Let's play "Guess what this critter is"

[MarkC]

These are from near Kiwiland.

 

[Shannow]

riftia ?

out of its tube ?

Thanks, I found this
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/califseeps.html

Got some weird stuff on it.

 

[MarkC]

Shannow has it. These are Vestimentiferan worms from the Builder's P{encil site, a large undersea Methane seep near New Zealand.

 

[moribundman]

Whose ears are this? I snapped that fellow in our zoo.

 

[97tbird]

Mark's.

 

[97tbird]

seriosly: hippo?

 

[moribundman]

A hairy hungry hippo? No!

 

[97tbird]

bear

 

[MarkC]

Sun Bear?

 

[moribundman]

It's not a bear, but its ears do look bearish!

It can produce a squeak that sounds remarkably like one of Pablo's squeaky rubber bath toys.

 

[97tbird]

wolverine

 

[moribundman]

 

[MarkC]

I was gonna say Tapir, but wasn't quite certain. Blast!
Are these from Belize, Brazil, Malaya..?

 

[97tbird]

what's this?

 

[MarkC]

Thas' jus' a big ol' Llama.
Unless it's a big ol' Alpaca, but I think not.
Llamas are increasingly being used in place of sheepdogs for guarding herds of woolies. They don't fear coyotes and will attack them.
They also hum, which is cool.

 

[97tbird]

yeah, specifically an "argentine machi."

 

[moribundman]

Quote:

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I was gonna say Tapir, but wasn't quite certain. Blast!
Are these from Belize, Brazil, Malaya..?

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They are either Brazilian or Brazilian/Baird's tapir hybrids. We have on Baird's tapir who is kept in a different enclosure. he's much much larger. The one in the front is the female. She's currently in heat and that's why he's chasing her around the pond all day. One of them utters those hilarious squeaks, but I can't tell which one. The same pond is shared with capybaras, who have to be removed when the tapirs are let in. The capybaras are very territorial and will bite the tapirs.

 

[MarkC]

Deadly.
What's this unique fellow?
Sorry about the photo quality(or lack thereof).

 

[Shannow]

dik dik

 

[MarkC]

No no.