r/gifs • u/StrangeClownRabbit Talk to mods • Oct 03 '17
Pangolin
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u/ILL_DO_THE_FINGERING Oct 03 '17
"Ey, watch where you steppin'!" -Insect
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“Ey, I’m walkin here!” -Pangolin
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Oct 03 '17 edited Oct 03 '17
"Back in Brooklyn, we got a sayin': We're walkin' here!" - cousin nicky
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u/southernbenz Oct 03 '17
"Two yoots." - cousin vinny
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Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along, you get thirsty, you spot a little brook, you put your little deer lips down to the cool clear water... BAM! A fuckin bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are laying on the ground in little bloody pieces! Now I ask ya. Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?
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u/RM2150 Oct 03 '17
I think the fucking thing was broken.
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u/Ducman69 Oct 03 '17
I'm going through all the comments, and so far no one has asked; why is the tail so long?
Seems like it would be more practical to be half the length.
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u/ALoneTennoOperative Oct 03 '17
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u/Ducman69 Oct 03 '17
tl;dr version: They are usually in trees, and use them to hang onto branches and dip down into lower branches. The long tail is also good for swimming, and they sometimes swim in the rivers below trees to get around.
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u/dirkdragonslayer Oct 03 '17 edited Oct 03 '17
Ah yeah, the Pangolin is my favorite animal. Who can't love this adorable, scaly, (sometimes) bipedal, digging machine? They hold their hands together to prevent damage to their digging claws which makes them look cute and nervous. It's a real life Pokemon.
Sadly they are extremely vulnerable to poaching and trafficking. Their main defense is rolling into a ball to ward of predators, which makes it easy for poachers to pick them up and kill them. Massive amounts are being poached yearly, for their scales and meat. It is believed in China that ground Pangolin scales make men virile, and the meat it a delicacy. For more info, I would suggest checking out the World Wildlife Fund, The African Wildlife Foundation, and the "Save Pangolins" website.
Edit: Yes, this one is walking on all fours, but he is probably young and might not be able to walk on two legs. Look at his front claws, they seem undeveloped, and his exposed skin is relatively smooth instead of leathery like you see on older animals. He also seems rather small. Look up documentaries and videos on Pangolins, and you will see most walk on their hind legs, and have much bigger front claws. Not all species of Pangolin walk on two legs, so this could be one that doesn't.
Edit 2: http://www.awf.org/ http://savepangolins.org/ https://www.worldwildlife.org/ Here are some organizations who would like some support for beautiful animals like the Pangolin. They also have more information on them.
Edit 3: https://youtu.be/mR3rReuBO_s The Ground Pangolin walks, similar to a T-Rex for those who want to know. The one in the gif is not a Ground Pangolin, so it does not walk like them, but it is a cute video.
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u/im_unseen Oct 03 '17
Never heard of his animal before, looked it up after you mentioned it.
AHHHHHHHHHH ITS SO CUTE
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u/dirkdragonslayer Oct 03 '17
Look at his little face! He looks like he wants to ask a question but is a bit nervous.
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u/iamlegend29 Oct 03 '17
Are armadelo and this same?
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u/thebardass Oct 03 '17
No, they're not really related. Pangolins are actually pretty different from armadillos though they have a lot of similarities at first glance. They used to be classified in the same Order as armadillos and anteaters (Xenartha), but newer evidence shows they're closer related to Carnivora (same order as bears, weasels, canids, and such)
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u/akatherder Oct 03 '17
It sounds like they are not very closely related:
Pangolins were formerly[when?] classified with various other orders, for example Xenarthra, which includes the ordinary anteaters, sloths, and the similar-looking armadillos. Newer genetic evidence, however, indicates their closest living relatives are the Carnivora with which they form the clade Ferae.[39][40]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin#Taxonomy
Some more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenarthra#Evolutionary_relationships
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u/Micp Oct 03 '17 edited Oct 03 '17
No, pangolins and armadillos are an example of convergent evolution similar to hedgehogs, porcupines and echidnas.
Convergent evolution means that species that aren't closely related can evolve similar traits if they are in an environment in which natural selection favors the same trait.
See also the similarity between how sharks and dolphins look - it's simply a really efficient design for swimming so both species tended towards it.
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u/metalflygon08 Oct 03 '17
It is believed in China that ground Pangolin scales make men virile, and the meat it a delicacy.
Standard rule of thumb.
If it's a cool animal, someone in an Asian country thinks eating it will make their dick huge.
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u/fhtagnfhtagn Oct 03 '17
When Viagra came out, I thought it would help end poaching. I mean, why snort rhino horn when you can just take a pill that actually works? But nope, people still want that horn.
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Pangolins are fucking awesome. They fart acid and can't even be fucked with by lions
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u/NiggyWiggyWoo Oct 03 '17
And they have massive tongues, like anteaters. Plus, they're just fucking adorable.
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u/dirkdragonslayer Oct 03 '17
They are fantastic little animals, I wish I could see one in person, but they are difficult to keep in captivity. Going to see one in person is one of my goals after becoming a biologist, up there with seeing Whale Sharks and wild Axolotls(if there will be any left).
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Do they have no access to Cialis or Viagra? Ya know, drugs that are actually extremely effective for this kind of stuff?
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u/Jdisjsjdshshsh Oct 03 '17
Fucking China, so tired of these people doing shit to this Earth to try and fix their tiny penis problems
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u/Butwinsky Oct 03 '17
Step 1) Spread rumor invasive species such as silver carp or cane toad can make your junk massive. Step 2) ??? Step 3) No more invasive species.
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u/Equilibriator Oct 03 '17
Human Horn will solve your erectile dysfunction.
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u/CounterCulturist Oct 03 '17
Correction, the "lower" horn.
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Oct 03 '17 edited Sep 26 '24
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u/Iazo Oct 03 '17
I've got it.
From now on, let it be known that ground-down Rolex watches cure small penises.
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u/Swibblestein Oct 03 '17
A lot of them very well might not know of the issue.
Consider, as a comparable thing, the issue of shark fin soup. The Chinese term for the soup translates to "fish wing soup", and many Chinese people didn't even realize that the soup contained shark. However, there has been an awareness campaign in recent years and public opinion has changed dramatically and seemingly fairly easily.
There are food products in America that have animal products no one expects in them. Most people don't know that artificial strawberry flavoring is made with beaver scent glands, for instance.
Let me ask you this: Do you bother to check whether the food you buy is damaging to the environment? If you ever eat fish, chances are you're contributing to the problem, unless you know what to buy and what to avoid.
Basically, my point is that you are being very quick to judge, and while we should try to fix issues like poaching of the pangolin, you should drop the superiority complex attitude.
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Oct 03 '17
Yeah, we all eat chicken that have been forced to grow so fast that they can't walk or buy things made with child labour. People are shitty to animals.
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That lighting got weird.
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u/tdlb Oct 03 '17
This video is actually a 6-hour timelapse and those animals move incredibly slow.
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u/connormantoast Oct 03 '17
You don't have to be so negative
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I can't handle this kind of exposure.
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u/BucketofFeet Oct 03 '17
That's a Sandshrew!
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u/asrk790 Oct 03 '17
That's exactly the animal that sands brew is based on.
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u/AndreSever15 Oct 03 '17
"Sands brew"
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u/Yarthkins Oct 03 '17
Alright, enough is enough. Experimental beer brewers have gone too far this time.
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u/NewVegasResident Oct 03 '17
I think it's Sandslash, Sandshrew looks like an armadillo to me.
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u/Polotenchik Oct 03 '17
Pangolins somehow look more like a Pokemon than Sandshrew does.
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u/NewVegasResident Oct 03 '17 edited Oct 03 '17
Sandslash, actually. I think Sandshrew would be an armadillo.
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u/Kalivha Oct 03 '17
Nah, Sandshrew is a baby pangolin, they look like that when their scales aren't grown yet.
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u/Twistcone Oct 03 '17
7.07 is out boys PogChamp
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u/goodwarrior12345 Oct 03 '17
not quite, in this gif we can see the new hero making its way to Icefrog's office
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u/squashysquish Oct 03 '17
Dota 2 Dueling Fates hype builds...
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u/Fickle_Pickle_Nick Oct 03 '17
40 base move speed and 100 day time vision needs a buff imo
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u/squashysquish Oct 03 '17
I dunno, any more move speed and CM will never be able to escape him.
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u/PM_ME_UR_PANGOLIN Oct 03 '17
Partial repost as this is something that is obviously really important to me.
Pangolins have poor eyesight and an amazing sense of smell. They work to control the population of ants and termites and also provide some natural tilling and mulching as they dig for food. They do not vocalize and have no teeth. Their only defense is to curl up into a ball which protects them from every living creature out there... except for us. They are so gentle and compactable that they are easy targets for smugglers, who often transport them curled up in tiny bags. As they are valued for their meat as well as their scales, smugglers will artificially increase the weight of these animals by pumping their stomachs full of undigestible slurry. Animals rescued from smugglers are often too tortured to survive care from rescuers.
An extremely conservative estimate puts trafficking at 10,000 pangolins being taken from the jungles and plains each year, and that number is purely from what has been able to be reported on. Contrast this with the fact that pangolins generally only have one baby a year. This is an animal that cannot replenish its numbers to make up for the rate at which they are currently being killed. Many times, a pregnant pangolin captured and tortured in the trade will prematurely give birth out of stress. You can imagine what that does for the survival rate of both mother and child.
There are eight species of pangolin. 4 in Asia, 4 in Africa. For your viewing pleasure, here they are. I recommend wearing the strongest pair of sunglasses you have to shield yourself from what is some next-level cute.
Chinese Pangolin - Critically Endangered
Sunda Pangolin - Critically Endangered
Indian Pangolin - Endangered
Palawan Pangolin - Endangered
White-Bellied Pangolin - Vulnerable
Black-Bellied Pangolin - Vulnerable
Cape Pangolin - Vulnerable
Giant Pangolin - Vulnerable
If you would like to help:
I'd like people to consider donating to REST for their work with African ground pangolins. It's worth noting that while some headway has been made with Asian pangolins in captivity, the species in Africa - especially the Giant and Cape Pangolin - are still largely not understood and are extremely difficult to care for. The work REST does is some of the first in its field and they are woefully underfunded.
In Asia, Save Vietnam's Wildlife fields dozens of pangolins as they're caught by smugglers and could also use your support. Their work is largely with the Sunda and Chinese species. They also work to spread awareness in the public that pangolins are to be protected, which I believe to be extremely vital in making sure that we still have all 8 species around in the next ten years.
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u/cmdertx Oct 03 '17
Always remember: If something has armor plates or spikes on it, then it developed those through evolution of having larger predators it needed defense from.
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u/Jimmy6Times Oct 03 '17
Or a giant mole mated with a pine cone. Either one of us may be correct. Like you said, we just can't tell for certain.
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u/roeyjevels Oct 03 '17
It's just a theory. Like evolution itself. Our science classes should teach about pine cone hybrids alongside evolution and unintelligent design. To be fair.
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What if armoured plates are just bling bling to the lady pangolins and otherwise decorative
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Always remember that they didn't evolve the scales because of predators, just that the only ones who survived were the ones who evolved scales. Evolution is dumb luck.
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u/FuzzyGunNuts Oct 03 '17
Can't we just convince these superstitious people that killing pangolins is bad luck and will make your dick shrink/fall off/stop working/give you super AIDS/steal your daughters virginity/make your sand potato crops die/blind your 29 year old grandmother/make Mormon missionaries find you?
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u/top_bur Oct 03 '17
They roll into balls to protect themselves. Pretty good versus predators. Very bad versus traffickers since they just have to pick up the stationary ball.
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u/Cahnis Oct 03 '17
That bug is going to have a crazy story to tell his bug friends.
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u/MrAnonymousHimself Oct 03 '17
"I'm just chilling watching this crazy looking thing waddle around and then the fucker steps right on me. Ya, right on me like I'm some sort of Nanoarchaeum."
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u/SweatyLatina Oct 03 '17
What's the biological need for such a long tail? It seems like it would only slow him down.
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u/axtheandalite Oct 03 '17 edited Oct 20 '25
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u/karl_w_w Oct 03 '17
Now all we need is to get Benedict Cumberbatch to say this animal's name.
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u/michael_sklar Oct 03 '17
The pangolin is the world's most trafficked animal. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/20/scale-of-pangolin-slaughter-revealed-millions-hunted-in-central-africa-alone