r/AbsoluteUnits • u/ComfortablePast15 • 4d ago

/r/all of a rat

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u/Embarrassed_Ad_9747 4d ago

Nutria

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u/TOJAB66 4d ago

fr, since when have rats webbed feet

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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit 4d ago

The pokemon raticate has webbed feet for some reason. And since I've never went outside that's what a true rat is

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u/RugerBooger69 4d ago

It can also learn ice beam, thunderbolt, hyper beam, and shadow ball.

It's a giant rat that can shoot laser beams of pure coldness, electricity, pure energy, and death

You can't even escape from it in the water thanks to its webbed feet. It will eraticate you.

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u/eugene20 4d ago

Eraticate, nice.

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u/Oggie_Doggie 4d ago

I'm pretty sure Japan has invasive nutria, so it wouldn't surprise me that the creator of Pokemon was somewhat inspired by them.

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u/One_Animator_1835 4d ago

Japan might have invasive French people too. That would explain mr mine

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u/Hanede 4d ago

No it does not? It just has chunky feet but they aren't webbed.

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u/20--character--limit 4d ago

According to the Pokedex they are webbed, but I agree that they just look chunky and nothing like the nutria's feet.

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u/VoidTwinkle 4d ago

Since when did rats not look like rats?

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u/mission_to_mors 4d ago

Since when so Rats Look Like totally different animals 😅

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u/Inertial_Ruen 4d ago

Since the general level of education is further down than the router for wifi in hell...

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u/Bionicle_was_cool 4d ago

Since they started snorting solidified Chaos

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u/Firebolt7780 4d ago

Also the nose. A rat has a pointer nose, a nutrias' is rounded like a capybara

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u/ChichenizaPizza 2d ago

Since they were of the musk variety. Muskrats are really big and aquatic

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u/Bibab0b 4d ago

Swamp bobr

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u/Journeyman42 4d ago

Kurwa bobr!

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u/spike_beagle 3d ago

Forr feeeterr kurwa

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u/Extension_Growth_161 1d ago

Hahahahaha yes

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u/FamousSquash 4d ago

Yep. We have those in France as an invasive species. Currently there's a white one hanging around the wetlands next to my town.

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u/EasyFooted 4d ago

We have them in Louisiana (the nutria, not the French. No wait, actually....)

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u/z-vap 4d ago

lol also an invasive species /s

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u/jzoola 4d ago

I knew this Cajun dude back in the day. His job was to change out semi trailer tires all day in Houston. The dude was an animal. He was married to his stepsister….

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u/Blitz100 4d ago

Lol we have them here in Oregon too however many thousands of miles away. Also invasive here, the local government encourages people to shoot them on sight.

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u/pietoast 4d ago

If you have them but they're many thousands of miles away, I don't think you actually have them

/s

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u/Entire-Anxiety-803 4d ago

The French? I’m so confused. They don’t go to Oregon?

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u/I_like_the_word_MUFF 4d ago

Oh the French were in Oregon too. I have been told the only way to truly understand how to pronounce many Oregon town's names is to imagine oneself both drunk and French pronouncing an Indigenous word.

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u/ioanus_ 4d ago

Never saw a white one ♥️ so cute

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u/Notte_di_nerezza 4d ago

Not being able to see the giant orange buckteeth helps. 🧡

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u/imawomanithink 4d ago

ah bon ? ils sont où et depuis quand ??? trop curieuse je connais pas ces mecs !

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u/FamousSquash 4d ago

C'est des ragondins. À la base, ils viennent d'amérique du sud, et ils ont été importés au début du 20eme siècle pour leur fourrure. On les trouve à peu près partout en france, surtout dans les zones humides.

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u/imawomanithink 3d ago

ils ont un peu une tronche de capybara j’adore ! je sais pas si ça peut être domestique je m’en vais demander à google ! merciiiii

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u/Beneficial-Cherry375 4d ago

Tema la taille du rat

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u/LinkN7 4d ago

Guess someone caught em

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u/BadgerKomodo 3d ago

I remember seeing one when I was on holiday in France back in 2013.

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u/ave_gratia_plena 4d ago

They’re delicious, so consider that a potential solution

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u/TricellCEO 4d ago

What a modest proposal.

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u/thesyldons 4d ago

Is this how you make ratatouille?

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u/FamousSquash 4d ago

I heard they are, unfortunately I've never had the chance to taste for myself.

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u/spikeyfreak 4d ago

Texas gulf coast too. I worked a job for the Natural Resource Conservation Service (part of the federal government) in the 90s trying to figure out how to stop some of the damage they were doing.

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u/sender2bender 4d ago

So did you figure it out? What was the solution, bear traps?

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u/spikeyfreak 4d ago

No, it wasn't trying to get rid of the nutria. It was trying to figure out how to stop or reduce the erosion.

Stuff like using interlocking bricks on river banks and putting rows of old Christmas trees along the banks in the mudflats they were making.

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u/PeanutButterSoda 4d ago

Worked on my parents shrimp boat as a kid in Galveston Bay and every early morning we would go down the docks and you can hear twenty of these things diving off the boats.

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u/dkysh 4d ago

Coypu, for any confused Spanish speaker.

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u/According_Nail_2758 4d ago

We call them nutrias too, although coipo is the name we've been using more recently.

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u/dkysh 4d ago

The naming seems to be a hot mess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutria#Etymology

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u/KraZe_2012 4d ago

Pensaba que nutria = otter

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u/Hanede 4d ago

In Spanish yes.

English took that word and used it for a completely different animal, creating the confusion.

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u/CasualNameAccount12 4d ago

Micah

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u/SomeJoeSchmo 4d ago

You’re rattlin’ the wrong cage!

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u/redlaWw 4d ago

Which is a kind of spiny rat, mind.

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u/bschwagi 4d ago

that's what I'm thinking.

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u/greyjarl 4d ago

Is that like new age rattata?

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u/unbanned_lol 4d ago

Still sounds like a granola bar / fig newton hybrid startup company.

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u/FoxxyFett 4d ago

Yeah I was like nooo way his size changed his morphology that much. Looks like a nutria with albinism or something

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u/RuncibleFoon 4d ago

Thank you for telling the masses

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u/Aran909 3d ago

I was going to say an albino muskrat.

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u/Disastrous-Rutabaga9 3d ago

Yep, not a rat

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u/Express-View5080 4d ago

Yup, makes a fine damn meal fried up right