Who took this picture!? This absolutely PERFECT picture??? It is just… so… perfect. Distilled autumn pastoral fantasy. The colorful mushroom, the curl of the fern and flowers, the muted background foliage, the beady eyes and precise whiskers of the tiny squeakbeast!!! Unreal. Wow.
The artist is Phil Winter, and he deserves to be credited for such a wonderful photo.
Who took this picture!? This absolutely PERFECT picture??? It is just… so… perfect. Distilled autumn pastoral fantasy. The colorful mushroom, the curl of the fern and flowers, the muted background foliage, the beady eyes and precise whiskers of the tiny squeakbeast!!! Unreal. Wow.
Mouse Aggression
「窮鼠猫を噛む」
And this is where we get the warning about a cornered rat. Adrenaline can do mighty things.
Cuties! Saw these guys right next to the road at a local park, took some pics from in the car. There were about five mice in the immediate area, coming in and out of a large shrub to forage, seemingly unaware that it was daytime. It was in a rural area, so maybe there just aren’t many predators? @why-animals-do-the-thing any clue what mice would be doing foraging in broad daylight?
Also, anyone know what the bigger one is? I know the mouse is a deer mouse, but I’m not sure what to make of the other one. It had a short tail, maybe 2″ long, and I couldn’t tell if the tail had any fur. The mice were approaching it with no reservations, so it must not be territorial, but it doesn’t look like any rat I’ve ever seen, and it’s way too big to be a mouse. Maybe something like a vole?
Update:
Did some Googling. That’s probably a meadow vole. Larger than a mouse, fat body, short muzzle, short tail, feeding on plant matter in an area of short grass, not aggressive towards mice. It probably lives in a burrow under that bush with the mice.
Cuties! Saw these guys right next to the road at a local park, took some pics from in the car. There were about five mice in the immediate area, coming in and out of a large shrub to forage, seemingly unaware that it was daytime. It was in a rural area, so maybe there just aren’t many predators? @why-animals-do-the-thing any clue what mice would be doing foraging in broad daylight?
Also, anyone know what the bigger one is? I know the mouse is a deer mouse, but I’m not sure what to make of the other one. It had a short tail, maybe 2″ long, and I couldn’t tell if the tail had any fur. The mice were approaching it with no reservations, so it must not be territorial, but it doesn’t look like any rat I’ve ever seen, and it’s way too big to be a mouse. Maybe something like a vole?
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