Help me identify this strange animal.

[GrumpyMan]

No resemblance either.

It's Perry, the Platypus!!! Great secret agent.

 

[highland145]

It's Perry, the Platypus!!! Great secret agent.

Yep. No relation to flat Stanley in Newnan, GA.

 

[Ichinisan]

... fuck beavers.

Can someone explain how this would work? I've been wondering. :hmm:

 

[DrPizza]

So, did you keep it? The pelt is probably worth about $20, and the skull, if cleaned, is worth $25-30 on ebay. Or, you can learn how to tan a hide & do some simple taxidermy. A few hours of your time and it'd easily sell for a couple hundred dollars.

 

[Ichinisan]

So, did you keep it? The pelt is probably worth about $20, and the skull, if cleaned, is worth $25-30 on ebay. Or, you can learn how to tan a hide & do some simple taxidermy. A few hours of your time and it'd easily sell for a couple hundred dollars.

Wish I had thought of that

 

[cronos]

No resemblance either.

True. Perry is safe :thumbsup:

 

[SKORPI0]

So, did you keep it? The pelt is probably worth about $20, and the skull, if cleaned, is worth $25-30 on ebay. Or, you can learn how to tan a hide & do some simple taxidermy. A few hours of your time and it'd easily sell for a couple hundred dollars.

Poor Platypus.
So I take it that a duck and beaver mated to result in that animal? D:

 

[pcgeek11]

When the young get big the parents kick them out and they have to locate a new stream/pond. They are very possessive of their water. He was probably looking for a home before some sap ran him down in the road.

 

[pcgeek11]

They are not rare in Georgia. My brother and I used to trap Beaver and Opposum when we were teens and sell the hides $$$$.

 

[CZroe]

First time I've seen one in-person, so I took a picture. Looks like it belongs in a water habitat...because it's wet and it came out when it was raining (then got hit by a car).

Other than precipitation, there's no water nearby. Poor little fella.

I saw it a few days ago too. Jefferson St on the side opposite Dairy Queen:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.379329,-84.798846&num=1&t=h&z=20

 

[DaTT]

Was it a smelly beaver?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was thinking beaver but the tail seems too narrow. It would help if there was a pic of the whole animal, or I'm guessing the rest was gruesome? lol

 

[Ichinisan]

When the young get big the parents kick them out and they have to locate a new stream/pond. They are very possessive of their water. He was probably looking for a home before some sap ran him down in the road.

Pretty sure it was an adult. It was much larger than I expected. Size of a medium dog.

 

[SKORPI0]

Didn't know beavers liked carrots.

 

[Ichinisan]

I was thinking beaver but the tail seems too narrow. It would help if there was a pic of the whole animal, or I'm guessing the rest was gruesome? lol

Not really:

I was going to imply that I didn't know which end was the front and mistook it for a platypus

 

[Ichinisan]

Was it a smelly beaver?

Didn't smell anything, but that might have something to do with me being sick for the last couple weeks.

 

[CZroe]

Didn't know beavers liked carrots.

And then he's all... "a nom a nom nom nom"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UCxZ9PMNOE

 

[zokudu]

Its got to be 100% a beaver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver

 

[Ichinisan]

Its got to be 100% a beaver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver

I'm not 100% convinced. I think it's a furry reptile of some kind.

Look at the scaly hands/forelimbs in the original post. Look at the snout. It's almost like a duck bill. There were duck-billed dinosaurs, you know.

 

[zokudu]

I'm not 100% convinced. I think it's a furry reptile of some kind.

Look at the scaly hands/forelimbs in the original post. Look at the snout. It's almost like a duck bill. There were duck-billed dinosaurs, you know.

That's not its snout thats clearly its tail and back feet. Look at the pictures on the wiki. They match almost perfectly. Not to mention the feet in that first picture have nails facing downwards.

Lay on your stomach. Which of your appendages have nails facing downward?

 

[Ichinisan]

First time I've seen one in-person, so I took a picture. Looks like it belongs in a water habitat...because it's wet and it came out when it was raining (then got hit by a car).

Other than precipitation, there's no water nearby. Poor little fella.

Its got to be 100% a beaver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver

I'm not 100% convinced. I think it's a furry reptile of some kind.

Look at the scaly hands/forelimbs in the original post. Look at the snout. It's almost like a duck bill. There were duck-billed dinosaurs, you know.

That's not its snout thats clearly its tail and back feet. Look at the pictures on the wiki. They match almost perfectly. Not to mention the feet in that first picture have nails facing downwards.

Lay on your stomach. Which of your appendages have nails facing downward?

I still think you're wrong.

 

[CZroe]

I'm not 100% convinced. I think it's a furry reptile of some kind.

Look at the scaly hands/forelimbs in the original post. Look at the snout. It's almost like a duck bill. There were duck-billed dinosaurs, you know.

Whatever it is, it'll make a great first avatar.

 

[edro]

Definitely a snuffalupagus.

 

[Ichinisan]

Definitely a snuffalupagus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/snuffalupagus

:hmm: there is some resemblance.

 

[Ichinisan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoreum :whiste:

Food use
In the United States, Castoreum has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a food additive,[12] often referenced simply as a "natural flavoring" in the product's list of ingredients. It is commonly used in both food and beverages, especially as vanilla and raspberry flavoring.[13]

Om nom nom. :awe: