A chance to meet an African crested rat, or Lophiomys imhausi, which the New York Times recently described as "a creature so large, flamboyantly furred and thickly helmeted it hardly seems a member of the international rat consortium. Yet it is indeed a rat, a deadly dirty rat, its superspecialized pelt permeated with potent toxins harvested from trees."
I mean, how could you NOT want to encounter one of these sweet lil' fur babies and it's "twinned flank strips of doom"?
I mean, it looks so cute....
And the best news of all?? It lives in Kenya and Somalia!
On second thought, maybe I'll hold out for a sloth, which I have been rather obsessed with ever since I saw this:
And now, thanks to Ellen DeGeneres (has anyone ever said that before?), I know I'm not alone.
I'm fairly certain that's exactly what would happen to me.
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