Thursday, April 20, 2006

fat, lazy, giant rats!

fat, lazy, giant rats!

9 comments:

floots said...

what are they
coypu?

mahnoor said...

they look like the rishta aunty that comes to my house once every vacation.

kidding kidding!

3rd avenue said...

These are capybaras. They are the largest of all rodents. Their average weight is 100 lbs. They are good swimmers and they can sleep under the water. They even mate under water.

ambrosia said...

Omigosh! Your pics are much more clearer than those in the wikipedia link, great job! The link says that they can also be pets and considering their relaxed, surrendered post, I am wondering where you found them...

floots said...

thank you
i've been looking them up
"world's largest rodent"
(did they not count politicians) :)

ambrosia said...

ha ha, good one...:)

... but these animals are so cute, so much a part of nature, they keep our environment clean by eating up the wastes... but the politicians literally live off others... just wondering

Anonymous said...

awwww...choooooo ccuuuttteee!! But seriously..they looked like 2 lazy bums not ready to budge their asses off...cute pic Hibu:D

Anonymous said...

People may think they are cute but I know they are a nuisance. It is a little difficult to judge the size of these raths from this image so can't say the rats around my home are bigger or smaller than these. One thing is that they are huge and are not scared of anyone including cats, dogs and humans. They were responsible for the plague in Gujrat some 10-12 years ago.

3rd avenue said...

well said lulu! :P