Tess was right about the baby Fennec fox, which, to my surprise, is a fairly popular pet. Thousands of photos HERE on Google image search, including the one I used.
And MW with appropriate subtlety indicated that he had identified the other by Googling "rare big-eared rodent," and sure enough, such a search yields the long-eared jerboa as the first hit, including a delightful National Geographic video which is linked HERE, but which I won't embed.
It has become clear to me that cute, fuzzy, cuddly creatures are too well known to the TYWKIWDBI visitorship. So we'll shift gears and offer the image above, photographed from a container of pond water currently sitting on my desk. No need to provide the genus/species of the critter that is currently terrorizing the tadpoles - just the "feline" colloquial name or the identify of the creature it will eventually mature into.
AArrrgghhh! Hideous creature from the deep!! And you keep it on your desk? Stan!!
ReplyDeleteI don't know - a pond predator, a nymph of some sort: I'm guessing here ... a dragonfly larva? A damselfly nymph? No ... that doesn't correlate with "feline" I suppose.
Mieke's stumped. Ask Tess? Young enquiring mind might know?