This is a whiskered auklet. It's nocturnal and lives on rocky islands in the north Pacific. Scientists have recently shown that they use their whisker feathers like cat whiskers to navigate their rocky burrows in the dark.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Cute furry (?) thing of the day =)
So... I guess it's more feathered than furry, but it's soft and petable and cute, so I'm still calling it furry.
This is a whiskered auklet. It's nocturnal and lives on rocky islands in the north Pacific. Scientists have recently shown that they use their whisker feathers like cat whiskers to navigate their rocky burrows in the dark.
This is a whiskered auklet. It's nocturnal and lives on rocky islands in the north Pacific. Scientists have recently shown that they use their whisker feathers like cat whiskers to navigate their rocky burrows in the dark.
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Ummm, I vote we delete the spam comment above.
I love the whiskers on this thing! Look so refined.
I'd pet it. Totally.
I would cautiously step away from that strange uhmm thing. Unless its for sure a bird, in which case Id pet it.
I think its a bird, but I would still caution against petting it, god knows what sort of sick twisted powers this creature has!
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