there's a rhinoceros running loose in my house!!

oh, i meant to say a rhinoceros beetle...

the kids found this really cool rhinoceros beetle at school the other day. so we took it home. apparently, rhinoceros beetles are proportionately the strongest animals in the world and are able to carry 850 times their own weight. i didn't know this before or i would have put the thing in a stronger container.

so in the middle of the night last night, this little beetle pried the lid off the tupperware container it was in (that had a book on top of it for goodness sake) and made its escape.

i'm expecting to come home tonight and find my furniture rearranged or something.