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The Indian Purple Frog (Original Post)
rug
Feb 2014
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South East Asia, Central and South American mammal. A sort of pig-like ungulate.
Enthusiast
Feb 2014
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petronius
(26,608 posts)1. Awesome! It's like a frog crossed with a vole crossed with a
salamander crossed with an armadillo. Maybe we can take up a collection, and Recursion can bring us one back to keep as a Lounge pet...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)2. I KNOW Naked Mole Rat is in there somewhere
petronius
(26,608 posts)3. You have a well-honed eye for taxonomy (I had to google the NMR)...
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)4. Chris Christie is looking sleazier by the minute
(sorry, Purple Frog)
GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)5. They are pretty damned cute!
They remind me a little bit of tapirs.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)6. Can you refresh my memory about tapirs? I don't re member.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)7. South East Asia, Central and South American mammal. A sort of pig-like ungulate.
Kind of like a small rhino without the horn, prehensile upper lips and nose create a short trunk.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)8. Now that you mention it, I seem to re member one named 'Jerry'
NYC_SKP told us more than we ever needed to know about him.
GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)9. Here you go...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)10. No, that's not the one
I think the one I saw came equipped with turn signals.
GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)11. I never knew there was a vehicle by that name.
I had to google it. They're kind of cute.