Have you ever seen a harvest mouse covered in tulip pollen?

November 26, 2018 5:55 AM

No? Bored Panda can help you with that.
posted by bile and syntax (13 comments total)

This was the inspiration for Baudelaire‘s lesser known Le Fleurs du awww.
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:07 AM on November 26, 2018 [21 favorites]

I feel like I can see their noses wiggling.
posted by Emmy Rae at 7:13 AM on November 26, 2018 [4 favorites]

Le Fleurs du awww

That is the funniest thing I'll read all week.

A fine strong gentle mouse is prowling
As in his bedroom, in the tulips;
A lovely mouse, delicate, sweet, bepollened
He hardly bends the stalks

posted by Nelson at 8:11 AM on November 26, 2018 [7 favorites]

Suddenly Tiny Tim's voice is earworming me with "Tiptoe thru the tulips...", except raised an extra octave to achieve more of a mouse-like quality.
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:19 AM on November 26, 2018 [6 favorites]

Welp, my day just got better.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 8:23 AM on November 26, 2018 [1 favorite]

Does that whole "breeding program" statement make any kind of sense? They're breeding mice, handling them, getting them accustomed to interacting with people and then releasing them into the wild at a nature preserve. First, is that type of mouse an endangered species or something? If it's not, why would you be breeding them for release into the wild? Second, isn't the most common wisdom regarding breeding animals for release is that you limit their interactions with people as much as possible?
posted by sardonyx at 8:31 AM on November 26, 2018 [4 favorites]

Hi Sardonx, I agree with you. These images remind me of those *cute* photos of the frogs who are holding umbrellas and such that have actually been super glued into those positions and after the photo op left to die.
posted by nanook at 9:54 AM on November 26, 2018 [6 favorites]

I never knew about the dwergmuis.
After 16 days the young are chased away by the mother who's pregnant again. After two months the young are ready to have children themselves. On average they live 6 months.

They really live life at super speed.
Those tiny animals. Makes me feel for them.
posted by jouke at 10:29 AM on November 26, 2018

Nanook, that is terrible. Every time I think humans have sunk to the bottom, I find another level of awfulness.
posted by twilightlost at 10:30 AM on November 26, 2018 [2 favorites]

The fact that these are staged shots with captive mice in a studio does make this whole thing way less cool. I didn't see the "more text" link the first time. The fact that the mice are released into the wild rather than cared for to the end of their natural lives is problematic. It's not as bad as super-gluing frogs, but it's still pretty crap.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 11:18 AM on November 26, 2018

Quite the cute mouse infestation.
posted by BlueHorse at 12:02 PM on November 26, 2018

Like the Anne Geddes baby photos, this creeps me right the fuck out.
posted by aspersioncast at 2:26 PM on November 26, 2018 [1 favorite]

Welp, I never considered that flower arrangements might harbor mouse pee before. Something to think about the next time I smell the roses, I guess.
posted by MrVisible at 8:13 PM on November 26, 2018 [1 favorite]