I really don't have much to say about this picture. It's a mouse or a rat on a surfboard. I went back and read the associated article, but I am no more inspired.
A man seems to have taught some rodents to surf. They seem to enjoy it. It's really cute. They're not just standing terrified on a surfboard, they're actively surfing and they're doing a pretty good job.
It amazes me that people have the kind of time and energy required to do this kind of thing. Also in the article was a bit about a man who has a lot of trained lizards he can pose for photographs, and a bit about a dog who can read numbers and do math.
That last one was the most amazing and the least likely to be true. He can apparently add, subtract, multiply, and divide; he can do math problems that are written down, he can do math problems posed to him in different languages.
I love dogs and I really want to believe that this amazing dog is really doing all of that but everything I've learned about dog brains thus far has led me to believe that this is all impossible.
But I kind of believe it anyway, because I want to.
I find it hard to believe that a dog could do more than rehearsed\memorized mathematics as well, but if not Hey that's pretty cool.
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