It’s true! My brother just sent me a link to a story about this dude:

(S)he is a Japanese Giant Salamander. Here’s the link, which is to a post on Boing Boing with a video. Like my brother Jack says, “Slightly annoying video. Lovely beastie though!”

Watch out for some heartbreaking night footage of a salamander trying to climb against the outflow of a dam – then cheer, as special underwater stair and slope arrangements are installed to help!

Thanks, Jack! What a sterling example of human kindness to monsters. Humans really can be quite nice to monsters sometimes, can’t they? So: wouldn’t it be great if certain monsters were sometimes a bit kinder to certain human authors, especially towards… oh, say, the ones they’re still holding hostage in this cave?

Hint, monster jailers! HINT!

Sigh.

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