#pouched rats

[odditiesnoctobermidnightroad]

Familiar Friday - Gambian Pouch Rat

Although black and brown wild rats the world over can get very big -and undead- the world over, the true rodents of unusual size are Pouched Rats. They may be your nightmare OR your dream come true, depending on how you feel about rats. They're used in Tanzania for sniffing out landmines to dismantle and for detecting tuberculous- so they’re littlebig heroes! 

[levemetal]

I got Procreate and gave it a test run with some silly AU sketches of course

So have Calamity SJ adopting Hong‘er! Ft. my silly calamity MNQ AU and it’s inevitable conclusion of atticwife Jun Wu in the second pic because I am no longer in control here.

SY tried to be the cool uncle, unfortunately YQY is the cooler uncle so he got the Feng Xin treatment. Binghe about to start beef with a child lmfao.

Ling Wen is new heavenly emperor and I ensure you she is as overworked as ever, but she does not care about heavenly officials marrying calamities anymore. First was YQY, and then Jun Wu. Xie Lian and Shi Qingxuan are really not trendstarters here.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

(Bonus) Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

If you like rats, you'll love the Gambian pouched rat, because there is a lot to love! It is the world's largest rat, weighing anywhere from 1.0 and 1.4 kg (2.2 and 3.1 lb). They are named for their equally impressive cheek pouches, which they use to hoard large quantities of food inside their burrows.

(Image: A Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus) by Aubrey Kelley)

Want to request an uncharismatic critter? Just send me proof of donation to any of these vetted fundraisers for Palestinian refugees!

[ra1ny-daze]

those are certainly some creatures. little critters. if you will. their names are all will wood references. btw

[sentience-if]

Val affectionately calling a short MC a rat with MC taking a little pride in having their first nickname and then crying profusely when they actually see a rat for the first time and it scared them.

god Val how're you gonna get yourself outta this one

[mindblowingscience]

Giant African pouched rats are as clever as they are cute. Trained them to wear little backpacks, they can rescue people from disaster areas in return for a treat.

They can also find landmines that need disarming, sniff out tuberculosis, and have even been recruited in the fight against wildlife poaching.

So handy are these intelligent mammals, we can't seem to breed enough of them. It's not just a problem with demand – the supply is also mysteriously limited.

While many fellow rodents are notorious for their ability to rampantly multiply, the pouched rats (Cricetomys gambianus) have proven frustratingly unprolific.

"We wanted to understand their reproductive behaviors and olfactory capabilities, because they have been so important in humanitarian work," explained behavioral ecologist Alex Ophir in 2019 when first looking into their breeding behavior.

Around a meter (3 feet) long from whiskers to tail-tip, the animals are more closely related to a genus of Madagascan rodents called antsangy, than true rats. Their life-span is also a relatively lengthy eight years, with some females holding off on breeding until they're four years old. Some will stop breeding again after a successful pregnancy.

Baffled, researchers took a closer look and found to everyone's astonishment many of the female rats hadn't merely sworn off more kids, they'd closed shop, sealing off their vaginas.

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[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

That cute bunny girl is called Noisette.Can you please tell me what you cooked besides pizza?

Pep: "...!"

Pep: "Si! Noisette was her name! Grazie friends! And grazie for Poco Noisette!"

Pep: "…Reh ot yrros yas ot deen I... Niaga reh ees nac I epoh I…"

Pep: "Bocnroc etalocohc ekil! Wonk I sepicer rehto eht fo emos em thguat ehs! Ssendnik reh rof reh knaht ot deen osla I tub."

Pep: "Enoyreve deef ot dah I tahw htiw dluoc I revetahw gnikam yltsom saw ti. Oot gnikab fo stol dna atsap fo stol saw ereht, azzip sediseb dekooc I tahw rof sa."

Pep: "Niaga yrt ot ecin eb dluow ti os, elihw a ni nevo gnikrow a dah t'nevah I. Noos gnikooc emos uoy wohs nac I ebyam!"

Pep: "Yrros... Naem uoy ohw wonk I kniht t'nod I... 'Sessob niam'...? Noitseuq rehto eht dna..."

[lord-eden]

Redesigning my OCs - Clara Klank

This is a character that's been in the bottom of my pocket since 2021. Now Clara Klank (Kl-ahnk) was going to be introduced in chapter 2 of my "Friendly Aspect" Comic but that's been put on hold because, of course, personal life's gotten busy and fandom stuff took up most of my free time. Clara is part of the Friendly Aspect group but she handles the business side of it. She met Jeff because of her connections with Cam. Business women by day, underground dancer by night. She is quite passionate about music actually! I'm giving credit where credit is due! A good friend of mine, Pockeydreamer on Instagram, originally designed and developed Clara and then gave her to me. Although she's a background character in FA, I'm gonna try to draw and develop her even more. Lastly, she is a Gambian Pouched Rat!

[kannibalkaiii]

Survival Horror Rats

Resident Evil edition 🐀

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[nexus-nebulae]

BOXTOP STOP TRYING TO CHEW ON THE RATS

[thoughtlessarse]

Mwajuma Abdalla Ngema went to the clinic in Dar es Salaam with a persistent cough and intense pain around her ribs. The mother of two was tested for tuberculosis (TB) but the result came back negative. “I was given some medication to manage the cough but the pain was unbearable,” says Ngema, who went home feeling frustrated at the lack of clarity over her health. A few days later, Ngema was called back to Mbagala Kizuiani clinic – she had subsequently tested positive. She was relieved to finally have a diagnosis: “I am currently on medication and on the road to recovery.” Robert Ndoto, 55, tells a similar story. Living with HIV, he is particularly susceptible to tuberculosis but his tests were also negative. A few days later he was told he did have TB. The diagnosis meant he could start medication for the bacterial infection, which he was able to access through Mkuta, a local health organisation that targets TB and HIV. “I was in bad shape when I met Salma Matamika [a volunteer with Mkuta]. I had listened to her give a talk about TB. She became the link between me and TB treatment,” he says. “If you have HIV and TB, you can easily die.” Unusually, Ngema and Ndoto’s revised TB diagnoses came after specially trained giant rats detected the disease in samples of the patients’ sputum, or mucus from the lungs and airways. The screening programme, run by a charity called Apopo, is only used in Tanzania and Ethiopia. They are among 30 countries on the World Health Organisation’s list of countries with a high TB burden.

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[bmpmp3]

ive mentioned this before but i really do love my key rat so much. i need to try to reverse engineer how this thing was constructed. i need to know how he was created

[pacificremains]

Look at this absolute limousine. Long boi.

It's a pouched rat skull. With a pathological dent in the cranium too!

[excited-insomniac]

Amazing work being done by APOPO 🐀

[muffinapologist]

We need to start domesticating more species of rats and I mean that

[ressoroll]

HAPPY MAD RAT MONDAY 💥💥