Selamat siang semua.
Geram betul aku dengan si monyet ni. Tadi dia tengah makan, then bila aku datang, dia berenti makan, buat muka terkejut, then cepat-cepat lari masuk rumah. Dalam rumah sambung makan. Dengar bunyi krup-krup. Bila angkat, mula buat muka marah. Sikit-sikit touching. Rasa nak cubit-cubit!
Perosak bantal. Kalau korang tengok dia buat benda pelik-pelik, tu nama dia self annointing. Kalau tak tau self annointing tu, meh aku ajar sikit.
Self-annointing is a distinctly hedgehoggy behavior. When a hedgehog encounters a new smell in the environment, it often reacts by licking or chewing on the source of the smell, frothing up a lather in the mouth, then making the most amazing contortions to spread the lather on the forequills, back, etc...! No one is completely sure why hedgehogs do this. Some theorize that it allows them to blend their scent with the environment, thus helping to hide from predators. However, this doesn't necessarily make sense if you consider that it's usually unusual smells that they annoint with. Some say that they do it to spread potential poisons on the quills, to make themselves more toxic to predators. There's some published lab research that showed that hedgies given toxic marine toads to annoint with went for the poison gland and annointed with the toxins (they do have a remarkable tolerance for neurotoxins), but most things in their environment aren't toxic. Certainly, marine toads aren't part of their natural environment! A third theory suggests that new scents overload the scent receptors and they annoint to clear the neurons. Hmm. That sounds weird, too.
Joni ni kalau ada benda bau pelik-pelik, mesti dia buat self annointing.
Aku nak belikan dia baju raya la. Raya pertama bersama.
