The pygmy jerboa has been tearing up the internet this week. It's captured the hearts and blogs of influential sites like Cute Overload, BuzzFeed, and Andrew Sullivan's blog. That's a lot of press for a tiny desert rodent that looks like an adorable hamster face sitting on a pair of bird legs. Oh wait, no it's not. This is the internet. The only real mystery is why we didn't know about the pygmy jerboa sooner.
We've also included a few other cute, strange animals for your enjoyment. If you can think of any other animals that deserve 15 minutes of internet fame, please leave us some suggestions in the comments.
- The red-ruffed lemur has a poodle head and an orangutan body. It is also insane.
- Sand Cats! They look like house cats but they're adapted to life in the desert.
- The prehensile-tailed porcupine is like a regular porcupine, but with a tail.
- Here's a video of the ultra-rare garden cattail.
comments
Looks like a cats tale..
by:// Stephy - May 28th 2009
THIS CREATURE SHOULD BE KILLED IMMEDIATLY
Look at its big mouth. It looks like an embyo and could be much bigger when an adult. It probabally breeds in the millions and it eats everything in site. Kill it now.
by:// Kill All Creatures - May 28th 2009
Looks like a tribble -with a face and ears and arms and legs and whiskers. Other than all that it looks like a tribble, from the original Star Trek series.
by:// Steven - May 28th 2009
whow,,
no way.. unpleasant comments i must say..
anyways cute jerboa, it's my first time seeing that cute animal
by:// zhi - May 29th 2009
Have any of you guys noticed how fake these things are?
by:// emily - May 29th 2009
Oh wow! These little critters are SO cute. I want to give Hef one of these for his birthday! The jerboa is my favorite because it reminds me of all my fluffy and soft stuffed animals :)
by:// Bunny_Holly - May 29th 2009
Have you ever seen a springhare? Jack Hanna brought one onto the Letterman show and I swear I've hardly seen anything cuter than that. It reminds me of pikachu...
by:// politicat - May 29th 2009
the joboa is a real animal folks...look it up.its from Arabia or somewhere like that.
by:// jeff - May 29th 2009
Thanks politicat. I think it deserves a post.
by:// Jordan Breindel - May 29th 2009
this animal is a sign from god and it should be preserved
by:// chris - May 29th 2009
I like that Chris. What's it a sign of?
by:// Jordan Breindel - May 29th 2009
My responses to these:
Pygmy Jerboa: No way that that can be fake.
Red Ruffed Lemur: Not fake.
Sand cats: Fake. You can tell because you see the cat's (huge) shadow off in the distance of the desert wallpaper.
Prehensile Tailed Procupine: Not fake.
Garden Cattail: Clearly fake. You can see the cat's butt, so it's fake.
by:// Meganew - May 29th 2009
Looks like an Arizona desert Kangaroo Rat to me.
by:// Candice - May 29th 2009
You now know what I woke up next during the drug crazed days of the late 60's. They looked much better at 1:30am. Tim Leary you lied!-LOL
by:// Butch - May 29th 2009
it's the missing link between bird and mammal
by:// george - May 29th 2009
the video about the ultra rare cattail is so fake cuz fisrt u can its a cats tail and second it says it in the name of the vid!!! ultra rare CATTAIL!?!?!?!
by:// fakesters98 - May 29th 2009
FYI Meganew, sand cats (Felis margarita) are real. This was filmed in a zoo like the title of the video says and since there isn't a desert in the middle of the Bronx, of course the background is artificial. Plus, I doubt wild sand cats have red lights or automatic slidding doors in their burrows ;)
by:// ashls28 - May 30th 2009
It's a Gerbil, with hair missing from it's legs. I used to have one when I was a kid, but I didn't mistreat him like this one seems to be with the guy letting it fall off of things and sticking sticks in it's face.
by:// Mark - May 30th 2009
What the heck!!! This video is stupid it makes me wana jump of from a moving car thats going 145 mph.. OK im been a little dramatic but yea this video is so fake
by:// Glory - May 30th 2009
Love the cat tail with the eye stickers, funny stuff
by:// unsuitened - May 30th 2009