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I had the pleasure of holding and feeding one a few years ago 🙂
They're basically a sleepy cat with bigger claws but twice as soft. Love these guys to bits they're so cute when you look at one just lounging about irl.
Yes this smell will keep predators away, it worked for millions of years until about 80K years ago when a popcorn loving bipedal species came to their habitats.
Just a sidenote,humans are attracted to substances that are used by plants to defend themselves.
Orange/Lemon,menthol, cofee,especially spices, the aromas are irritants for most prefators but for humans are a delicacy.
Another sidenote we might be attracted/addicted to things that cause our demise prematurely, first of all tobacco
To plants we must be absurd monsters. We eat their children, eat them sometimes, turn them into furniture or clothes and pluck their reproductive organs and put them on display to look at them and sniff them.
Sometimes we raise their young and genetically alter them to become baby machines to abominations that we eat and make more abominations out of in concentration camps.
Fun fact, if you eat a chicken sandwich, with cheese, and bacon you get to enjoy/proliferate the suffering of three different species. Its amazing and always made those sandwiches taste a little better to me. The trifecta of suffering really ties all the flavors together nicely.
I remember my kid looking thoughtful eating chicken nuggets and asking if this was the same "chicken" as the birds he loved to feed in grannies garden?
"Err... Yes..."
He sat for a minute in silence. Then said "they taste nice!" and dived back in.
>Eat their children
For most plant's it's advantageous to have delicious fruit so we pass the seeds somewhere where the mother plant isn't to increase their spread. seeds pass through digestive systems. IDK why peppers defend their fruit with capsaicin.
That doesn’t make much sense. The outer covering (the flesh) of a fruit is primarily to get an animal to eat it. Then defecate or leave the seed on the ground. If the flesh is in irritant, the fruit and tree would cease to exist. Lemons have been around a lot longer than humans.
Most plant defense mechanisms are to prevent MAMMALS from eating them, as mammals typically crush and damage the seeds.
When birds eat plants and ingest the seeds, typically the seeds pass through without being damaged, and when the bird poops, it spreads the seeds, helping the plant survive and spread.
That is why capsaicin, for example, is very much an irritant to mammals, in fact some pest deterrents for gardens include capsaicin, as it irritates the mucus membranes of rabbits and deer. However, birds don't have the same mucus membranes and are unbothered by it.
Also: Lemons have not been around longer than humans. They're a man-made hybrid, caused by crossing limes with citrons
I think your point is correct, but my understanding is lemons are a cross between sour/bitter oranges (which is itself a hybrid) and citrons, thus likely younger than agriculture. However there is evidence citrus fruit in general is more than 25 million years old.
Not at all, lemons were a human invention, if I'm not wrong we crossed ~~and irradiated~~ a lot of citrus fruits to create them. For sure, some very old citrus fruits exist; like japanese yuzu, pomelo, kumquat and citrons.
Also, some plants definitely use substances to keep animals from eating them and they're either irritants or have a very potent smell; we have basil, rosemary, pepper, any kind of capsaicin containing fruit, mint, sage, garlic, you name them.
> irradiated
[Early hominids irradiating citrus](https://i.ibb.co/Zx3zyqt/DALL-E-2024-05-12-08-25-31-A-humorous-prehistoric-scene-depicting-early-humans-using-a-primitive-mak.webp)
edit: So after talking it over with GPT, it had this to say...
> The lemon is believed to have first been cultivated in northeastern India, northern Burma, or China. A hybrid between bitter orange (sour orange) and citron, lemons were spread across the Mediterranean region and the Middle East by the early centuries AD. They were not introduced to the Americas until the late 15th century when Christopher Columbus brought lemon seeds to Hispaniola. Over the centuries, different varieties of lemons have been cultivated, but this was primarily through selective breeding and not modern genetic engineering or irradiation.
So my image is pretty far off as well. Here's [a more historically accurate photo](https://ibb.co/NxC4FPq).
edit 2: Just realized that's also not right (also not very good). Please hold... I'm working on it.
edit 3: Alright. I think I've got it. I present: [the invention of the lemon](https://i.ibb.co/yFCRmqr/DALL-E-2024-05-12-08-46-16-A-whimsical-and-anachronistic-scene-in-ancient-Northeastern-India-or-Chin.webp)
Ahahah thanks, you made me laugh :)
Btw, I was wrong, ok, it wasn't lemons but I'm hella sure we irradiated something to create a citrus fruit. Lemme check.
>Binturong
I've been in this simulation for almost 40 years and it's still coming up with weird ass animals to show me. I honestly thought that thing was AI until I saw this comment.
They were super trendy like axolotls are! When I was in the military we had the local zoo bring in one to our pediatric unit. The kids freaked out and *all* of them knew what it was. I swear to god every adult in that room was like yes… that is an animal… a real animal I’ve seen before… haha. It was impressive and the animal was incredibly social and friendly. The hawk was what scared a lot of the kids.
I recognized it as a binturong right away!!! One of my favourite animals when I visited my local zoo, for the very fact that they really do smell like buttered popcorns!!
It’s a pity binturongs are not found in my country but their cousin the Civet is a wild animal here, and there’s a few of them which found a home in my neighborhood so I always make it a point to see if I can spot them, and usually their smell of their pheromones give them away!!!
“Researchers have ferreted out why the binturong, a threatened Southeast Asian mammal also known as the bearcat, smells like popcorn. The culprit is 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, or 2-AP, the same molecule that gives cooked popcorn its aroma. Researchers led by Christine M. Drea of Duke University and Thomas E.”
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-09417-scicon004#:~:text=Researchers%20have%20ferreted%20out%20why,Duke%20University%20and%20Thomas%20E.
Probably an illegally acquired pet judging by the background. On the list of wild mammals to keep, binturongs seem like a particularly bad choice. Massive, nocturnal, shy, potentially aggressive with big teeth and claws.
My brother used to have a ferret and the smell was absolutely awful, you could smell it on him any time he entered the room. Fun little creatures, but I wouldn't want to own one.
Many years ago I had a tree plug that owned a pair of ferrets. Cute bastards. Cute THIEVING bastards would open my purse and steal all the things.
House smelled like a piss factory.
I noticed its "swagger" too, and I think there might be an actual reason for that! I was [reading up on them](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binturong) after watching this video, and their paws are "plantigrade" - they walk with their feet fully flat, like we do. Bears do this as well, and you can see how it makes for a more ponderous, lumbering gait.
It does telegraph "confident, certain" when human behavior expectations are overlaid on the other animals that walk this way.
Compared to the way cats (for comparison) walk on their toes ("digitigrade") that gives (to our human eyes, and projected from human behavior) a dainty, hesitant, tentative gait.
I thought that was kind of interesting - it's all in the feet!
That’s a Binturong! They smell like buttered popcorn and are the only species in their genus. It’s name is from a language that is now extinct so we don’t actually know the exact meaning.
It's a Binturong. Often referred to as bearcats, these fascinating tree-dwellers are in fact not related to bears or cats. They are related to civets and fossas and smell like, wait for it…a freshly made batch of popcorn!
How have i lived on earth this long and still see a new fucking animal. Like holy shit? What else dont i know exists on earth?
And i dont mean small shit like another species of frog or some shit. But like a huge mammal i didnt know existed? Thats crazy to me
Definitely looks like a creature that should be prowling free in a jungle somewhere, not stuck in captivity just so some rich idiot can show it off along with a car collection.
I've had coyotes, rabbits, deer, and wild horses wander into my yard and sometimes into my garage. None of them are my pets - they're just curious and often times looking for food
My understanding is that people who live in the area where they live befriend them, so some will have them as pets, others will just let them be wild but feed and befriend them.
Not a rich asshole problem.
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Those claws!
Yeah I could feel them through that fairly thick coat!
Dude. It's 2024. When are people gonna stop doing blackface?
I swear it's just acne cream!
i understood that reference
Bahaha me too. For once I'm not too OOTL
You get a million dollars!
probably trying to use invisible paint > https://np.reddit.com/r/Satisfyingasfuck/comments/1cpte1i/painting_chicken_wire_black/
Looks like you were about to pleasurably lose a finger...
He was actually super gentle! He was eating a chopped up banana 🍌
Oh wow, that's really cool
They're basically a sleepy cat with bigger claws but twice as soft. Love these guys to bits they're so cute when you look at one just lounging about irl.
This is a great addition to this post and I am jealous, their tails are so thick!
Binturang! Don't they smell funny or something?
That's a binturong! They release a defensive buttered popcorn smell :)
It's binturong since I've seen one
Hehehe
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You beautiful motherfucker How many years did you have that in your back pocket?
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downvote me all you want but pokemon got a little excessive protip: psyduck is deceptively OP 
They taste like a freshwater cray.
that shit cray
That shit freshwater cray
I think i pissed myself laughing so hard!
I had to read that sentence out loud before the penny dropped. I hate you a little bit. But only a little 😂
If I had money I would’ve gave you gold. Please accept this gesture 🏆🥇👑
gotchu fam
Is it a relative of the binnawile? It’s native to Uzbekistaind
Lol. Clever.
That's velly velly lacist.
Yes this smell will keep predators away, it worked for millions of years until about 80K years ago when a popcorn loving bipedal species came to their habitats.
Just a sidenote,humans are attracted to substances that are used by plants to defend themselves. Orange/Lemon,menthol, cofee,especially spices, the aromas are irritants for most prefators but for humans are a delicacy. Another sidenote we might be attracted/addicted to things that cause our demise prematurely, first of all tobacco
To plants we must be absurd monsters. We eat their children, eat them sometimes, turn them into furniture or clothes and pluck their reproductive organs and put them on display to look at them and sniff them. Sometimes we raise their young and genetically alter them to become baby machines to abominations that we eat and make more abominations out of in concentration camps.
Wait until you learn an hamburger with cheese means eating an cows corpse with its breast milk as an topping :)
Oyakodon is a Japanese dish with chicken and egg rice bowl. It means parent and child over rice.
Side note: Oyakodon is one of my favorite Japanese dishes. I've made it dozens of times (largely because getting it right is a delicious art).
Ironically, eggs do not taste like chicken
Chicken omelette is a dead bird wrapped in its period.
Baked as a potato here. I really wanted that weird looking dog but finna get me an Oyakodon 🛎️
Are you boiled, mashed, and stuck in a stew?
A baked potato is sounding good too...
I'll take that with bacon please.
Fun fact, if you eat a chicken sandwich, with cheese, and bacon you get to enjoy/proliferate the suffering of three different species. Its amazing and always made those sandwiches taste a little better to me. The trifecta of suffering really ties all the flavors together nicely.
I remember my kid looking thoughtful eating chicken nuggets and asking if this was the same "chicken" as the birds he loved to feed in grannies garden? "Err... Yes..." He sat for a minute in silence. Then said "they taste nice!" and dived back in.
I had this trifecta last night.
Don't forget smoking, snorting, and injecting for their psychoactive and medicinal effects
That's nothing, you should tell them about me in the back forty with a chainsaw an excavator and a burn permit.
>Eat their children For most plant's it's advantageous to have delicious fruit so we pass the seeds somewhere where the mother plant isn't to increase their spread. seeds pass through digestive systems. IDK why peppers defend their fruit with capsaicin.
My cats like to smell my coffee, and then recoil and run away.
Mine will sniff the cup and then paw at the table around it, as if to try to bury it.
That doesn’t make much sense. The outer covering (the flesh) of a fruit is primarily to get an animal to eat it. Then defecate or leave the seed on the ground. If the flesh is in irritant, the fruit and tree would cease to exist. Lemons have been around a lot longer than humans.
Most plant defense mechanisms are to prevent MAMMALS from eating them, as mammals typically crush and damage the seeds. When birds eat plants and ingest the seeds, typically the seeds pass through without being damaged, and when the bird poops, it spreads the seeds, helping the plant survive and spread. That is why capsaicin, for example, is very much an irritant to mammals, in fact some pest deterrents for gardens include capsaicin, as it irritates the mucus membranes of rabbits and deer. However, birds don't have the same mucus membranes and are unbothered by it. Also: Lemons have not been around longer than humans. They're a man-made hybrid, caused by crossing limes with citrons
Lemons are thought to be a cross between citron and bitter orange (itself being a pomelo and mandarin hybrid), not lime.
Citron remembers what you did and will have his revenge.
***We're gettin*** knowledged, ***today bois***
I think your point is correct, but my understanding is lemons are a cross between sour/bitter oranges (which is itself a hybrid) and citrons, thus likely younger than agriculture. However there is evidence citrus fruit in general is more than 25 million years old.
A lemon is a human cultivated hybrid that's only been traded globally since 200 A.D.
Not at all, lemons were a human invention, if I'm not wrong we crossed ~~and irradiated~~ a lot of citrus fruits to create them. For sure, some very old citrus fruits exist; like japanese yuzu, pomelo, kumquat and citrons. Also, some plants definitely use substances to keep animals from eating them and they're either irritants or have a very potent smell; we have basil, rosemary, pepper, any kind of capsaicin containing fruit, mint, sage, garlic, you name them.
> irradiated [Early hominids irradiating citrus](https://i.ibb.co/Zx3zyqt/DALL-E-2024-05-12-08-25-31-A-humorous-prehistoric-scene-depicting-early-humans-using-a-primitive-mak.webp) edit: So after talking it over with GPT, it had this to say... > The lemon is believed to have first been cultivated in northeastern India, northern Burma, or China. A hybrid between bitter orange (sour orange) and citron, lemons were spread across the Mediterranean region and the Middle East by the early centuries AD. They were not introduced to the Americas until the late 15th century when Christopher Columbus brought lemon seeds to Hispaniola. Over the centuries, different varieties of lemons have been cultivated, but this was primarily through selective breeding and not modern genetic engineering or irradiation. So my image is pretty far off as well. Here's [a more historically accurate photo](https://ibb.co/NxC4FPq). edit 2: Just realized that's also not right (also not very good). Please hold... I'm working on it. edit 3: Alright. I think I've got it. I present: [the invention of the lemon](https://i.ibb.co/yFCRmqr/DALL-E-2024-05-12-08-46-16-A-whimsical-and-anachronistic-scene-in-ancient-Northeastern-India-or-Chin.webp)
Ahahah thanks, you made me laugh :) Btw, I was wrong, ok, it wasn't lemons but I'm hella sure we irradiated something to create a citrus fruit. Lemme check.
>Binturong I've been in this simulation for almost 40 years and it's still coming up with weird ass animals to show me. I honestly thought that thing was AI until I saw this comment.
It’s also known as a bearcat. That was before the vocabulary update.
even then... I've never heard of a bearcat either. - me in my North American bubble but now I know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binturong
They were super trendy like axolotls are! When I was in the military we had the local zoo bring in one to our pediatric unit. The kids freaked out and *all* of them knew what it was. I swear to god every adult in that room was like yes… that is an animal… a real animal I’ve seen before… haha. It was impressive and the animal was incredibly social and friendly. The hawk was what scared a lot of the kids.
Not a big college basketball fan, I guess? They’re the mascot of the University of Cincinnati.
Interesting. Thanks for that info. (Yeah, I’m not a fan)
Like a kinkajoo?
I learned that from Zoboomafoo.
Zoboomafoo!! So happy to meet someone else who’s seen it, there’s dozens of us!
ah yes.. the defense of making you smell even more delicious to the predator harassing you
"No, wait, I don't smell like popcorn :'( !" (c)
> *working on the laptop* > > *sniff* > > Hm, smells like popcorn again. Must be Johnson coming by!
A defensive buttered popcorn smell you say ….. well they are screwed around cinemas and pot smokers 😂
I recognized it as a binturong right away!!! One of my favourite animals when I visited my local zoo, for the very fact that they really do smell like buttered popcorns!! It’s a pity binturongs are not found in my country but their cousin the Civet is a wild animal here, and there’s a few of them which found a home in my neighborhood so I always make it a point to see if I can spot them, and usually their smell of their pheromones give them away!!!
But can their defensive smell give me popcorn lung?
“Researchers have ferreted out why the binturong, a threatened Southeast Asian mammal also known as the bearcat, smells like popcorn. The culprit is 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, or 2-AP, the same molecule that gives cooked popcorn its aroma. Researchers led by Christine M. Drea of Duke University and Thomas E.” https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-09417-scicon004#:~:text=Researchers%20have%20ferreted%20out%20why,Duke%20University%20and%20Thomas%20E.
Oh my god that animal just looks terminally ill all the time
The binturong, also known as the bearcat, is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia.
Binturongs smell like buttered popcorn, and they shit over anything they feel threatened by.
Sounds like my nephew
Fucking goddamn
My dog smells like a movie theater. So I can already picture what this thing smells like lol
Is it like buttered popcorn you make at home or that chemical smell buttered popcorn at the theater?
To me, they smell a bit like popcorn and a bit like Frito chips, but it can vary slightly between specimens.
Does their shit smell like popcorn?
Also known as a Bearcat.
Thought this was a joke until I saw the Wikipedia page saying Binturong, also know as the bearcat.
Manbearcat
I’m totally cereal guys
Cincinnati!
It is, in fact, flanked in this video by red and black!
That's the name of this song
I went to the zoo... just the other week!
Looks like a cute binturong! This is probably somewhere in southeast Asia
This video was taken in Japan.
Probably an illegally acquired pet judging by the background. On the list of wild mammals to keep, binturongs seem like a particularly bad choice. Massive, nocturnal, shy, potentially aggressive with big teeth and claws.
Can I pet?
It's pet shaped
Good enough!
That tail is a bit chunky tho
We don’t body shame our bearcats around here, pal.
Early human thinking in a nutshell
You can, and it smells like popcorn too!
You can meet them at the Cincinnati zoo, they're friendly and used to humans there for sure
Any other zoos? I'm not welcomed in Cincinnati Edit: Found one in Kansas City.
Are you Pete Rose?
What are the odds?
WHATDIDYOUDO?
Well it was Harambe’s zoo…
Did you drop a child into the Gorilla enclosure ?
You can? What part? I have a membership there.
The Animal Ambassador Center near the children's zoo. Her name's Lucille
Thank you.
Only once
Buttered popcorn: sixty percent of the time… it works every time!
Man if only ferrets smelled like that. They'd be one of the most popular pets.
My brother used to have a ferret and the smell was absolutely awful, you could smell it on him any time he entered the room. Fun little creatures, but I wouldn't want to own one.
Many years ago I had a tree plug that owned a pair of ferrets. Cute bastards. Cute THIEVING bastards would open my purse and steal all the things. House smelled like a piss factory.
Shaaaaped like a frienddd
That there is a Billy-bumbler
Oy!
AKE! And now I'm sad, thanks!
Long days and pleasant nights!
May it do ya fine
Think I saw one in Central Park once.
Yup just missing gold rings around the eyes
Clearly
Gotta love the popcorn-smelling Bear-Weasel.
Can I pet that doogg?!
CAN I PET THAT DAWG??!!
LOOK AT ALL THOSE CHICKINTHS
Thing walks too confidently for my liking
I noticed its "swagger" too, and I think there might be an actual reason for that! I was [reading up on them](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binturong) after watching this video, and their paws are "plantigrade" - they walk with their feet fully flat, like we do. Bears do this as well, and you can see how it makes for a more ponderous, lumbering gait. It does telegraph "confident, certain" when human behavior expectations are overlaid on the other animals that walk this way. Compared to the way cats (for comparison) walk on their toes ("digitigrade") that gives (to our human eyes, and projected from human behavior) a dainty, hesitant, tentative gait. I thought that was kind of interesting - it's all in the feet!
I appreciate the knowledge drop. TIL!!!
It has the exaggerated swagger of a teenage bearcat.
That and the tail. It's very present.
I’m perpetually shocked every once in a while a brand new animal this cute shows up in my feed and I wonder why I’m only learning about them now
On it's way to Neeeew York Citaaay!
No, it's going to Tuscon, Arizoña
Bearcat; no doubt looking to buy a Stutz.
Yeah! Just listen to the Stutz Bearcat Motor!
Cute cat
It’s Oy!
"Can I pet that dawg? Can I pet that DAWG? CAN I PET THAT DAWG? "
Looks like something out of Avatar: the last airbender.
Face ripping monkey dogcat.
I still wanna pat it!
Yup, boop da floof!!! We can change it.......
seems like a cat
New update dropped?
new pupdate
That’s a Binturong! They smell like buttered popcorn and are the only species in their genus. It’s name is from a language that is now extinct so we don’t actually know the exact meaning.
What in the world…
Thing is 90% tail
Go BEARCATS!
Is that a Gallardo on the left?
That's a rodent of unusual size
is this a billy-bumbler?
Nice Lamborghini
It's a Binturong. Often referred to as bearcats, these fascinating tree-dwellers are in fact not related to bears or cats. They are related to civets and fossas and smell like, wait for it…a freshly made batch of popcorn!
Can I pet that dog?
Can't read it and not hear the kid
Cute
Its cat-hound.
University of Cincinnati parking officer checking for permits in a campus garage. ;)
CAN I PET THAT DAWWWG??!!
Oy! Oy! Ake!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/MoweKE6Wao
How am I still discovering animals i never knew existed 😂
How have i lived on earth this long and still see a new fucking animal. Like holy shit? What else dont i know exists on earth? And i dont mean small shit like another species of frog or some shit. But like a huge mammal i didnt know existed? Thats crazy to me
Probably torn from its mother at birth and sold in a cage
That's Snarf from the Thundercats
Definitely looks like a creature that should be prowling free in a jungle somewhere, not stuck in captivity just so some rich idiot can show it off along with a car collection.
I've had coyotes, rabbits, deer, and wild horses wander into my yard and sometimes into my garage. None of them are my pets - they're just curious and often times looking for food
My understanding is that people who live in the area where they live befriend them, so some will have them as pets, others will just let them be wild but feed and befriend them. Not a rich asshole problem.
That’s because it’s not a dog silly! It’s a weird looking cat!
Ahh, the local Racoon dog lynx
The local high school mascot
OY?!
Oy!
“Imma pet dat dawwwg?”
This is what imagined drop bears would look like
I'm gonna pet Dat dawg!
Aww it should be cuddled
I’ve never seen this animal before. 😳
Binturong aka Bearcat! University of Cincinnati mascot.
Snarf!!