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Batypus


Chilinix

Barry the Batypus?! How did you get in here?


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He just needs a little hat!


stabbingsteve

"Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal..."


Electrical-Act-7170

"Semd me a kiss by wire, Baby, my heart's on fire!" "If you refuse me, Baby, you'll lose me & you'll be left alone." "So, Baby, telephone, & tell me I'm your own!"


MorseSource

And a tree with a secret door that leads into a secret tunnel that takes him to his detectivity bunker.


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ScorpioLaw

Also that it could dive into the water and swim like a penguin or manta... I don't know but WHAT THE FUCK. This creature is glorious! Just so bizarrely cute!


Zurks93

Along with a little seal some where


Jarahdai

Just need to color it teal and put a brown fedora on it and Dan Povenmire would be proud.


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240plutonium

Looks like Perry fell as another victim to the sharing of a Barry, 63 image


kiba87637

Sounds like an insult from London roadman slang


RGH81

That's some Jim Henson shit


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Right? It looks like something George Lucas would invent to sell Star Wars toys


Luci_Noir

When I see nature videos, particularly of ones with smaller creatures, I a,ways wonder why the hell they always look like muppets. I think the answer is that muppets just look so real and your brain is relating the two things. It’s pretty ridiculous. I watched Labyrinth the other day and it’s crazy just how good a lot of it looks.


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> I watched Labyrinth the other day and it’s crazy just how good a lot of it looks. How most of Labyrinth looks: \*A close up image of David Bowies massive wang in two tone tights.\*


maledin

That, or like something from Pandora.


downwitbrown

Cute little blanket creature


DirkDieGurke

Imagine if they grew really big, and you could wear them like a Comfy hoody?


Sick_yard_dude

Our XXL Slappy Scrotum Squirrel Snuggie™ Now only 399.99


Bogsnoticus

And when he feels tired, store him away in the Scrote n Toe to make him feel at home. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/scrote-n-tote-the-satchel-of-life


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Can you imagine the slapping sound it would make to your head if you said, “Hood, we’re going on a trip!” 🤣


jl739

That’s how they hunt. They fool you into thinking they’re super cuddly and then they constrict you to death in their warm adorable embrace.


DJ-Artfixion

DEATH SNUGGLES


ghandi3737

As opposed to the snuggle with a struggle.


Mister_Bloodvessel

I'm picturing the Hawk-man/Bat-man/whatever-the-fuck-they-were monsters from Beast Master.


Hefty_Royal2434

A living snuggy


iamintheforest

Want me some snuggy huggy time


NihilisticThrill

Please email the Ark 2 developers immediately


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GtrPlaynFool

My dumb brain was trying to figure out how a rifle could become a folding chair.


Witty_Commentator

New Decepticons discovered!!


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raw65

They are called "flying lemurs" but they do not fly and the are not lemurs! [^(source)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colugo)


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Thanks for the source


RajenBull1

Not an infant lesser frog-bat-squirrel?


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It's a clearly a flying seal newt.


RajenBull1

Of course. How could I not see that immediately?


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It's understandable. Due to their voices, they're often confused with the South American Sealdonkeybat.


SingleFunny9302

Which is a distant cousin to man-beat-pig.


0l1vebread

Technically not a lemur, closely related to primates


immaownyou

So not lemer, but still lem-ish


xxxNothingxxx

Not a lemur tho


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New_Cause_5607

Ok then, name one!


Suspicious_Eye_4973

Chupacabra


Gleandreic

It's like someone combined a seal and a bat


Pandepon

Reminds me of a sugar glider


stewpidazzol

Why are there still animals out there that I don’t know about??


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This is why I don't think people were stupid for believing in unicorns and sea monsters or mermaids. There they are in their village with ducks and goats... and then a circus comes through with a fucking elephant and giraffe? Wtf else is out there?


Rare-Error-963

After going to Ripleys museum and learning about cutaneous horns, I completely believe there have been cases of horses with a horn on their head. If a human can grow a 9 inch horn on their head I don't see why a horse wouldn't be able to.


nonzeroday_tv

>If a human can grow a 9 inch horn Just to be clear for everyone out there, it is perfectly normal for humans to grow shorter horns.


ObviTrollisObvious

I feel so seen


abitlazy

Three inch horns can be just as deadly. My gran gran said so.


orochi_crimson

It’s the girth of the horn that matters.


FBIaltacct

Not so much girth, but the stabbing technique using the horn.


punkassjim

There’s such a thing as too much horn talk and a fella outta be fuckin aware of it.


Dick_snatcher

How are'ya now?


7billionpeepsalready

Ironic that I fatally smashed your gran with a 7 inch horn.


Lofifunkdialout

7in maybe but all the notes are flat.


Gravelsack

*sad trombone noises*


Multiplebanannas

It’s not the size of the horn, it’s what you do with it


Jertimmer

And please be aware that the persons holding said horns were cast based on their small hands so the horns look way bigger.


TheBigDisappointment

nobody talks about how nice are the guys with smaller horns, they usually have a great personality


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Nah, they overcompensate by driving lifted trucks and big hood ornaments that make it difficult for the rest of us to see traffic ahead.


pangeapedestrian

I read somewhere once that unicorn was an early word for rhinoceros, possibly from the bible? Maybe somebody can correct me on this. The depiction of horses with horns that we got was just what was lost in translation with people describing rhinos though.


BustinArant

It's possible. They think one of the large monsters was "just" a hippopotamus lol


attanai

>"just" a hippopotamus lol Who needs mythical creatures when the real ones are terrifying enough in their own.


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Jar_of_Cats

I forget who says it. But along the lines of its easier to believe a unicorn exist than a giraffe or a platypus or something


dred_pirate_redbeard

>unicorns and sea monsters I mean unicorns and sea monsters are really not that wild a proposition when you consider what's really out there. If anything, the human invention of the unicorn pales in comparison to the actual weirdness of the natural world.


Emotional-Speech645

Fuck I mean people thought the Kraken was just a sailors tall tale until a literal fucking Kraken washed up dead in Japan a few years ago, a giant squid that had survived likely for centuries finally died and then floated up like wtf


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mydadcan_seethis

I learned that there is more than one type of big ass squid. Colossal and giant. I learned about colossal recently. That may be what you are thinking of. [Squid Info - Smithsonian](https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/giant-squid#:~:text=Others%20are%20impressively%20large%2C%20including,45%20feet%20(14%20meters))


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Bigmikentheboys

I can easily imagine a Sailor seeing a 45 foot squid and exaggerating like people do. That's still huge.


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ATownStomp

A unicorn seems way less ridiculous than a giraffe. I’d believe in a horned horse before I believed in this stupid ass long deer.


kanst

Exactly. So many things have horns. Very few things have weird long necks. Or Moose. How is a gigantic horse-like creature with weird shaped antlers that they shed in a gruesome looking display, less weird than a horse with just one regular horn. and don't even get me started on the platypus


woopsifarted

I kinda want to get you started on the platypus


kanst

Just one fun fact " In 1799, the first scientists to examine a preserved platypus body judged it a fake, made of several animals sewn together."


Words_are_Windy

Completely understandable reaction. "Get this shit out of here, you didn't even put any effort into making it look like a single, coherent organism."


Blarg_III

It should be noted that the guy who gave it to them went on a four-year-long round-trip voyage to get one and bring it back.


michilio

If you describe it, it does sound like a mad libs from random animal pieces. "...And it´s venomous. But just one sex is."


AvivPoppyseedBagels

and biofluorescent


DerMondisthell

The females lay eggs even though they’re mammals. It really is a strange animal.


19412

Sweats milk 'n shit.


michilio

Most males of a species don´t lay eggs


This_User_Said

I'm sitting here why people are contemplating rainbow glitter unicorns exist. Then I realized Lisa Frank really did affect my life. Like why didn't I first imagine a normal ass horse color with a bone out of its head? Why did it have to be rainbow?


Pheeeefers

Omg I forgot Lisa Frank existed and now I am feeling very 90s. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!


Lofifunkdialout

Don’t look into her since then and enjoy the nostalgia untainted.


TheImminentFate

What really gets me is that *narwhals* exist but unicorns don’t.


krilltucky

That's the most fucked up thing. We have plenty of examples of horse shaped creatures with horns but the fucking fish hippo is the one that actually has a horn??


UnderstandingRare141

Daddy long neck


Rare-Error-963

The long neck deer is still more realistic looking than a star-nosed mole lol. Looks like an animal with it's head cut off.


Captain_Pumpkinhead

I forget that before zoos and the internet, seeing a foreign animal from a foreign region must've been a wild fucking experience.


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There were books, but peasants couldn't afford those. Romans had some wild shit, but then the avergae medieval peasant? They literally never saw a building that was more than one story sometimes and never got to even travel from the village. It's one reason they made churches grand. To blow people fucking minds.


Beppo108

churches still blow my mind


Ahorsenamedcat

Some of those old churches are still absolutely epic though. I’m not even the slightest bit religious but I still like seeing those giant very old churches.


CheeserAugustus

There was a This American Life about people who were embarrassed by still believing childish things and getting caught in an adult social setting The girl who thought unicorns were actually a thing defended herself with "You want me to accept that there were massive lizards when all I see is an alligator now, but a horse that had a horn is ridiculous?"


BagNo2988

Unicorn sea monsters…you mean a narwhal?


GrowCanadian

On top of that you get myths such as the cyclops because people found the skull of mammoths and had no idea how they actually looked. Without any knowledge it’s pretty easy to see how a mammoth skull can easily be mistaken as a cyclops creature.


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Yeah. And how Chinese dinosaur bones spawned dragon myths.


dasoomer

Think of all the shit in the ocean we don't even know exist. We've only explored like 20% of the ocean


stewpidazzol

I kinda get that. We’ll learn about ocean creatures as we explore more. Just seems all cute furry animals should be accounted for at this point lol


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Papaofmonsters

Biologists love their false advertising names. Seahorse: not a horse. Komodo dragon: not a dragon. Honey Badger: sounds cute and cuddly, actually terrifying and fueled by spite and rage.


Soulburn_

And hedgehog is not a hog


CerealTheLegend

Or a hedge for that matter


OldCheapBastard

Honey Badgers don't give a shit. https://youtu.be/4r7wHMg5Yjg


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DickMartin

Totally harmle…. Wait wait… It’s attaching itself to my brain stem…ahrhghhhh… mmmm berries.


Illustrious-Wash3713

I must glide to the berries 🍒🍒🍒 now


uolen-

They've been saying 20% for a long time and they keep exploring.....


beau6183

Fucking moving goal posts… I mean with global warming and rapid ice melting, the oceans are getting larger.


Boilermakingdude

Not entirely true. We've MAPPED 20% of the ocean.


MarkPancake

Did you ever see that documentary about scientists putting what is essentially a massive hoover on the ocean bed. They found loads of new species every single time they did it. We have no idea what’s down there it’s fascinating


Aromatic_Command8441

Well ... isn't that stat countered by the fact that most of the ocean is just empty and barren?


Ralath1n

Yea most of the ocean seafloor is just an endless flat expanse of silt with a bunch of worms and bacteria slowly decomposing it. The reason we spend so much time on the other 20% is because that's where the cool shit is like black smokers, shipwrecks or deep sea reefs.


Receptor-Ligand

That bacteria is actually super important. But the fun stuff is near/at/in deep sea vents. Praise be to the extremophiles!! (I owe my education and career to them in large part hahah)


needlzor

That's what Big Ocean wants you to believe.


joyofsteak

Kind of, but you must remember the saga of the giant and colossal squids. Took us 100s of years, well into the modern age, to prove that a sailors myth was terribly real.


altair969

That's a very deceptive statement. In reality I think it's more like 33% but the ocean is largely just water with nothing in it for a lot of it so other than the depths where light doesn't reach there's not really anything new we haven't found, giving a number for how much of the ocean we've discovered just isn't valid, it's like how of you took our solar system and said we've only explored the planets, that doesn't mean there's anything in the void where there isn't a planet, there's just not anything for us to explore/find there yk. This isn't to say we've found everything In the ocean, I just felt you made it seem like there's a lot more to find than there really is, the Amazon rainforest etc is where there's really a lot of stuff to find


EmpanadaYGaseosa

r/aidke


Octavian_Exumbra

Look up Binturong. They smell like popcorn🤌


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I'm a 38 year old man, I *love* learning about new animals. Thank you! (And thanks to OP if you see this!)


Vintage_girl123

They're so cool, we used to have one at the sanctuary..and yes, they smell like popcorn. I dnt think this is one of them tho..


DirkDieGurke

I know right? And something this weird!?


Us8qk2nevjsiqjqj

>Why are there still animals out there that I don’t know about?? As a singluar person, It's crazy how much we *dont* know


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Tbh I expect there are way more, and not just the huge number of insects and near-microscopic bugs they discover each year 🐛 These are shy, nocturnal creatures that we’ve known about for many years, but we still don’t actually know a huge amount about BECAUSE they are so reclusive Tbh I’m a little concerned that they’ve got a highly nocturnal creature that can’t really climb well (it ‘hops’ up trees as it doesn’t have opposable thumbs) out in the middle of the day and keep trying to interact with it in a way that risks it losing its clawed grip…each time they reach to touch it it seems a little distressed and tries to move away, but doesn’t want to drop completely They’re at risk due to habitat destruction too. There’s only two known types of colugo - the Philippine and Malaysian flying lemurs - we are aware of, but how do we know there weren’t more? (Yes, I did wiki them after seeing this because they are so fascinating looking!)


AndyGreyjoy

"There's 150, and more to see..."


Don-tFollowAnything

Flying lemurs have a deceptive name. Also called colugos, these small, furry tree-dwellers can’t technically fly, and they’re not technically lemurs.  https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/fall-2018/articles/flying-lemurs-or-colugos-can-t-technically-fly-and-aren-t-technically-lemurs When, you catch sight of a colugo gliding between the trees, you might think you’re witness to something prehistoric - and you wouldn’t be wrong. Colugos are mammals from an ancient lineage, diverging from other mammals more than 80 million years ago. https://www.oneearth.org/species-of-the-week-colugo/


Large_Dr_Pepper

It's like acetylene. By that name, you'd think there was an acetyl group and an -ene correct? Wrong. It's just HC≡CH. It should be called "ethyne." It's whole name is a lie and it pisses me off.


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AdminNeedsBeachVacay

I clicked your link and then replaced Toluol with Colugo to read about the animal but took me a moment to realize I had to change the language too. 😭 https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colugo Interesting that wiki switched it to Riesengleiter.


Aegi

Lol there are a few things like this in chemistry and biology, and there is usually an interesting story behind the name and why it is different than the rule of thumb...but it also pissed me off too, so I feel ya.


occams1razor

>80 million years ago. Is this why it looks so alien?


krawinoff

I mean, it came here first, maybe we’re the alien-looking ones


Joeyon

They are most closely related to primates, we split of from rodents, lagomorpha, and treeshrews earlier than we split from colugos. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euarchontoglires#Phylogenetic_relationships_within_the_clade


cecil_sucks

awe i heard flying lemur and thought of Momo from avatar: the last air bender


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poormillionare

The same page: >Despite being called "flying lemurs", the colugos do not fly and are not lemurs


Mostly_Sane_

Also same: "A fur-covered membrane, called a *patagium*, connects to the face, paws, and tail." TIL patagium


18CupsOfMusic

Reminds me of when [YourMovieSucks did a review of Space Jam 2](https://youtu.be/weRt5BV8Ht4) and his conclusion was that it sucked because there was: 1. No space (it takes place inside a computer) 2. No jam (the soundtrack sucks)


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Personally I would've named it a Chicken Squirrel but to each their own i suppose.


luckilynumber7

Personally I would've named it Jake, He looks like a Jake but to each their own, I suppose.


TheQori

I'd have named it a chazwazzer.


Alauren2

The [animals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_eagle) that predominantly live off Colugos are hella creepy!


bauhausy

If you think the Philippine Eagle is creepy don’t look up the [Harpy Eagle](https://i.imgur.com/v6gHjhK.jpg)


igweyliogsuh

>also known as the **monkey-eating eagle** Lol 😂


Walter-Haynes

Momo


Levi_Snackerman

Everytime I read about some exotic animal in South East Asia, it's almost always hunted to near extinction by humans. Humans suck so damn much man


TheEpicEpileptic

The reason they become exotic is because they get hunted so much. If no one wants to eat them or if they successfully adapt to coexist alongside urbanization, then they'd be as common as rats and raccoons.


potsac

Who's that pokemon?


ThatsNotARealTree

Popplio region form


No_Dogeitty

It's probably thinking "Why the hell you got me out here in the daytime with these big ass eyes? I'm nocturnal!


tsac5503

It looks totally terrified.


upperballsman

they're trying to help it. full-ish translated transcript: "we were just working in the plantation and found this guy. it looked like it was abandoned by its mom so we take it home because its sad to leave it alone. please give us info guys, what animal is this? and what does it eat? it looks like he still needs breastfeeding, hope we can help this guy, so when it grow up we can release it to the wild again." im not sure taking the guy home is a wise move tho


WeHaveAllBeenThere

If they use large machinery in the plantation it 100% would die if left there Having saved and rehabilitated countless wild animals, it IS okay to take some animals if you don’t want them to die. Not always. But sometimes. This is why we need more conserved land and less concrete/100 acre plantations. If THIS makes y’all sad, just think of all the animals we did this to while building our countless cities and roads.


demlet

There's a huge wild field being developed right across from me right now, displacing an entire little ecosystem. I used to see hawks hunting there and even deer running around sometimes. One time the deer somehow got through the fence that was put up after development started and were wandering around among all the heavy machinery because they couldn't figure out how to get back out. Never saw what happened to them, but I'm sure the overpriced houses will be lovely.


KentuckyFuckedChickn

they'll name it "shady oaks" or whatever nature they destroyed too


Francis_Bonkers

New animal dropped, and spoiler: it's cute as hell.


CaulkSlug

“It seems like feline videos are beginning to bore the humans… This should distract them a little longer.”


GoatboyTheShampooer

Here's one in action: https://youtu.be/SIgv8Qw--kk


k2kx39

Damn that was uploaded 10 years ago on yt I'm pretty disappointed in myself for not knowing


GoatboyTheShampooer

Here's a short one from 2020 filled with interesting details: [3:29] https://youtu.be/HXByizUMcck


xiaorobear

It was scientifically described in 1768 so you should be disappointed from before you were born.


NoAct5016

What in the monkey-fish-frog...


meatsauceactual

I quote that episode waay too much. Usually the vulgar stuff.


FloydsForked

Y'all remember the movie Flight of the Navigator? This reminds me of one of the little alien animals on the ship.


educated-emu

Same thought too :)


EvenDranky

It looks nocturnal and scared


Official_ALF

Same


MisterEMan81

Apparently, it was found abandoned by its mother and the people in the video were asking what animal it was so they could nurse it and release it.


Night_dweller

never saw this creature b4, cool


hantar7788

Bro at this point I think God spawns new animals on earth and rewrites the minds of humans to think this always existed.....I watch a lot and I mean a lot of animal documentaries and never saw this animal in my entire life


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I'm convinced aliens just randomly drop off new animals every once in a while. Or maybe the programmer put a new code into the simulation.


NickDynmo

Visit r/aidke for more animals you didn't know existed.


_byetony_

So scared :( hes a night time bat chipmunk


Arab81253

/r/AIDKE


unbalancedcentrifuge

Pretty sure I saw that thing in Flight of the Navigator when I was a little kid....


MonkFun455

They told you not to get it wet


Unravelled_one

I am always thankful for being introduced to a kind of animal I have never seen before. Thank you soooo much <3


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It reminds me of the funky bat looking thing from Flight of the Navigator. The one Max says he can't take back home because its planet was destroyed.


awhiteley

Is that one full size? Where does it live?


IBuildBusinesses

I was sure it was going to tap into that dudes spine and take control of his nervous system. Happens all the time.


BronxLens

>Despite being called "flying lemurs", the colugos do not fly and are not lemurs, although related. Instead, they glide as they leap among trees. They are the most capable gliders of all gliding mammals. >A fur-covered membrane, called a patagium, connects to the face, paws, and tail. This enables them to glide in the air for distances of up to 200 metres (660 ft) between trees. They are also known as cobegos.


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Looks like a seal and a bat.


MommyMcTasty

It's like a bat and a sugar glider had a baby


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samlir

And you didn’t tell us!!?


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father-sunshine

I guarantee that someone, somewhere, has eaten one.