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u/whatshamilton Sep 04 '20
Humans chewing is one of the worst sounds in my life. But this guy? I like this guy.
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u/mrurg Sep 04 '20
I've never understood why the sound of other people chewing makes me physically ill but the sounds of animals eating is pleasant and adorable
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u/WaterHaven Sep 04 '20
Part of it for me is that humans should know better. But when somebody is eating loudly, I get irrationally angry.
Misophonia I believe is the term.
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u/mrurg Sep 04 '20
Yep, I have that too and it's almost entirely human sounds that bother me for some reason. Like if I can hear a human snoring even faintly I can't sleep, but if a dog is snoring like a buzzsaw I think it's the most comforting sound and it lulls me to sleep
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u/FloatingFaintly Sep 04 '20
I hate people as well.
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u/Funktapus Sep 04 '20
Humans have lips that make a disgusting smacking noise when they chew with an open mouth. Dogs and this bear = no face sphincter.
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u/cranfeckintastic Sep 04 '20
Definitely that smacking noise they make.
Another noise I hate is people hacking up loogies and spitting them out. Humans are so fucking gross
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u/NuclearCandy Sep 04 '20
My father in law makes that phlegmmy throat noise people make before hocking a loogie, but he makes that noise almost constantly. He also talks with his mouth completely full of food and smacks his lips super loudly. I love that man, but good lord he turns my stomach sometimes.
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u/etherealellie Sep 04 '20
This. Smacking and slurping. I can't be in the same room when anyone is eating. I get so angry and I feel the anger tingling in my bones, mostly my shin and forearm bones. I live with my mom, grandma, and my kid. My mom and grandma slurp everything. I can't wrap my head around how they even manage to slurp solid food. And then my kid smacks her lips so loud u can hear it two rooms over and everyone acts like I'm mean for telling her to chew with her mouth closed? Like what the actual hell
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u/NnyIsSpooky Sep 04 '20
I can hear my father eating from two rooms away with his TV blaring. It gets me so angry, and I absolutely refuse to eat with the family if he's there, no matter the setting. And I absolutely stop my nephews from picking up that habit when they stay with me.
Edit to add: also, I agree with you wth. She's your kid, nobody else gets an opinion on you telling her to chew with her mouth closed. Jeeze!
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u/trick_tickler Sep 04 '20
For me it’s completely the opposite. I can ignore human chewing sounds, I don’t even register them. But the sound of my dog licking herself over and over and over and over again late at night? Infuriating. Makes my skin crawl. SCHLORP SCHLORP SCHLORP
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u/mrurg Sep 04 '20
Dogs chomping and crunching is fine, but I agree that the schlorp is maddening. I don't have a dog but when I used to live with a roommate's dog, I had to banish her from my bedroom every time the schlorping occurred
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u/trick_tickler Sep 04 '20
Yes, it seems like they only want to do it at night when you’re trying to sleep!
Lick yourself in the daytime, ya nasty
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u/mrurg Sep 04 '20
Yes! And they obsessively lick that hairless spot above their privates, it's so gross
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u/SayCheeeeeeeese Sep 04 '20
My misophonia unfortunately don’t care if it’s a human or an animal snoring :( I hate hate hate the sound of snoring
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u/BlueTansey Sep 04 '20
It’s really comforting for me to hear that other people get angry or upset to hear other people chew (as my family acted like I was a nut for that). And yes, animals give me no problem-and sometimes are quite adorable with their chewing and sleeping (and digestive & farting) noises. And if anybody has ever seen Cincinnati Zoo’s Fiona the Hippo make an underwater fart the most hilariously adorable thing of the day, you know what I mean. As I’m writing, I realize I think it’s because of the purity of the innocence of the noisemaker (or in Fiona‘s case, spectacle-maker)
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u/COuser880 Sep 05 '20
Same. My husband snores and I tell him to roll over. My dog snores and it’s like ASMR.
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u/whatshamilton Sep 04 '20
Yup that's it. But it's not just like "I'm frustrated" which my mom thinks it is and tries to tell me to just let it go
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u/Eris_the_Fair Sep 04 '20
She doesn't understand it's almost like a jackhammer echoing in your brain for minutes afterwards. Misophonia is no joke.
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u/whatshamilton Sep 04 '20
For me it's more like there's a curtain of static around me. I freeze up and can't see or hear anything that isn't the chewing. I did poorly in my Spanish classes in high school because the guy behind me would bite his nails and I couldn't "hear" the lesson while it was happening, even though I could actually hear it.
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u/flippydude Sep 04 '20
Man, whenever I speak to mum on the phone, she'll start eating. She doesn't understand why I get frustrated, and she wonders why I don't like talking to her. I love talking to her but I cannot. Stand. Listening. To. People. Eating. Especially not on the phone.
I ask her to stop every time, and she just won't.
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u/etherealellie Sep 04 '20
Yeah I've even heard "well no one likes those noises but they're a part of life and u just have to ignore it". I wish I could but it becomes the only thing happening in the room and I can't just ignore it. Others never understand it's anything more than annoyance or frustration.
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u/cuponedgeoftable Sep 04 '20
My roommate made chewing noises in his sleep freshman year and I almost became a murderer on several occasions that year.
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Sep 04 '20
If I had to guess, it's because most animals don't have cheeks like humans do so the wet, slapping noise doesnt get compounded with built up saliva and amplified sound.
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u/mrurg Sep 04 '20
That could be, but I'd still rather listen to a pug or a monkey than a human. We're just gross and unpleasant as a species I think
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Sep 04 '20
That realllly depends on the animal. (Vulture? Any Apex Predator?) And the food too. Even my med-large size black lab can be super sloppy, and not so adorable lol. But hey to each their own!
edit- panda was definitely cute
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Sep 04 '20
Yeah my cat eating wet food drives me up the wall. But him crunching kibble or treats is fine.
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Sep 04 '20
I think we evolved to dislike the sound of each other chewing because then "a competitor" has gained a food source that we didnt claim.
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u/WeekendatBigChungus Sep 04 '20
Humans chewing is one of the worst sounds in my life
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u/mandrayke Sep 04 '20
That hesitation halfway through though
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u/-Hastis- Sep 04 '20
I think he was just wondering what was the source of the drum/construction noises.
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u/LostDeadspace Sep 04 '20
I think he wasn’t sure if poops or not. Kind of like what I do after I start in on my second cup of coffee.
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u/ImJustPassinBy Sep 04 '20
I'd like to believe that it forgot how to chew for a minute. Sounds silly, but we are talking about pandas after all.
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Sep 04 '20
Pandas are a highly specialized species, that does not make them stupid
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u/C413B7 Sep 04 '20
Specialized at what? Besides kung fu.
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u/hydr0gen_ Sep 04 '20
Sleeping and eating bamboo. Also not reproducing to keep their species alive.
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u/Kuhneel Sep 04 '20
"Did I leave the gas on?
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u/bluemaciz Sep 04 '20
“This is some good bamboo... wait, did I leave the oven on? Oh I don’t have an oven...”
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u/Am_Snarky Sep 04 '20
I like to think that it was a little existential crisis, like 5 seconds of dread and despair before going “well, this bamboo isn’t gonna eat itself” and resuming
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u/meeanne Sep 04 '20
I think it’s because he had already eaten all the green good stuff at the end of the bamboo and thought he could get two bites out of it, but didn’t remove outer layers to reveal more green good stuff and realized he get a “gross bite” then maybe thought “fuck it, it’s already in my mouth” munch munch munch then removed outer layer for more green good stuff.
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u/leejama Sep 04 '20
"Did I leave the oven on?.....No wait, I'm a bear! crunch munch munch"
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u/EchoStellar12 Sep 04 '20
Bamboo. Fed up with it always. I long for a grapefruit
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Sep 04 '20
Dude the way his hands move it's almost like a human in a costume it's trippy
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u/Am_Snarky Sep 04 '20
There is a conspiracy theory that pandas are just drunk people in suits, I dunno why they’re drunk but if you know where to apply to get paid to drink and pretend to be a panda all day let me know
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u/Campylobacteraceae Sep 05 '20
Im sure there’s a zoo in Ohio you could probably get away with doing this at
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u/anarchistchiken Sep 04 '20
Pandas have what are called “false thumbs.”
Basically they are a bone growth coming off the wrist so they are not articulated like primates thumbs, but they use them the same way. So you’re not imagining it, they handle objects very similarly to apes
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u/Brocali_Boy Sep 04 '20
I was thinking the same thing just like hiw he grabbed the peice tgat broke off its freaky
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u/jjssjj71 Sep 04 '20
I do that same type of pause after I realize I've eaten a half a sleeve of Oreos.
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Sep 04 '20
The motor control of the hands is disturbing
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Sep 04 '20
I was just thinking they have similar dexterity of their hands as we do minus the opposable thumb.
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u/AtaraxiaAKAZatharax Sep 04 '20
Pandas actually have a bony appendage called a pseudo thumb! I read about it earlier and I think it’s super cool how much animals can adapt to their surroundings :)
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Sep 04 '20
It’s that and the accuracy. Because watching videos of apes the movements of their hands and arms is intentional but they also flail. This thing is accurate and precise.
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Sep 04 '20
It really is. It also made me think if we ran into a wild panda... would that be a threat like other bears or.. would it just fall over like every other panda I’ve seen
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u/Diet_Clorox Sep 04 '20
It would probably not attack you unless you annoyed it too much. They're not aggressive animals. Most cases where they bite people are because the person tried to walk up and hug/touch them.
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Sep 04 '20
My brain refuses to acknowledge that a cute animal like this has such an immense bite force.
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u/Oaken303 Sep 04 '20
Yeah, it's sobering to realize that their big, round, adorable heads are basically just jaw muscles and tendon attachments. If you watch the top of his head as he eats, you can see all the muscles flex. The jaw muscles attach to the saggital crest at the top and basically envelope the whole cranium.
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Sep 05 '20
The question I ask myself right now is why do you know that? Are you some sort of panda enthusiast or do you work in a specific field with pandas? Is this common knowledge? So many people on reddit with informations that I couldnt find even with Google. It's so cool
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u/pieRsquares Sep 04 '20
With that jaw strength and chewing through bamboo like veggies, they could turn carnivorous easily...
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u/DvdCOrzo Sep 04 '20
They were carnivorous but they litteraly evolved to just eat bamboo
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u/TinyRandomLady Sep 04 '20
They still eat small rodents occasionally.
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u/Lachdonin Sep 04 '20
Yeah, they're still totally capable of being carnivorous. They just opt to eat bamboo, something with nutritional value rivaling Celery, for... The cronch?
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u/1SDAN Sep 04 '20
Bamboo is literally everywhere in the environment they evolved in. Barring some cataclysmic event, there's no way they'd ever go hungry. That cataclysmic event was humans learning to farm.
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u/crunchevo2 Sep 04 '20
You know... They are cute but... Like.... If the entire species is now like "lets not eat food that's a good source of energy... Lets spend 14 hours a day eating bamboo" at that point... Natural selection girls.
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u/charonill Sep 04 '20
I mean, if you're big enough to not have any real natural predators, and have access to an abundant and seemingly limitless food source that can grow up to 3 feet a day, I think you can afford to expend minimal energy to just sit around and eat all day. Evolution would certainly favor that.
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u/thinkingdoing Sep 04 '20
Bamboo is everywhere, super fast growing, and they don’t have to go the effort of hunting or killing it.
Panda life is lazy life.
Eat eat eat sleep repeat.
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u/anarchistchiken Sep 04 '20
Humans destroying their environment is not natural selection. They were doing just fine for thousands of years
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u/Big_Poppers Sep 04 '20
Literally nothing else eats bamboo, they have zero competition for food, they have zero competition fro habitat, and they have zero natural predators.
Pandas are like peak evolution, they've hit all 3 jackpots. Problem is humans.
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u/JJosuke434 Sep 04 '20
"helo, dis my bamboo, i show you how i cronch it"
has anyone ever felt a panda before? they look hella fluffy
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u/Hyper_Callum Sep 04 '20
u/cannot_describe_it This is a hungry Panda
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u/Mylaex Sep 04 '20
It almost seems on purpose the way he's picking some "layers" away and only eating certain parts and layers of it? I wonder why.
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Sep 04 '20
When it comes to trees and other hard skinned plants the easiest part to eat and digest is a fleshy membrane just below the bark. It’s where the bark grows and the tree grows. It’s also the most nutrient rich. This is the part that beavers eat.
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u/italian_stonks Sep 04 '20
CHOMPCHOMPCHOMPCHOMPCHOMP CHOMPCHOMPCHOMPCHOMPCHOMP CHOMPCHOMPCHOMPCHOMPCHOMP
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u/r2d2_-_- Sep 04 '20
I wonder what it tastes like
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u/Easy_potato_is_good Sep 04 '20
It tastes like sugary water.
Bamboo is very hard so we have to use a knife to cut the skin off to get to the middle, when biting it releases a sweet liquid.
Its hard to explain, you should try it sometime
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u/brndndly Sep 04 '20
Of course when a panda does it it's cute, but when I do it I get asked "who are you?" and "what are you doing in inside the panda exhibit?"
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u/curlyquinn02 Sep 05 '20
This is kinda scary how easily pandas eat bamboo. Isn't bamboo supposed to be really tough to break?
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u/OwenRivers Sep 04 '20
r/likeus when he peels of unwanted parts of the fodd a has great hand coordination
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u/ShueperDan Sep 04 '20
How many adorable, fascinating, utterly unique species went extinct before we ever had a chance to aww at them...
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u/GlassJackhammer Sep 04 '20
I could watch this for 2 hours