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My rat calendars for 2027 are out! Like last year there are 2 different kinds of calendars, a food rats one and a paw painting one. Due to how my printing company handles things I have had to make 2 different listings for each calendar - one is for people in the US/Canada, and one is for anywhere else worldwide.

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If you are in the US/Canada you can find the food rats calendar here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4558382899/2027-food-rats-calendar-us-canada

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And you can find the US/Canada painting calendars here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4558380197/2027-rat-painting-calendar-us-canada

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If you're outside the US/Canada, you can find the international version of the food rats calendar here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4558382547/rat-calendar-2027-eu-rest-of-world

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And you can find the international version of the painting calendar here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4558385185/2027-rat-painting-calendar-eu-worldwide

Lucky’s cage deep clean and redo is officially done + lucky sleeping in the temp setup while I cleaned!

My husband just filmed this and we had so much fun watching this little guy or a girl. The soil is cool and moist because I just watered the plants and I bet it feels great on their fur and helps maybe to get rid of some fleas.

So i decided to build a nice custom wooden house and playzone for this squirrel that visits my backyard every single day. It all started when I saw it used to visit my backyard and play around there, that's when I started putting out some dry nuts for it to eat. Added a water bowl, and then due to the extreme heat and changing weather, I finally decided it was time to give my little friend it's first home.

Still open to naming it. The house is still a work in progress, open for suggestions and ideas. I'm thinking about adding a ladder to the opening with steps, or maybe a slide.

Does this resemble mouse droppings? Discovered in a cabinet I was cleaning.

In order to understand the world from their perspective, it's important to try to comprehend how these animals make use of their sensory capacity to perceive and navigate the world. Some people say you need to be a scientist to understand the emotions of animals, and their behavior. But in reality, you need someone who is very sensitive, intelligent, and spends a great amount of time in the company of a particular species, all day, every day, observing their behaviors and relationships.

You need to devote yourself over a long period of time to get to know the animals as individuals in order to understand their behavior and what it means, and to understand their relationships and how they communicate with each other. Each capybara is an individual whose life is important to him and each capybara has his own personality.

Capybaras often spend a long time thinking before deciding on a course of action. They'll sit completely still without moving for a long time before making a move. They don't just sit because they aren't thinking of anything, in fact, the exact opposite is happening. They make calculated decisions based on their instincts and their gathered information from their surroundings.

Capybaras have amazing emotional and olfactory intelligence and these two also strongly depend on one another. Assessing emotions in capybaras is strongly connected with their sense of smell. They even know if a female is pregnant just by smelling each other. Stress is picked up by capybaras and many other animals through their sense of smell. Being social doesn't mean they love to hang out with other species or humans. As prey animals, their strong bonding is highly prioritized to be with each other and to feel the safety of their herd. Because of this, capybaras need to be attuned to sophisticated social signals from others so they can identify friends and cooperate with and enemies to avoid.

Capybaras are much more than just "CUTE" and they are so much more interesting when you know who they really are, when you become familiar with their personality, behavior and know what their relationships are with other capybaras in their herd. They aren't just 'the capybaras' but each one of them are individuals and have a different personality.

If you could quietly observe one capybara herd for an entire day or week, whether you are in a zoo or an urban park in Brazil, what would you most want to learn about them?

Image credit:

yongestation

tpananth

CapyTube (Capybara Of The Day) used with permission.

Resource:

Community Wiki -> Primary Information Sources -> Section 4.