Today I will be taking my family and my healthy interest in spotting dead animals to Longleat Safari Park, though that attraction is admittedly more famous for alive ones. I will also be attempting to spot herpes-infected monkeys, from a distance.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Dead animal spotting update
Following the weasel/stoat controversy, I yesterday spotted another interesting dead animal on the lane. Any idea what this rodent is? A poor photo I'm afraid (for which no possible excuses given that the subject remained very still throughout the shoot) but it was small, perhaps two inches long, with a long nose.
Today I will be taking my family and my healthy interest in spotting dead animals to Longleat Safari Park, though that attraction is admittedly more famous for alive ones. I will also be attempting to spot herpes-infected monkeys, from a distance.
Today I will be taking my family and my healthy interest in spotting dead animals to Longleat Safari Park, though that attraction is admittedly more famous for alive ones. I will also be attempting to spot herpes-infected monkeys, from a distance.
My guess is a field vole.
ReplyDeleteIf it had a really long nose it could be a shrew.
ReplyDeleteI see your field vole and raise you a shrew.
ReplyDeleteOr a pygmy hippo on the boulder strewn lower slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, after a night out with three gazelles and a brace of meerkats.
ReplyDeleteJim Clark used to race Singer Gazelles.
My comment's disappeared from here. Same thing's happening on my site. Mysterious blogger bug.
ReplyDeleteBTW I speculated 'shrew' but would need a better look at the snout.
Shrew or vole?? A long nose sounds a bit shrew-like. It doesn't look very well, anyway. Maybe it died of gout which apparently is all the rage these days.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm sure I've now identified it. I measured the ratio of the hind legs to the snout to the paws to the tail. I'm convinced it's this.
ReplyDeleteI believe it to be some form of gigantic tree sloth, photographed from space.
ReplyDeleteThanks all, I think we'll go with...ummmm.... shrew.
ReplyDelete