#octodon

[lindentea]

ngl, the timing of bringing Deanna home couldn't've been more perfect. this little fuzzball has been saving me. which is not to say that Mister hasn't also been saving me. but it's nice to have a second opinion.

[evaporites]

Max and Pichu being cuties

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Think your family is close-knit? Try living with a family of common degus! These small rodents live in groups of 2-12, typically with 1-2 dominant males and 2-5 breeding females. The adults construct highly complex burrows together by forming digging chains, and unrelated females will often nest together and nurse each other's young. Even on the surface, the family sticks together to forage and dust-bathe.

(Image: Two common degus (Octodon degus) by Brian Gratwicke)

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[rodentfrnk]

eepy Frank as Common degu (Octodon degus)

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

I was mentioned on a post with this animal! Thank you @zorillerrant!

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

Say hi to OctoDon!!!

[sixeye-sketch]

find me mostly here@tumlr actually but if you really wanna there's:

bluesky: @sixey.es (thirst rb's)

cohost: RIP in peace

mastodon: rip octodon

also i make a website; https://sixey.es/ check it out if you're into such things. HTML my beloved

[mammalidentifier]

Left:

Rock hyrax (Procavia capensis)

Southern viscacha (Lagidium viscacia)

Rock cavy (Kerodon rupestris)

Right:

Alpine pika (Ochotona alpina)

Common gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi)

Common degu (Octodon degus)

When I'm a small prey mammal and I've evolved to survive the barren rocky landscape by optimizing into a tan egg

[entomoblog]

Qu’est-ce que les amitiés entre animaux nous enseignent sur l’idée d’espèce ?

See on Scoop.it - Variétés entomologiques

Amitiés entre hamster et serpent, partage de terrier entre porc-épic et python… Autant de relations inter espèces qui nous invitent à sonder la façon dont les espèces se perçoivent entre elles.

  Publié: 9 janvier 2025, 09:39 CET

Meredith Root-Bernstein

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Colocataires de terrier

"Il y a aussi beaucoup de cas d’animaux qui partagent les mêmes terriers. Par exemple, pendant ma thèse de doctorat sur le [rongeur] dègue du Chili (Octodon degus), qui vit en colonies dans des terriers, j’ai demandé à mes collègues de me fournir une liste de tous les animaux qu’ils avaient vus vivant ou cherchant l’abri dans les terriers des dègues. La liste incluait d’autres petits mammifères, la chevêche des terriers (Athene cunicularia) et le tourco à moustaches (Pteroptochos megapodius), des insectes et des mygales, (...)"

  Image : Qu'est-ce qu'une espèce ? par Meredith Root-Bernstein, éditions Humensciences.

[lindentea]

sketched the lefthand side late last night while i was sleepy and buzzed after i got home from a first date that i think (hope) went well. 😈

righthand side... welp. i've been having a lot of Feelings™️.... tl;dr is i have to surrender my degus to a shelter (don't come at me, it's for legit legit fucked up life-situation reasons that are neither my fault nor under my control but i still hate myself and blame myself for it) and filling out the paperwork is... a little rough, to say the least. ughhhhhhhfhhfghghhhh

i just... don't want to let go of my babygirl Deanna and as someone with HELLAAAA abandonment issues myself (HELLO BORDERLINE), i am reallyyyyy struggling with being the abandoner.

ANYHOW UHHH...!! these pencils are a dream to sketch with. in case you can't tell, they're double-pointed, half-red, half-black.

[evaporites]

I’m a bad pet parent. (In my defense, she’s very cute)

[aspia-leif]

[jezatalks]

J'ai revu ma nièce et mes neveux préférés aujourd'hui. La vraie raison était l'anniversaire de leur maman.

[mammalidentifier]

Hi there! This is a common degu (Octodon degus)! They’re South American rodents and related to animals like guinea pigs, capybaras and chinchillas, between others. I personally think they look a lot like their chinchilla cousins.

Degus were initially kept by humans for animal research purposes like rats and mice, but unlike most small rodents usually kept as pets, degus are fully diurnal and have very long lifespans, being able to live up to 13 years! This made them popular as pets in recent years. This cute little guy is a pet, I assume, due to the white patches in their coat. Wild degus are mostly brown:

Egg shaped

[danaiides]

Eli playing on our sofa <3