***Official Weird Animal Thread***

[fyodor]

These pigs are supposed to be the same size ~1050 lbs.
How come the first one looks to be at so much bigger? Look at the little kid standing behind CornDog in the 2nd photo compared to the killer kid in the first photo.

[Sniper]

fyodor, you want to put that thing on a scale to weigh it?

[Sniper]

[fyodor]

They have both been weighed. That's the thing. The wild pig is supposed to be 1051 lbs. (possibly 1060). The one at the fair is 1040 lbs. They both consist entirely of pig meat and bones so they should look to be about the same mass. However the wild pig looks more than twice the size of the tame pig from these photos - maybe as much as four times bigger.

[Sniper]

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They have both been weighed. That's the thing. The wild pig is supposed to be 1051 lbs. (possibly 1060). The one at the fair is 1040 lbs. They both consist entirely of pig meat and bones so they should look to be about the same mass. However the wild pig looks more than twice the size of the tame pig from these photos - maybe as much as four times bigger.

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Its an optical ilusion created by the camera [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[cboevey]

Talking about big rats - down here in South Africa we have cane rats
Getting to be the size of a small dog, these critters make good pets and can be trained extremely easily (they do anything for food). In Mozambique they use them to find buried landmines left over from the civil war. Eaten a few in my time - quite tasty too (sorry Katy).

Weirdest African creature that I can think of in short notice is the aardvark.

[inlemur]

Went to the zoo last weekend. I nominate the mouse deer:


And the tapir:

[Blarg]

That mouse deer is really weird.

[Blarg]

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I always thought Aye Aye's were pretty weird


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What the hell is that?

[Five-Star]

Winner: The Platypus