My OperaTwo Creatures that Look Like Disney Cartoons
Friday, September 6, 2013 9:42:33 PM
I like travelling to extremely remote corners of the earth. On two separate trips last year, I saw two little creatures which were cartoon-like. I would like the world to know that they exist -
1. The mudskipper --While I was having my lunch at a riverside restaurant built with wooden planks atop a swamp created by a stream that branched out from the Sarawak River in east Malaysia, I saw dozens of fish literally walking and hopping around on the mud of the swamp. Those little fish crawled around on their fins. My lunch took more than an hour but it I did not see any one of those little creatures go back into the water to breathe. That was the only type of fish I saw that could literally walk on the ground.
2. Mickey Mouse -- Most of us should have seen what Mickey Mouse looks like from Disney cartoons. While having a late night excursion at the sand dunes of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia not far from the Chinese border, I was taken by my guide to an Altai hill slope where he told me that...just a few days before... a very cute mouse had been reportedly sighted by two Australian tourists at or around that place. After a long wait lasting for up to two hours, I indeed saw one small mouse-like creature crawl out from somwhere
... just a few yards away from where I squatted at the desert sand.
I tiptoed slightly forward and intended to photograph it, but it had such sensitive antenna-like ears that my footsteps unfortunately disturbed it...it then suddenly jumped way up into the air to a height that reached my head and then it vanished with lightning speed to nowhere. As I am nearly 6'6" with boots on, that little creature must be a great Olympic-class jumper for its size.
Attached to this post are the Google file pictures of those two most interesting creatures.
1. The mudskipper --While I was having my lunch at a riverside restaurant built with wooden planks atop a swamp created by a stream that branched out from the Sarawak River in east Malaysia, I saw dozens of fish literally walking and hopping around on the mud of the swamp. Those little fish crawled around on their fins. My lunch took more than an hour but it I did not see any one of those little creatures go back into the water to breathe. That was the only type of fish I saw that could literally walk on the ground.
2. Mickey Mouse -- Most of us should have seen what Mickey Mouse looks like from Disney cartoons. While having a late night excursion at the sand dunes of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia not far from the Chinese border, I was taken by my guide to an Altai hill slope where he told me that...just a few days before... a very cute mouse had been reportedly sighted by two Australian tourists at or around that place. After a long wait lasting for up to two hours, I indeed saw one small mouse-like creature crawl out from somwhere
... just a few yards away from where I squatted at the desert sand.I tiptoed slightly forward and intended to photograph it, but it had such sensitive antenna-like ears that my footsteps unfortunately disturbed it...it then suddenly jumped way up into the air to a height that reached my head and then it vanished with lightning speed to nowhere. As I am nearly 6'6" with boots on, that little creature must be a great Olympic-class jumper for its size.
Attached to this post are the Google file pictures of those two most interesting creatures.
