Enjoy the nightmares, folks.
Enjoy the nightmares, folks. Although, according to the WaPo article, rats in the Solomons like to tickle children, not bite them. Also, add Apocryphal Rats to the list of potential band names.
In the isolated Solomon Islands, mothers and fathers have been known to sing to their children of apocryphal rats.
In one rhyme, Kamare and Isuku go scurrying up a child, one rat on each side. They climb the ribs and reach the armpits, where the singer finally tickles the child.
Isuku, as the song goes, is what your average New Yorker might consider a fairly normal-size rat.
But Kamare, the children are told, is big.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/new-giant-rat-species-solomon-islands-vangunu/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/09/27/good-news-scientists-have-discovered-a-new-species-of-giant-rat/?utm_term=.e3975163c6c3
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/new-giant-rat-species-solomon-islands-vangunu/
In the isolated Solomon Islands, mothers and fathers have been known to sing to their children of apocryphal rats.
In one rhyme, Kamare and Isuku go scurrying up a child, one rat on each side. They climb the ribs and reach the armpits, where the singer finally tickles the child.
Isuku, as the song goes, is what your average New Yorker might consider a fairly normal-size rat.
But Kamare, the children are told, is big.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/new-giant-rat-species-solomon-islands-vangunu/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/09/27/good-news-scientists-have-discovered-a-new-species-of-giant-rat/?utm_term=.e3975163c6c3
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/new-giant-rat-species-solomon-islands-vangunu/
And of course no one believed the islanders until one came out of the sky. rolls eyes
ReplyDeleteThough I definitely don't want one of these falling on me.
I mean, obviously some of the researchers did, they have just become so rare they were hard to find. Maybe this will help to stop the logging?
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