This guy is a Whatsit Wednesday if I ever saw one! What. IS. IT!? (My theory: Cyndaquil!)
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OMG It’s ADORABLE… totally squee!!!
is it a shrew? It reminds me of a shrew…
I’d guess at some sort of echidna / spiny anteater? Mammal, but only just…
yeah, murk. i–err– we have good reason to think so. but GEEZ at first i thought it was a bird… baby Kevins, anyone?
Looks like a baby echidna.
Actually, baby echindae have no quills yet and look rather like uncooked chicken breasts.
This is a tenrec. SQUEE!!
+2 interwebs for Kristen.
Yep. Its a streaked tenrec.
– and yes.. SQUEEE! 
Tenrec. Original photo is here. http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/2009/08/tenrecs_belong_in_saltwater_aq.php Looks like these guys come in several flavors of odd and cute.
Okay, now somebody should totally recolor this thing so it looks (more) like a Cyndaquil.
Looks facinating……
It looks a little like an echidna.
Wow, it’s a triceratops hedgehog. I thought they were extinct. 160,000,000 years ago they terrorized the entire planet. Of course they were a LOT bigger back then.
Looks like an echidna to me!
Is it a bably platypuss?
My first thought was Tenrec. I saw some in a petshop last year but they were WAY more expensive than I can afford. Pity though, because they apparently live longer than your average pet rodent; 8-10 years.
This is a short-beaked echidna hatchling. I saw one in person once.
Oh my squee! It’s a hybrid of a porchupine and a shrew!
Yes, it’s a streaked tenrec. Hey’re very cute, although their long spines near their heads can detach and stick into your flesh if they get mad and head butt you. I have had three species of tenrecs over the years: echinops telfairi, stiffer setoffs, and tenrec ecaudatus. My ecaudatus lived to be very old–at least 8. The others may be more like a hedgehog in longevity. A friend of mine used to keep these little streaked tennies. She said they only live two years at the most. There are actually over 30 species of tenrec that we know of. Super interesting animals. They actually are a lot like birds in that they have a cloaca instead of regular mammal orifices (like platypuses and echidnas). They are my favorite!
Gioia
Oops–darned iPad for typing. I meant setifer setosus. Auto correct typing doesn’t always know what it’s doing.
Gioia
definitely an achidna. for those new to the art of SQUEE, an achidna is pretty much a cross between a porcupine and a platypus… cept it doesnt have spines. just floof. :3
oops, didnt read Gioia’s comment… apparently, they do have spines. (note to self: DO NOT HUG AN ACHIDNA.)
its spelled echidna
Echidna or Tenrec……and very very cute….my niece had a stuffed toy echidna and carried it around for years…we always wanted a real one…
I think its a baby kiwi?
Something between a tenrec and a kiwi…
not cyndaquil, to small, to spikey
i think it is an echidna
nope my bad, sorry, it’s a lowland streaked tenrec
YEAH google!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^
It’s a baby echidna.
Incorrect: baby echidnae (or “puggles”) have no spines. They are soft and pink and look rather like uncooked chicken breasts.
it is a kiwi, i think
a kiwi is a bird google lowland streaked tenrec trust me it can’t be anything but that
It’s a pluck billed datypus.
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It looks like it has four legs… it might be a baby achindna (they’re a type of anteater.)
Definitely a lowland streaked tenrec. Coloration, spiky things, everything is exact. No doubt about it. That yellow and black coloration is very specific to this species.
Whatever it is it is SUPER SQUEEWORTHY and its habitat (wherever that iz) should be protected so we don’t lose such a SUPER SQUEEWORTHY species!
It’s a “Lowland Streaked Tenrec”……..native to Madigasgar ………