Chapter 5 Animal Handbook (1)
【agouti】
Agouti (Aguti)
Scientific name: Dasyprocta aguti
The agouti is a difficult animal to understand.
They always like to hug each other so tightly that the thorns on their bodies go deep into each other's bodies.
Others see it as a need for heating.
Until one day I was asked: Don't you feel hurt like this?
The agouti froze.They finally realized the harm they had done to each other.
Every agouti was so ashamed that it ran away in a panic.
So today agouti live alone.
Some agouti evoke distant memories only in some waking-to-forget dream.
Back then they had always thought pain was part of warmth.
【Volcano Rabbit】
Volcano Rabbit (Teporingo)
Scientific name: Romerogus diazi
Rounder than normal rabbit ears.
Volcano bunnies live on volcanoes.
Volcanic rabbits often dig very deep holes.Dig all the way to the heart of the volcano.
Few people know that the heart of a volcano is cold.
I've only seen volcano bunnies at zoos.
There are clumps of dry grass on the ground, separated from each other and not connected to each other.
There is a volcano bunny in each clump of grass.
Always alone, always with everyone.
I often think of the volcano bunny.
【Baby Hippopotamus】
Baby hippos only live where there are boxes.
One or more baby hippos can live in a box.
The bigger the box, the bigger the baby hippopotamus will grow.
Baby hippos only see when they are in the box.
Baby hippos can see different colors of darkness.
Living with baby hippos is usually someone who only talks and laughs out loud on paper.
Some people can sit for half a day with a baby hippo box on their lap.
Sometimes I suddenly feel that the baby hippo is far away from me, and my fingers clasp the box even tighter.
The sound of a baby hippo's breathing is indescribable.
A little bit like snow melting, like hair twisting and rubbing on fingers.
People with baby hippos easily recognize each other.
But most of them have no such opportunity.
You say: box.
If the person laughs when he hears this, he raises his eyebrows, trembles his fingers, turns his head around, pounces on him for a bear hug, bites, turns his head away, suddenly keeps quiet, and rattles his teeth. Run away like a rabbit, you know, this person must have, had his own baby hippopotamus.
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