Cute isn't it?
It's called the southern grasshopper mouse. It lives in the badlands of south-western U.S. and Mexico.
It's carnivorous, fresh meat on the menu from crickets, rodents, tarantulas to scorpions and other grasshopper mice if food is a bit scarce.
And after a feast there's nothing better than throwing back one's head and howling at the moon.
Standing there like that, with open mouth, I could almost imagine it on X Factor.
I'd watch that especially after it finished with the judges.
5 comments:
Such a cute little mouse, but I'm glad he doesn't live in my house. Carnivorous little bugger might start on my toes.
"looooooove is a many splendoured thing.....!"
I am grasshopper mouse - hear me roar.
River, I couldn't upload the video with it howling at the moon but it gave me a laugh.
Kath, I will never get that image out of my mind now. I can see it at LOLcats with a photoshopped tuxedo.
EC, hear me roar is right. Scorpion stings don't bother it, they just bash it until its dead then eat the head.
Macfarlanes lantern brings out the loonies.
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