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(he was the size of a hotdog.)

Found this big guy traped on the stairs at my house (he was the size of a hotdog). Did some searching and found out he's a death head hawkmoth caterpillar, pretty cool. We made sure to leave him near some plants he can eat and checked if he would survive the cold. He should be fine and will be an adorable omen of death in a couple of months.

do you have any images of cassowaries eat a tasty fruit?

Why yes, here you go...

Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), EAT A TASTY FRUIT!!!, family Casuariidae, order Casuariiformes, northern Australia

photograph by Jan Wegener

yeah that's a beast alright

Hartebeest By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

Currently crying about Yoso-Tama-No-Kakehashi, a Japanese guidebook from the 1700s about raising rats. It's the first known rat guidebook in the world :)

They were raised as pets and for show animals, and it's mentioned in the guidebook that "one can call out and rats will come to hand". They were referred to as "nezumi" and it was considered important that they have large cages to live in. There was also a variety of rat that had a fox-like coat!

Rats were domesticated in Japan from the 1600s to the 1800s - it's unknown if any of those domesticated strains are ancestral to the current domestic rats today. They were domesticated again in Europe in the 1800s (initially for much crueler reasons than just for being pets) and I think it's just so sweet that we as humans fell in love with rats so much that we had to domesticate them at least TWICE...

You can download an article about the guidebook here. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/expanim/60/1/60_1_1/_pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwioidaLs5z6AhUojIkEHRI1BvEQFnoECAkQAg&usg=AOvVaw3aarTW0iy1HybCcrxtp4ww

the snoldering snirker...

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