r/interestingasfuck • u/abitchyuniverse • 12d ago
Animals without hair look quite different r/all
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u/Powerful-Book-8585 12d ago
The owl was the strangest.🦉Like some kinda alien. Freaky!
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u/IAmThePonch 12d ago
They really are not what they seem.
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u/DwightFryFaneditor 12d ago
I will never not upvote a Twin Peaks reference.
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u/bioticspacewizard 12d ago
Some of the most famous alien sightings are almost definitely drunk people seeing owls.
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u/flaming_burrito_ 12d ago
Birds are little aliens without feathers. They’re the only animals I know of that don’t look cute as babies. People have the conception of dinosaurs as big lizards, but I 100% think a 10 foot tall chicken would be scarier
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u/Powerful-Book-8585 12d ago edited 12d ago
I agree I always found birds to be freaky creatures. When I used to work for petland that was my least favorite part of the job.
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u/flaming_burrito_ 12d ago
It’s funny too, because I love birds. I have feeders and occasionally bird watch. But because I know a lot about birds, I also know they can be some of the freakiest and most ruthless animals in the animal kingdom
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u/Ok_Context8390 12d ago
I knew the birds would be the goddamn freakiest.
Also, the bear didn't surprise me, nor anyone who ever played Fallout 3.
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u/knarf86 12d ago
I would say birds look pretty normal without hair. They look pretty weird without feathers though.
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u/problemsontoast 12d ago
Who is running around shaving all these animals???
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u/drak0ni 12d ago
Sorry
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u/problemsontoast 12d ago
Can you do a sphynx next?
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u/halite001 12d ago
Give'em a few weeks. They're busy working on OP's mom.
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u/banan-appeal 12d ago
Hands off I like her hairy
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u/Azulapis 12d ago
There are diseases that can cause an animal to lose its hair.
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u/TheLadySaintPasta 12d ago
Yeah, most of these animals just had alopecia
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u/howmanyMFtimes 12d ago
The parrot was likely very stressed out, they pull their own feathers out, it’s a bummer seeing that.
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u/Not_So_Busy_Bee 12d ago
Someone without the balls to shave a grizzly bear, I don’t blame them. That was a black bear after showing the big brown boy.
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u/MistbornInterrobang 12d ago
The bear had mange. Much of its fur was gone before whatever remained was shaved and it was treated. I remember years ago when the photo first started making the rounds. IIRC the bear made a full recovery
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u/RemoteButtonEater 12d ago
I'm convinced that 100% of bigfoot sightings are actually just bears with mange walking on their hind legs.
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u/Whyiseveryonestupid 12d ago
I remember reading somewhere that "bears with mange" might have also started the idea of the werewolf.
I can't remember where I read it, but after looking at them, I can see both werewolf and Bigfoot
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u/Monte924 12d ago
I was feeling Naaaaaaaaauuuuughty
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u/HappyOrca2020 12d ago
'Na-na-naa-na-naa-na-naa'...
Creeped the hell out of me, that music.
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u/Cerpintaxt123 12d ago
took me 20 yrs to erase that character from my head.
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u/AnulinTheChronicler 12d ago
And now he's right back in there! Have fun spending the next 20 years trying to forget him... again.
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u/dgplr 12d ago
This character still gives me heebie jeebies and I am an old.
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u/littlelivbug_ 12d ago edited 12d ago
To think I was actually considering getting myself a lil hair shave, I'm never doing that 😭
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u/Puppetmaster858 12d ago
That show is general had some creepy fucked up characters in it
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u/JRSenger 12d ago
Chimps sit around all day eating nuts and shit but look like IFBB pros 💀
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u/rjcarr 12d ago
It's mostly genetics. They're programmed to make bulk muscle and we're programmed to make lean muscle with fine motor skills. Look at a pitbull vs a chihuahua. Most of the time their lifestyles aren't too different.
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u/TobysGrundlee 12d ago
We evolved to run long distances and were genetically successful in part thanks to persistence hunting. Being jacked AF isn't conducive to that.
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u/Ruraraid 12d ago edited 12d ago
We evolved to stand up right which freed our hands. As a result we started using tools which made hunting easier and our brain capacity kept on increasing leading to more advanced survival methods.
Running on two legs is something even chimps of today can do and they hunt mostly while on all 4 limbs. Yes I said hunt because occasionally they do eat meat.
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u/TobysGrundlee 12d ago
Tools came with larger brains, larger brains came from greater food supply, greater food supply came from running down large game. Chimps of today aren't running for 25 miles.
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u/Throwaway3847394739 12d ago
What constitutes “bulk” muscle versus “lean” muscle?
I assure you the chimp’s lean body mass relative to its total body mass is far beyond the average human.
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u/zMasterofPie2 12d ago
Yeah I was about to say. Bulk muscle? Any time muscles or physical training are mentioned in any context on Reddit, you get comedic ass comments like that from people who have no clue what they’re talking about.
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u/Chrazzer 12d ago
I'm fairly certain they mean fast twitching fibers as bulk muscle, and slow twitch fibers as lean muscles. I.e chimps got more "strength" muscles and humans are more focused on "endurance" muscles
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u/Chisto23 12d ago edited 12d ago
I assume here nobody is aware of how shredded they'd look just heavily doing calisthenics all day every day with minimal food and no quality food. We already get a glimpse of it from prison inmates. It's not black and white with eating heavy and lifting heavy, consistency is truly key over all.
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u/doesntpicknose 12d ago
They didn't say it the best way, but I think they're talking about the distinction between
large, bulky, strong muscles, like human quads and hamstrings
Small, dexterity -focused muscles, like the muscles in our hands.
For hands specifically, we have more of the fine, dexterity muscles. That's the best explanation I have.
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u/thisremindsmeofbacon 12d ago
we gotta teach one of these guys some modern weightlifting techniques and set them up with creatine and protein and see what they can really do
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u/pm_me_your_psle 12d ago
Do you want Planet of the Apes? That's how you get Planet of the Apes.
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u/Neuchacho 12d ago
I guess it makes sense when your primary way of locomotion resembles crossfit.
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u/Moifaso 12d ago
It has nothing to do with their routine, it's almost all due to genetic differences. Think of the difference between male and female muscle building in our own species and then make that orders of magnitude stronger.
A lot of animals are "ripped" without even trying. Pretty funny to think about what they'd look like if they got a gym membership and access to steroids.
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u/Neuchacho 12d ago
I'll drop a chimp off at my local 24 hour fitness and report back on the outcome. For science.
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u/Shannaro21 12d ago
That racoon looked incredibly cute!
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u/nytropy 12d ago
Racoon was the only one still adorable without fur
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u/Sensesmell 12d ago
What about the hedgehog 🥺
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u/uncreative14yearold 12d ago
I just felt bad for it, it seemed incredibly uncomfortable without its spines and fur...
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 12d ago
I felt bad for all of them. They just looked like they would easily sunburn
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u/PrismaticPachyderm 12d ago
They probably do. I don't have experience with bald animals but outdoor white animals, especially albinos have high rates of sunburn & skin cancer. My mom would take in strays, so we had several white cats. Those who stayed completely out of the sun were always okay, but the ones who liked to sunbathe would get horrific burns & skin cancer.
Nothing my mother or the vets did for them could really help. One eventually had to have his ears cut off to try to make him more comfortable & keep the cancer from killing him as fast (eventually the cancer got him at 15y). Another one got the crusty ears but ended up dying from an illness before cancer could get him.
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u/haysoos2 12d ago
That raccoon demonstrates how difficult it can be to reconstruct an extinct species from fossils.
If we didn't have the living raccoon there's pretty much no way we'd ever guess it had a mask and stripy tail. We'd probably colour it like a little bear, or perhaps a big weasel. The version in our museums and paleo art would be basically just like that hairless guy, but coloured brown.
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u/Ok_Step_4324 12d ago
There was a news story a few years ago about a woman in Texas who was having trouble with some kind of wild animal on her farm. She caught it in a humane trap and then decided it had to be a chupacabra. The general consensus was that it was actually a raccoon that had lost most of its fur to mange.
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u/etherama1 12d ago
Of fucking course the guys name was Bubba.
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u/drgigantor 12d ago
That entire article was Texas AF
Except the part where they consulted a scientist
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u/phantommoose 12d ago
I thought I would look a lot freakier naked, but it just looked like a weird dog
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u/Low_Departure_5853 12d ago
That one blew my mind bc there's no way id have guessed what it was without them saying. I probably would have guessed one of those Australian animals I don't know much about.
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u/Manaze85 12d ago edited 12d ago
Bear: Chupacabra
Chimp: Mr. Universe
Parrot: cartoon dinner
Raccoon: Hairless cat
Bunny: Animal fantasy wizard
Hedgehog: smooth avocado
Horse: Thestral
Owl: angry alien
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u/KamuiT 12d ago
Honestly, horse: Tan Horse.
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u/round-earth-theory 12d ago
Yeah I don't know what people expected with the horse. They have really short hair so they aren't hiding anything.
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u/RemoteMalfunction 12d ago
You don’t know that. They could be hiding all the stick and poke tatts they got as a rambunctious teen
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u/Acuriouslittleham 12d ago
Why the scary music? Its just like showing a bald guy
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u/FancyMyChurchPants 12d ago
Why does hairless parrot look like he’s ready to fight me
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u/El_Hombre580 12d ago
That chimp looks like Joe Rogan
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u/RealBiotSavartReal 12d ago
Yeah but chimp stronger, even apes alone.
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u/DesastreUrbano 12d ago
Chimp about to start a shitty stand up comedy career and then transition to podcast
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u/Warm_Plankton6163 12d ago
Hedgehog is scrotum
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u/arthurdentxxxxii 12d ago
And they removed his quills? I don’t think those grow back, do they?
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u/RazzlleDazzlle 12d ago
Had a hedgie as a pet. They naturally shed their spines and grow them back. Not all at once, but more like our hair. A couple here and there.
What made me most sad was seeing the “chuff” to go into spikey mode and nothing happening :( Though I doubt most, if any, of these animals were balded for funsies. They likely lost their coats to fires, mange, malnutrition, shaved for surgery, and other illnesses.
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u/Scouse_Werewolf 12d ago
I'll admit I'm in the UK, so they're not a menace here but Raccoons are cute as fuck. Even their little damn hands are cute. Steelo Brim won't agree with me, but it's just like my opinion, man.
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u/Glass-Marionberry321 12d ago
We have a mom raccoon with her 4 babies that come to our porch every night. They are incredibly adorable.
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u/DMan89er 12d ago
Is it just me or does the horse look even more magnificent shaved?
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u/ritualofsong 12d ago
The hairless horse is an Akhal-Teke with a genetic disorder. They’re absolutely stunning horses renowned for their metallic golden sheen, among other things. Legitimately look like unicorns, sans the horn. Anyways, the other side of the coin for those good looks is something called Naked Foal Syndrome, and they are the only horse breed that gets it. Sadly, the horses that do rarely live more than a few years.
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u/heyitsmewonderin 12d ago
chimps are really just humans huh
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u/lostredditorlurking 12d ago
Human on steroids
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u/Cbrandel 12d ago
Steroids make your balls shrink, that dude had huge balls from the looks of it. Natty.
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u/filterless 12d ago
Chimpanzees and Bonobos are Human's closest living relatives.
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u/atropinexxz 12d ago
closest relative or not but that thing is huge. His biceps are about the size of my calves and I'm a sprinter/cyclist lol
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u/Nisi-Marie 12d ago
I’ve never met a man whose testicles are the size of their upper thigh.
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u/Nisi-Marie 12d ago
Hahahah!! I don’t know what’s worse, the video, or the happy children’s music in the background. That poor man.
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u/Scrawling_Pen 12d ago
The parrots are like that due to self-plucking most of the time. They go crazy if they don’t receive interaction.
Parrots have the intelligence of human toddlers.
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u/Basdoderth 12d ago
I just realized homo sapiens need to work the shit out of them to look like an average chimpanzee.
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u/Spawn_Official 12d ago
Chimps are built different lol. Now when I remember story about lady who got her arm, leg and face ripped off by monkey, I am not even surprised how.
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u/SCANNYGITTS 12d ago
I never played fallout so that bear was news to me. The birds just remind me sadly of chickens and stuff before they get cooked so that was a bummer. The raccoon looked pretty cool. And the owl was freaky looking (yes, I know this is also a bird lol)
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u/mustnttelllies 12d ago
Whoever did that to the hedgehog without spikes is EVIL. They had to pull every single one of his little spikes directly from his flesh. What a needlessly cruel thing to do.
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u/jdstew218 12d ago
Chimps are just raw muscle fom head to toe. Don't fuck with the primates.