
it’s a mutant punk rat with a furry tail
Ooo! Ooo! Damn. I don’t remember what they’re called. But I read about them earlier this year, they’re a species of S. American rat that’d been thought extinct for a century. I remember, because I thought, now, there’s a pretty rat. Such color!
iT IS A NUTRIA!!! We have tons in La and they make great coats and taste great! Put on some rice! LOL!
ANSWER TIME:
This is a red-crested tree rat. They were thought extinct, having been last sighted in 1898 before suddenly showing up again in 2011. Yay!
From Wired:
To those who guessed nutria – we already did that one!
http://yesbiscuit.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/name-that-animal-19/
(I can’t remember many of the Name That Animals myself and in fact sometimes I forget them between the time I post the picture and when it comes time for me to post the answer. Hopefully you all have better retention abilities than me.)