Quick, what’s this?
If you guessed “haystack” or “Beck album cover”, you’re wrong. It’s a dog. Specifically, the Kommondor, which I always thought resembled a sentient (mildly) shag carpet.
Amazingly, the Kommondor is one of the more mundane creatures featured on this list of “24 World’s Weirdest Animals”, though why they couldn’t have rounded up one and added the animal-weirdness-king platypus escapes me…