A shrike/grasshopper mouse gryphon would be a FEARSOME beast…if it was any bigger than a human hand. Still a terrifying creature, though.
A shrike/grasshopper mouse gryphon would be a FEARSOME beast…if it was any bigger than a human hand. Still a terrifying creature, though.
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Nature constrained this ferocious beast to human hand sized for the greater good. Any bigger and they’d destroy the world
Day 4?
Day 4 of Gryphon Week (Day 93 of Reader Questions)~
Except yesterday was day 2.
That’s why nemean lions keep them as pets. Hey, it’s biting my hand again! Cute little thing! Who’s a cutie, yes you are, you are!
Fun fact, grasshopper mice are the worst smelling animals I’ve ever handled. They made my field partner and I literally gag whenever one was in a trap (we were doing a mark/recapture study in Arizona). They beat out every weasel species I’ve worked with and even smelled worse than the stinkiest skunk. I’ve done necropsies on rotting critters that made me gag less.
I live in the Sonoran Desert, and yup, Grasshopper Mice are real things. I hear one of the local coyote communities waking up at sunset every night (first they howl, then they all yip, then they go silent and hunt), but if Grasshopper Mice were suddenly the size of coyotes I’d move to an island somewhere; they do not play around.
I had never heard of the Grasshopper Mouse. That’s one of the most interesting animals I’ve ever heard of. In a few million years of evolution they could evolve into whole new apex predator species.
They’re also called Werewolf mice , we have video of them just snatching bats out of the air!
When I see grasshoppers impaled on the barbed wire around here, I just tend to think that they must have been really REALLY depressed.
Okay I wanna play. Forgive me if this has been done already, but…. how about a tall boi! Secretary Bird and Giraffe! :D
An Ai-ai is freaky-looking as it is…but how would it do as a gryphon? (I don’t even know what bird it would pair well with ROFL)
….All I can think of is the Cucoo from Legend of Zelda because you’re talking about deadly birds up there….
!!! HAPPY MURDER PIN???