stridulating mammal of the day

October 25, 2022 6:14 PM

stridulating mammal of the day (15 second imgur video)

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posted by aniola (21 comments total)

What cute little spiney bois
posted by Windopaene at 6:18 PM on October 25, 2022 [6 favorites]

Are we certain these are mammals and not punk ducklings?
posted by aubilenon at 6:19 PM on October 25, 2022 [9 favorites]

TENREC is a classic scrabble word designed to fool your opponent into thinking you played a disallowed word.... anagrammed by the more common CENTER, CENTRE, RECENT

TENREC is also cute as fuck
posted by lalochezia at 6:36 PM on October 25, 2022 [5 favorites]

WHAT THAT IS AMAZING THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME THIS
posted by tiny frying pan at 6:38 PM on October 25, 2022 [5 favorites]

WARMOUSE!
posted by KingEdRa at 6:39 PM on October 25, 2022 [10 favorites]

Does this naming have a link to the ajective strident? Is strident sharp, piercing? I think so.
posted by Oyéah at 6:43 PM on October 25, 2022 [1 favorite]

Can't wait for tomorrow's update.
posted by Dag Maggot at 6:44 PM on October 25, 2022

Can't wait for tomorrow's update.

This is the end of the series. There's no more stridulating mammals in the known universe.
posted by aniola at 7:24 PM on October 25, 2022 [4 favorites]

There's no more stridulating mammals in the known universe.

There are no more known stridulating mammals in the known universe, but there may be unknown stridulating mammals in the known universe. And, of course, we cannot neglect the unknown stridulating mammals in the unknown universe.
posted by clawsoon at 8:00 PM on October 25, 2022 [10 favorites]

However, there are no known stridulating mammals in the unknown universe. That we know of.
posted by aubilenon at 8:51 PM on October 25, 2022 [4 favorites]

Wait what if there's a mammal we know but we don't know it stridulates. Like cats do that but we just didn't notice.
posted by aubilenon at 8:52 PM on October 25, 2022 [5 favorites]

Like the ultrasonic laughter of rats (50 kHz !), for example.
posted by jamjam at 9:02 PM on October 25, 2022 [3 favorites]

I would not put it past cats to stridulate and have stridulating organs, but only when humans aren't present. I mean, think of the whiskers.
posted by aniola at 9:04 PM on October 25, 2022 [2 favorites]

Next on "Pokémon or Real Animal?"... Nudibranch!
posted by not_on_display at 9:13 PM on October 25, 2022 [1 favorite]

A morse-code mammal for metafilter. Finally.
.. / .... .- ...- . / -. --- / .. -.. . .- / .... --- .-- / - .... . ... . / .--. . --- .--. .-.. . / --. --- - / - .... . .. .-. / -.-. .- - ... / .-- . -.. --. . -.. / .. -. - --- / - .... . .. .-. / ... -.-. .- -. -. . .-. ... --..-- / --- .-. / .-- .... -.-- .-.-.-
posted by Thella at 10:46 PM on October 25, 2022

wild kratts' tenrec treasure hunt :P
posted by kliuless at 1:32 AM on October 26, 2022

see ya later, stridulator
posted by scruss at 3:29 AM on October 26, 2022 [8 favorites]

There's no more stridulating mammals in the known universe.

Well, there was at least one other: Gilbert Gottfried (WP, YT), may he Rest In Peace.
posted by cenoxo at 6:30 AM on October 26, 2022

Aww, adorbz lil clicker rat! Also stampy features. Everything I ever needed.
posted by winesong at 8:50 AM on October 26, 2022

Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, both, fine totem anima symbols.
posted by Oyéah at 1:04 PM on October 26, 2022

Grover Cleveland stridulated on two nonconsecutive occasions.
posted by neuron at 5:53 PM on October 27, 2022