We’re going to see lots of closeups of carnivore jaws cracking bones and animals chowing down on meat today, but also, some so-ugly-they’re-cute but stubby little critters.
Yes, we’ve met the “vinegar dog” before, but one of the videos embedded in that post is gone and Animalogic just released a new one, which, among other things, compares bush dogs to their stilt-legged relative, the maned wolf.
And here is the Smithsonian Channel’s take on them:
A little lagniappe:
Not a bush dog, in so many ways — just convergent evolution, according to this devilish FAQ.
No, not this:
This:
https://youtu.be/6r3_oVriZvw?si=ur4EgDD7yBJIAZ92
This is a real emotional rollercoaster, but in a good way. Quolls are the ecomorph of cats down in marsupial-land per several papers, including this one (serious jargon alert) — which notes devils are the hyena ecomorph. There’s one cat in the video, a pretty tabby; I thought, uh oh, we’re going into that mess, but no, they kept the focus appropriately on the devil (perhaps because devils might help solve it). They also highlight a problem that many articles, etc., on endangered species don’t mention: traffic (remember, emotional rollercoaster).
But they didn’t go into the REAL problem with Tasmanian devils:
Featured image: Tambako the Jaguar, BY-ND 2.0.
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