A Boar In The Brandy

Banana Pepper, my high yellow male Chironius, out for some sun today. In the indoor pic he's bowing his neck down at me and inflating it. Such a cool defensive display!

a friend is showing me Legend of Dragoon and honestly I'm liking it quite a bit so far. Dart is very "heart of gold, dumb of ass" and I'm fonder of him than I thought I'd be.

Despite its name, the owlbear is in fact neither owl nor bear - it is a large species of rodent whose external incisors resemble a curved "beak." The enamel of these incisors is colored brown because of iron compounds. This hard substance wears down at a slower rate than the regular tooth, thus producing a sharp edge at the tooth tip.

It is thought that owlbears are evolved from smaller burrowing rodents who made use of their external teeth as digging implements. Their ancestors lacked external pinnae, but the modern owlbear's fur grows in an owl-like facial disk to direct sound -- a case of convergent evolution.