#Badgered

[sniffanimal]

uh oh! this post got too popular! time for me too append a big gif of a sniffer to the top

[sakrafka]

european mustelids

[mammalidentifier]

Well, that’s length-wise rather than height-wise, but yes! That would be the giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), fellow countrymen of mine!

In fact, saying they’re 170 cm (5’7”) from head to tail is lowballing it a little. Some individuals as long as 180 cm (5’11”) have been recorded! Which is longer than I am tall 😔

You might have noticed that giant otters have a bit of a big cat-like look about themselves. That’s the origin of their name in Brazilian Portuguese, ariranha, which is a term from the Tupi-Guarani language and means “river jaguar”. And, just like ground jaguars, giant otters are apex predators as well: they mainly eat fish, but will hunt anything from snakes, turtles and even small caimans if given the opportunity!

Besides their size, giant otters have other traits that set them apart from their smaller cousins. For one, unlike most mustelids, they’re social animals who live in familial groups of up to twenty individuals, which whom they communicate constantly through a variety of different noises. Also, unlike other species of otter, whose tails are thick at the base and pointy at the end, giant otters’ tails also start out with a thick base, but they end up flat, which helps propel them through the water. The interesting thing about it, however, it’s that it’s not flat in an horizontal way, like the tails of other semiaquatic mammals such as beavers and platypuses. It’s flat vertically, not unlike the tail of a newt!

Source of the 2nd image: @resgateariranha on Instagram

[queenoftheantz]

'Til I can hear it crack

There's this urban legend that if you have to pass a den of badgers, you should fill your boots with onions, because when a badger bites you it will hold on until it can hear your bones crack.

[wouas]

Beasts - 19x15 cm paper, ballpoint pen

[kendyroy]

Logan wearing the TVA jacket his boyfriend gave him.

+ Proof of his boyfriend giving it to him

[tomiyeee]

[snoopylovessoup]

Goodnight

[dragoncuspid]

Just found out about the Hog Badger ???? I love when the creature

[mischievous-thunder]

Meanwhile Wade:

[sniffanimal]

no more group chats. we meet once a week from now on and everyone prepares 2 personal stories and 3-5 memes and we sit in a circle and have a Socratic seminar covering these topics

[badgerclawsaresharp]

trifecta of brennan lee mulligan self-inserts in fantasy high junior year

[zangerdanger]

DAZED IN CMYK 😵‍💫 for @/freezebadger.bsky.social

[beehunterkisser]

stylised some MORE sonic characters for funs