This is going to be one of the new items I will be featuring on Tuesdays. I will be showing the cutest ever animal and children videos from Youtube.com.
This is the first one, a little dormouse that was found in hibernation or "tapor" when the weather is cold and wet and food is very scarce. They will curl up into a little ball and sleep until the weather is warm again. This little guy was found snoring in a nesting box that conservationists left out. Dormice usually don't snore like this, hey make a little high pitched peeping noise. The person handling him is a licensened conservationist. This video was uploaded Dec. 21 2011.
This work 'Snoring Dormouse with sound - listen' is an adaption of 'SurreyWT: Snoring Dormouse' originally made available with a Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...) by the Surrey Wildlife Trust http://bit.ly/wP4Fak
Jeez, the poor little bugger sounds positively asthmatic! Makes me think of the sleeping dormouse in Alice in Wonderland at the Mad Hatter's tea party.
ReplyDeleteCute overload?
ReplyDeleteOMG - no wonder Beatrix Potter's characters were so cute! Who knew??
ReplyDeletePerhaps a small head cold? Wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI make the same noises when I sleep but no one classifies those as "cute." But this also leads me to believe we need to get the cute lil bugger a sleep apnea mask.
ReplyDeleteomg this is too cute. i guess his wife is sleeping in the other room?
ReplyDeleteAwwwww,,, this is too cute!! LOVE!!!
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