Re: OT: Like bull's-eyeing womp rats back home

On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:44:23 -0700, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

In article <slrn105r1ud.1fcc.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>

On 2025-06-26, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
 

One of my great regrets is that we never got to see a womp rat in the
movies.

 
"They're not much bigger than two meters."

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I wonder if they look like Capybaras, see
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara>

Having recently seen two films (on DVD), each of which describes a
particular dog as "a hairy rat", I do not rely on "rat" here as
indicating what Science would have called it.

After all, as a long-ago article in /Smithsonian/ pointed out, people
call koalas "bears" even though their only relationship to bears is
their resemblance to, as the article put it, "bears of genus 'Teddy'".

Popular names and reality don't always match up.

Which is why I wish Lucas had shown us one.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"