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How would you like to wake up and find one of these beasties going through your marshmallows? :
The giant rat is about five times the size of a typical city rat, says Kristofer Helgen, a scientist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, US.
“With no fear of humans, it apparently came into the camp several times during the trip,” he says.
{Via Neil Gaiman]
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Wasn’t that a Sherlock Holmes reference, the ‘Giant Rat of Sumatra’? Wrong end of the country, but still.
Now all we need are recipes.
Rodents of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.
PAD
I love this kind of stuff! If I could do it all over again, I think I’d be an explorer/zoologist/cryptozoologist.
Does anyone have / Two eighty pound rats? / I want to rid / My house of cats.
Shel Silverstein
I can’t wait for the manga-fied versions of this creature.
And there’s a man with sort of expression you get when you just realised that you’re holding a giant rat.