Ok today is April Fool's day, but the following is not a joke.
My roommate Yang told me about this, and wanted credits so here it is.
It seems that this has been going around Chinese forums for a while now. This unknown animal reached fame within a few weeks: The Grass-Mud Horse
This weird animal probably reached millions of Chinese Internet users because of its catchy name, pronounced in Mandarin. Cao Ne Ma
I'll let it speak for itself.
But let's look beyond this funny name.
The alpaca became a symbol for the revolution against information censorship. It is interesting how they chose to name the animal (it didn't need to be the alpaca.. it could have been almost anything, as long as it wasn't common, and it looked like a horse of some sort...). Every single word is extremely benign. Grass. Mud. Horse. Thus making filtering difficult for the authorities.
Anyways, who am I to talk about serious stuff.
Check out the alpaca page on wikipedia:
"""
Hygiene
To help alpacas control their internal parasites they have a communal dung pile, where they do not graze. Generally, males have much tidier, and fewer dung piles than females who tend to stand in a line and all go at once. One female approaches the dung pile and begins to urinate and/or defecate, and the rest of the herd often follows.
Because of their preference for using a dung pile, some alpacas have been successfully house-trained.
"""
Well.. it seems like girls going to the bathroom in groups, especially in restaurants, is an instinctive animal behavior.
Interesting.
$34.14
i hate going to bathrooms with people.
ReplyDeletehearing people pee isn't very entertaining. x]
but nice!