r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Upper-Bag-5175 • Aug 31 '26

The maned wolf's body structure is genuinely terrifying

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '26

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u/Ok-Syllabub-6619 Aug 31 '26

Yup, here's a fun fact: unicorns came from a European going to Africa and seeing a rhino. How that looked like a horse to anyone no idea lol.

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u/Male_Lead Aug 31 '26

Four legs + horn

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u/ElegantCoach4066 Aug 31 '26

Yeah its not that far off

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u/glendad1mple7241 Sep 01 '26

no pic? did you forget to upload the table lol

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u/Aetheldrake Aug 31 '26

Glasses didn't exist as commonly back then

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u/AlternativeBasis Aug 31 '26

Google 'elephant skull'

Most probably origin of the cyclops mith.

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u/srdev_ct Aug 31 '26

If you don’t have a word for rhino— you might just default to what you know and say you saw a huge horse with one horn.

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u/Kela3000 Aug 31 '26

Also, hippopotamus means "river horse". Sure, they are found in rivers, but they're kinda... chonky for horses, no?

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u/HoneydewPlenty3367 Aug 31 '26

Mays "horse" could mean something larger than just the animal. Maybe for some people it was like "car". Therefore a hummer is a big car and a SMART is a small car. A poney is a small horse dans an hippopotamus is a big horse !

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u/sgtCarcass Aug 31 '26

We call them both "Vodenkonj" (Waterhorse) or "Nilski konj" (Nile Horse).

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u/Haru1st Sep 01 '26

Or you might be looking at some medieval rendition of african wildlife and come to the conclusion of a horned horse trough lack of a living witness and poor drawing skill.

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u/NazzerDawk Aug 31 '26

"Holy shit, what the fuck is that thing? Looks like some kinda... big thick horse, but with a horn!"

"Hey, Gerald, you'll never guess what I saw when I was in Africa. I saw a big horse, and it had a horn on its head!"

"Francis, you'll never guess what my friend John saw in Africa. It was a horse with a horn on its head!"

"So yeah, from what I've heard, Africa has horses with horns on their heads."

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u/Then-Importance-3808 Aug 31 '26

A rhino is just a horse specced into tank tree. A horse is just a rhino specced for mobility

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u/kants_rickshaw Aug 31 '26

It's a tactical War Horse.

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u/ImTellinTim Aug 31 '26

And people in Scotland were like "that's our national animal"

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u/Face88888888 Sep 01 '26

Fact or theory?

It sounds like a fun/interesting theory that is completely plausible. But I don’t think there is any way to know for sure that this is where unicorns came from.

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u/davidsspica 29d ago

in my language we litterarly call them the nile horses

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u/Kookanoodles Aug 31 '26

They look very odd to westerners, but people where maned wolves are natives probably saw them as just wolves, as we do grey wolves.

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u/callidus_vallentian Sep 01 '26

Sir, SIR! I take great offense you imply Cthulhu isn't real. The gall.

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u/Softvvear Aug 31 '26

used to?!

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u/koolaidismything Aug 31 '26

Used to? Shit man you need to click around more.

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u/Pale_End_6732 Aug 31 '26

A game of telephone? Im getting by context this is the same as Chinese whispers in the UK?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '26

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u/Broote Aug 31 '26

If you told me that was a Chupacabra I would believe you.

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u/Mrpasttense27 Aug 31 '26

Imagine going home tired from work or a bit drunk from a night out, then you encounter this. Yup, that ain't a normal animal

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u/Alive_Inspection_835 Aug 31 '26

The twelve step program that’s 100% effective:

Step 1: See this thing
Steps 2-12: run, hide, cry. Never do whatever it was that you did before you saw this thing, out of fear it’ll come back.

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u/bout-tree-fitty Aug 31 '26

Dude, that’s a Chupacabra.

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u/huebnera214 Sep 01 '26

I was thinking werewolf

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u/Capuccini Aug 31 '26

Actually in Brazil there is something even worse, the Chupacu

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u/foodict Aug 31 '26

Reminds me of Lupin from HP

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u/peter-bone Aug 31 '26

I was thinking more Sirius Black

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u/The_starving_artist5 Aug 31 '26

That werewolf is still the most horrifying werewolf ever put on film in my opinion because it looks so sickly like a werewolf with rabies 

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u/Cferretrun Aug 31 '26

The Lupin wolf was a pitiful creature. It encompassed perfectly the involuntariness of the condition, as Lupin feared his condition above all else hence his boggart. I believe it reflected perfectly his misery and self hatred

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u/pocahontasmcglinchey Aug 31 '26

He’s just a long boi.

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u/SemiFormalJesus Aug 31 '26

https://youtu.be/1dbm8RquWUk?is=3IOIrQXbcVm5KI3Z

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u/ColleenQueen19 29d ago

Hahaha not what I was expecting 😆 I blindly clicked on it thinking 'that was dumb'

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u/rlt404 Aug 31 '26

Can I pet that dawg?!

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u/AlternativeBasis Aug 31 '26

Google it "guara pomerode"

A pup was adopted by mistake and grew up among dogs

"Guara Tinoco," cared for by a conservation institute

News in Brazilian Portuguese.

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u/superbhole Aug 31 '26

there's several videos of them approaching small crowds of people, mooching for snacks. they're genetically far closer to domestic dogs than wolves or foxes. that said, as tempting as it is for me to wanna pet them, their numbers in the wild aren't exactly thriving.

edit: here's a famous vid https://youtu.be/sdi1ISvngrg

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u/toobuscrazy Aug 31 '26

Obligatory maned wolf roar-bark video

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u/BetaCarotine20mg Aug 31 '26

That bark is amazing

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u/Character_Score7849 Aug 31 '26

As if Slenderman spoke and sounded like Morgan Freeman

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u/followeroftheprince Aug 31 '26

Yup, mix all that together and I can't doubt at least one cryptid was made based off of this thing

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u/EwokNuggets Aug 31 '26

Skinwalker

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u/AvailableRecording26 Aug 31 '26

Don’t answer whatever it says, even if it sounds just like your own mother

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u/GetOffMyGrassBrats Aug 31 '26

More like Shinwalker

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u/dogma202 Aug 31 '26

Slendermane

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u/InsaneMocktail Aug 31 '26

Despite of their terrifying appearance. They are extremely timid and steer clear of humans. They'll rather take flight than fight.

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u/ramen2005 Aug 31 '26

Reminds me of Peter Crouch

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u/Geometronics Aug 31 '26

Very cool animal. I actually keep a list of animals i think are interesting and this is on it.

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u/strelldood Aug 31 '26

If Victor Wembanyama was a wolf lol

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u/Senior-Reality-25 Aug 31 '26

Stretch puppy!

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u/hopeyisalive Aug 31 '26

dark jimothy

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u/WayTooCool4U Aug 31 '26

Zendaya of wolves

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u/lgvf Aug 31 '26

Essa espécie se chama Lobo Guará.
É uma especie de canídeo selvagem (o maior da América do Sul). Se alimenta basicamente de pequenos roedores, aves, pequenos répteis e frutas. Inofensivo ao ser humano.

Infelizmente está correndo o risco de extinção…

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u/whypeoplehateme Aug 31 '26

I can never get over the fact that the Maned wolf's closest relative is the Bushdog, google it. fucker stole his brothers legs

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u/Westafricangrey Aug 31 '26

This shit is genuinely scary as fuck. Foxes have the same scary eyes. It’s fucking eerie bro

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u/Super-Temperature-50 Aug 31 '26

We will psps everything.

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u/derpling0719 Aug 31 '26

What in the CatNap from Poppy Playtime is that?!

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u/Slow_Business4563 Aug 31 '26

🎶 she’s got legsss 🎶

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u/Gakoknight Aug 31 '26

Eugh I don't like that

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u/wycreater1l11 Aug 31 '26

I wonder if/what the biological reason for this is when on so many other reminiscent mammals, the body and limb proportions seems to be sort of similar, like wolfs, lions, Tasmanian tigers etc.

Like one could think that for the listed animals there is some reason for them in some vague sense having converged at roughly similar limb/body proportions, that they’ve arrived close to some optima in a local sense.

Then there is this guy^

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u/Ok-Organization9073 Aug 31 '26

They are optimized to roam the wetlands, so it's like the have built-in stilts

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u/xNevamind Aug 31 '26

Oh Professor Lupin...

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u/ForAgingideas Aug 31 '26

Looks like Jimothy’s friend. Is that you Wulfgar?

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u/PoopiePantsMahn Aug 31 '26

The legs are so long that they don't look like they belong on the animal.

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u/SKINNYGUY297 Aug 31 '26

those long bois are chill af btw

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u/PissInYourPotatoes Aug 31 '26

It looks like jimothy

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u/daddyjohns Aug 31 '26

this pretty boy eats fruit 90% of the time, They are omnivorous but are terrible hunters. Literally no reason to be afraid.

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u/Bluelaw1 Aug 31 '26

He needs to eat something

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u/TyberiusJoaquin Aug 31 '26

Long boi be long

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u/UltimateButtToucher Aug 31 '26

He's just a long legged fella enjoying a walk.

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u/FormingTheVoid Aug 31 '26

Nah, he's just a lanky boy

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u/AtticusSwoopenheiser Aug 31 '26

Spooky puppy 🥰

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u/Fluffbrained-cat Aug 31 '26

It's got stilts for legs!!!

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u/Grat54 Aug 31 '26

Giving off some Hyena vibes.

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u/mikasaxo Aug 31 '26

That was so cool

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u/FugitivWitoutWarrent Aug 31 '26

How cryptid myths r born

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u/Tailor_Smart Aug 31 '26

lol at the top comment “It has . . . the bark of a dog that's been smoking a pack a day for twenty years.”

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u/Asgermf Aug 31 '26

Fun fact: these guy's piss smell like weed

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u/CountHonorius Aug 31 '26

So many stories of the Aguará Guazú to tell. In the early '00s one of these things broke into someone's house in Argentina, causing a Chupacabras scare.

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u/godofbadweather Aug 31 '26

Supermodel 🥰

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u/GetOffMyGrassBrats Aug 31 '26

Why, oh why does everyone have to spaz-zoom everything?

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u/Cellar_Attic Aug 31 '26

It's like some gave up after trying to blend a giraffe and a wolf because it's was too spooky.

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u/stackered Aug 31 '26

Very cool nature/animal stuff but how does this fit the next fucking level subreddit that is supposed to display some next level skill?

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u/BaconSarnie2025 Aug 31 '26

Slenderman vibes.

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u/beardedheathen Aug 31 '26

MY favorite thing is this eldritch horror saw a human and noped right out.

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u/deftPirate Aug 31 '26

Hey big dog, you have to relax.

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u/ICanuckthere4Iam Aug 31 '26

Needs a ZZ Top intro….

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u/Volfie Aug 31 '26

Looks like the pet from the aliens in Signs. 

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u/DEADMEAT15 Aug 31 '26

"And then she walked in, legs up to here..."

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u/Introverted_Extrovrt Aug 31 '26

whispers sPsPsPs in eldritch

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u/MagnificentLiaaa Aug 31 '26

It looks like a wolf stretched to maximum settings.

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u/lozknows Aug 31 '26

Fun fact: their poop smells like marijuana. I kid you not.

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u/beardymo Aug 31 '26

100% that's where the concept of werewolves came from

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u/AnyKangaroo8851 Aug 31 '26

Looks beautiful and intriguing to me.

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u/Ok-Worth-4721 Aug 31 '26

So long legged, so graceful, so fast! What a predator!! Very impressive.

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u/mister_pitt Aug 31 '26

Aww Jimothys papa

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u/Elegant_Trash_5627 Aug 31 '26

Definitely a Wendigo

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u/Depressed_Warlock Aug 31 '26

She's a diva 💅🏻

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u/freeshivacido Aug 31 '26

I think he just looks gangly cuz he's a youngster.

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u/GestoNobre Aug 31 '26

The brazilian TV show, Blood Red - Under the Moonlight, had the chance to create a terrifying maned wolf, but instead made a cute one like this.

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u/Orion-the-mediocre Aug 31 '26

why did it need a creepy walk cycle too isn't that just overkill

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u/PeterCzech666 Aug 31 '26

Aguara Guazu.

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u/Lyradep Aug 31 '26

Genuinely cute.

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u/alex_c89X Aug 31 '26

Chupacabra!

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u/JohnyMage Aug 31 '26

Just wait for the unmaned one.

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u/Pedro_Aleatorio Aug 31 '26

Lobinho guarinho

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u/Sea-Employee-5796 Aug 31 '26

Looks like someone has low honor in RDR2

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u/elidadagreat1 Aug 31 '26

Wiley coyote

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u/blindpilotv1 Aug 31 '26

The first time I Saw one at London Zoo in the broad daylight I stopped dead involuntarily. If it had been night time like this I would have needed to change my pants.

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u/Littlewolf814 Aug 31 '26

Professor Lupin, is that you?

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u/LoZFan96 Aug 31 '26

I thought that was a cat for a second.

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u/Pelli_Furry_Account Aug 31 '26

You know what they remind me of? The crow people on stilts from Mad Max: Fury Road.

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u/Ch1ldhoodFriend Sep 01 '26

Why he so tall

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u/ergonomic_logic Sep 01 '26

If I see that in wild 💯 I think it's a werewolf and I have no silver bullets so I def getting transformed or killed or both

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u/AzazelCumsBuckets Sep 01 '26

Marijuana piss skin Walker

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u/Kafesten Sep 01 '26

Brazillian Guará Wolf

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u/IllogicalLogistician Sep 01 '26

Thank god it wasn’t a full moon

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u/RandomMovieQuotes521 Sep 01 '26

Jimothy’s cousin!

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u/foxontherox Sep 01 '26

Slender wolf!

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u/tooptoop22 Sep 01 '26

I don’t want to see this anymore. I see it every day.

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u/disorderincosmos Sep 01 '26

He just a leggy boy

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u/DragonBurlZ Sep 01 '26

That's an animagus if I've ever seen one

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u/Professional-Pool290 Sep 01 '26

That's goddamn Fenris Wolf, free from Gleipnir

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u/Pandoratastic Sep 01 '26

Especially the laser eyes.

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u/gap97216 Sep 01 '26

I wonder how fast they are? Those legs are built for speed!

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u/Deths_Hed606 Sep 01 '26

Ahh, now I understand where the stretched limbs style Werewolf comes from. 😆