I had no idea! This close up, it’s hard to tell, but zoom out to see the ears, and sure enough, it’s RABBIT CENTRAL!
The Boston.com Big Picture is always worth a look and purveyor of interesting facts. Photo by Michaela Rehle.
Wait—there are Chinchilla Rabbits!?
December 21, 2010 By
They’re all fuzzy and cute though
May simply make the observation that the pictures in the blog are jarring, some of terrible events, and for animal lovers, pretty hard to take. Just sayin’. Just so ya know before ya go…
BUNNEH! (but beware, some of the Big Picture photos in the link are somewhat harsh)
But don’t miss the marmoset!
Marmoset marmoset!
“Chinchilla” is just a breed of rabbit, not a different species.
“Chinchillas are crepuscular rodents, slightly larger and more robust than ground squirrels, and are native to the Andes mountains in South America. Along with their relatives, viscachas, they comprise the family Chinchillidae.”
Oddly enough, a “chinchillidae” is also what I call my special chipotle ice cream with black bean sauce and a maraschino cherry.
OK, that’s what a chinchilla is, not a chinchilla rabbit. The chinchilla rabbit is just a breed of rabbit that’s similar in coloring to actual chinchillas.
Well, sure, and a chinchillidae is not a chipotle sundae. But a rose by any other name would smell as feet.
ummmm….wait….did….
Looks as though its Powers of Disapproval are intact.
Once again:
Cheeeeeeen-CHEEEEEEE-laaaaaaaaahhhh! (rabbit)
@ Theresa: is that from the “we don’ need no STANKIN’ badches” film??
Even at this young age, Behbeh Bunneh can disapprove a hoomin into a pile of smoldering ash.
I have a chinchilla rabbit. Its no different than any other rabbit, its color is just known as ‘chinchilla’ because its gray
Well I think we are getting into, what some would call, a grey area
ooooooooooooooo
There sure are. I had a chinchilla dwarf bunny as a kid. He was wonderful.
I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him. …
“…And I will love him, and hug him, and he will be my fuzzy…”
She’s almost as fuzzy as the dust bunnies under my bed.
I had that kind of rabbit, and named him Chinchilla…
Aw, he has the look of a wild Bun.
Eep, I click the link expecting chinchilla rabbits, and instead I get pictures of birds drowning in oil, injured people covered in blood, and piles of bodies. While interesting, a warning would have been nice.
hard to say if a warning would have been appropriate, but if the photos include this teeny bunbun, how bad could it be? maybe a link directly to the photo might have helped?
actually, what you get is a link to “a year in photos” from boston.com. some are gruesome, but none are out of the ordinary for mainstream magazines. the picture of “piles of bodies” actually has a warning and an option to see or skip the image.
love,
your cuteoverload ombundsman
They never post warnings for anything here, and it’s useless to ask. I wouldn’t be surprised if Meg posted the link with no context specifically in hopes of creating a commentroversy. The admins here seem to enjoy them.
you are wrong. my job as moderator is to keep commentroversies to a minimum. we’d get a lot more traffic if we allowed all the bs that shows up during these comment storms. the goal is to have fun, not to incite people.
Oh, I didn’t mean you as a moderator. I think you do the best you can. But I do think Meg and the other posters enjoy posting things that they know will get a rise out of people, based on past behavior over the years. Which of course, is their right; it’s their site, etc etc.
why would meg incite people to make comments, then hire a moderator to delete those comments? besides, there’s no way to predict what will incite people. trust me.
i’ve already turned down several requests to appear on “dirty jobs.”
@ Sharpy:
were these requests made
by Mike (Not the Other Mike) Rowe???
(giggle)
i think you’re pickin’ up what i’m puttin’ down!
I fail to see the humor.
You will not trick me like that again.
ummmmm…….
(having clicked on LS’s screenname….er….)
I want to see his nose twitch! Why isn’t his nose twitching?! Twitch nose, twitch!
*after typing the word “twitch” several times, it starts to look funny*
(giggle)
The word “twitch” looks funny? Or his nose looks funny?
(don’t answer that. It’s just a convenient one-liner…..
)
i think his nose smells funny.
in Bedrock! Twitch!Twitch!
Oh dear, I clicked on Chinchilla coats, thinking it would be about pet grooming
and found, quelle horror, they make coats out of chinchilla’s coats. How stupid
maybe we should have warned you.
A warning that the first picture is NOT the cute little bunny would have given us a chance to distract the kiddies (and people like me that think like kiddies).
In the instant case, it seems like the picture I found was identical to the one on the front page, so to my mind, a h/t and a warning would have been a lot less jarring.
And to the person that tried to somehow convict me on my blog’s contents, see if you can work out who I am for and who I am against, then work out which of those (one, another, both, neither) was responsible for whqt you saw in the pictures. For example, I am for the group that contains God, and I would say God is responsible for the bunny, the bunny’s cutness, and the twitch.
your powers of befuddlement are stunning. just think of this as a warning to potential responders.;)
There are several breeds of rabbit called chinchilla. However I was amazed by how much this pic looks like a real chin! Fooled me!