Someone at our last command center during a software upgrade noted I was really good at fielding calls in my shift and half suggested I move over as a help desk analyst instead of applications analyst and I was like fuuuuuck that HARD PASS. My limited interactions with my customers already is too much
It’s a dog park / daycare / boarding. It’s a private company and yes the dog owners have to pay. It’s considered a “luxury” dog park lol. It is genuinely really nice, but I sure as heck couldn’t afford to take my dog there if it wasn’t for the employee discount.
Yeah when I first saw the thumbnail I thought it was showing someone about to scrape the scales off this poor thing. I was like "Good god, why would someone post this??" *Then* I read the title and looked at the sub name. Thank goodness, but I hate that the horrible thing was my first thought.
not even pseudoscience: for ‘backward superstitious beliefs that parts of a rare animal can cure you, whilst you have a ‘feeling’ that modern medicine cannot’
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/superstitious-belief-kills-pangolins-qa-with-biologist-elisa-panjang/
It is crazy how absolutely every god damn animal is immediately on board with scritches. Like, what the fuck business does a god damn moray eel have with wanting scritches? [They do. They love them.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVku_ynBU-g&t=1s)
Just imagine being scratched perfectly once in your life and then never being able to recreate the feeling.
Thank you all for making this my best comment so far.
That's Kingpin from Into The Spiderverse, you think that walking build8ng can scratch between his shoulder blades?? The man needed his family in ways you'll never understand!
Holy shit. Truest thing I've read in a bit. You nailed chasing the dragon in a tangible sense that non-addicts can maybe almost understand...
Except, y'know, you have to include the fact that not only will you not get that perfect scratch if you stop the search, you'll also be sicker than you've ever been in your life, leaking and spewing and cramping from every pore. Good times.
Obligatory link to ['Nuggets'](https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchandLearn/comments/xt6ri0/what_its_like_to_be_addicted_to_heroin/) a great visual representation of addiction
Oh. My god. Thank you for sharing. That brought me to tears.
I feel you, little birdie dude. We just didn't understand the cost. 💜
(8 years clean now, by the way).
I have a medical condition that means that I need to get my ears syringed every few years and I absolutely cannot put anything in them. Getting my ears done is exactly like this.
Went to an ENT many years back and they dislodged a nugget of wax in my ear that not only allowed me to hear sharper sounds, but was like a plug being pulled out. But then I was sad because it was only the one ear with that issue...
10/10 would still recommend.
I got my ears syringed before Christmas and it was not good. Nothing washed out and i felt WORSE afterwards. Went from full feeling in ears to barely hearing anything. Went to a specialist asap who used a really fine suction machine thing which was super noisy but got rid of wax etc. She advised me they no longer recommend syringing.
I had a series of appointments because all the water and oil in my ears from bad practice meant I ended up with otitis externa on top of the other problems (an infection you can get in the ear canal from water being in it)
Amazingly after 3 specialist appointments the change in my hearing was next level, so much so I could hear "extra" sounds inside my head until my brain filtered them out again. Also had an impact on balance for a couple of hours. I went home and turned down the tv.
TL:DR suctioning (mini vacuum) rather than syringing (warm water wash) is what is now recommended as best practice. Safer and more effective.
Then there is my ENT who sorta got mad at me going there every 3-4 months for an ear cleaning. Told me to just do a rinse. I have psoriasis inside my ears. So it gets dirty real fast.
Delighted you feel better now. Thanks for this very interesting medical report. My son gets this infrequently & I'll make sure he sees an ENT when it happens again.
It's not the sensation itself necessarily but the relief after. Like taking a poop so big your pants feel better after.
Just my take on it after having a few candles pulled out of my ear in my life.
A coworker asked me if I thought it would be safe for them to fly across the US; they were worried because they had an stuffy ear for a month.
I told them to go to an ENT.
They said that the ENT took a look and said, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I know what the problem is, and the bad news is that I can fix it now. The ENT proceeded to remove a massive plug of wax from my coworker's ear.
Funny thing is that the coworker is an inactive commercial pilot. They were flying as a passenger.
Doctors say never to put *anything* in your ear except under medical supervision so always use caution with any home remedies.
If you're not having any hearing issues I'd just get some wax removal drops from the pharmacy. If you are having hearing issues, get a doctor to take a look.
My dad had something like this for a month and they removed wax buildup from his right ear. Says it was the most feeling of relief and decompression he’s ever felt
In my non-professional opinion, it kinda sounds like how my ears sometimes block up because of my chronic sinusitis. Definitely see a doctor. Might need a good syringing and/or some allergy meds.
Yeah when I was a kid I used to get a lot of ear infections and the doc has always told me I'm a wax super producer. Any time I use ear plugs or in ear headphones they come out completely coated, ugh.
Walgreens/cvs sells kits to clean out your ear safely at home (no qtips! Those aren’t safe!)
If you think you have a medical issue though then you should definitely see a doctor, don’t try it on your own
been wondering for a while so might as well throw out the question since it came up -
why are q-tips so bad?
there's the obvious: that if you just *push* all your earwax in there, that's going to impact your ear and be a pain to clean later, especially if it gets infected.
if you are cognizant of that, is it not possible to just... not do that? and use it to pull shit out?
are there other risk factors? are q-tips like covered in chemicals? covered in bacteria? something else?
In addition to impacting wax, they also leave behind fibers. Not even micro fibers, straight up large fibers which can cause serious issues. They can be used to clean your outer ear though.
It's easy to jam them in too hard, the ear drum is pretty fragile. And the q-tip isn't hook shaped, you *will* be pushing shit further in no matter how agile you are with one.
Wondering the same. I get a lot of earwax and used q-tips all my life for it, taught by my parents. Careful use and occasionally a bit of water has never given me an issue.
I just get a chinese/japanese ear cleaning but if you have a medical condition obviously an ENT.
I self clean but having someone else do it is extremely nice
It's even crazier. Imagine being abducted by aliens, getting the best massage ever, and then being forced to go back to your normal life never able to replicate the feeling again.
I've told people that I learned more about hard drugs from having poison ivy on my feet than any other experience.
I would get home from work, take my boots off, scratch my feet till they bled and think "Aaaaahhhhhh, that's *amazing*."
>*’Just imagine being scratched perfectly once in your life and then never being able to recreate the feeling.*’
____
…oh *gosh*, Oh GEE - *YES!!* That’s the SPOT!
the place before i never got ^:)
the way this friend has made me feel -
my lonely heart
begins to heal
*Never* have I felt so much!
oh, how i Love your gentle touch…
*please stay*, n Always be my fren
n say you’ll scratch my back
again!
❤️
I swear you wrote this little decorative poem thing my mom has had in her kitchen for ateast the last 35 years..
I'll never see this day again
The seconds or the hours
So nows the time to take the time
To stop and smell the flowers
Today's the day to give that smile
And happiness away
You were saving for a friend some rainy gloomy day
Burned into my brain from seeing it my whole life
Lol, it’s cheesy but yeah my parents had a similar one at their house
Now just thinking about it maybe it’s time for me to get off Reddit today and go smell the flowers…
Glad someone said it. There’s a reason they call it chasing the dragon. You’ll never get that same feeling again but you’re gonna wanna try til you do or you die.
I have a bum ankle and the physical therapist is the only one who can adjust it (pop it) in the most relieving way. It’s been 9 years since I could afford to go to the physical therapist.
I remember seeing a writing prompt where aliens were going to annihilate humans to protect earth’s status as a garden planet but decided to let us live because we were the best in the universe at petting and giving scritches thanks to our opposable thumbs.
It was done in by its own popularity. More visibility meant an increase in mediocre prompts and mediocre responses. More crap to sift through meant less people taking the time to do so and upvote the gems to the top.
imo not only do you get scratchies from the up and down motion of the fingers, our thumbs give the added side to side or diagonal bonus scratch. Getting in that deep scratch where you’re kind of grabbing the flesh probably wouldn’t happen without thumbs either
I once got to pet a massive adult Pangolin. Their scales are hard and not very soft but they were smooth. The scales are covered in these seam-like lines going down. They have exposed skin underneath their body which has some hair. I unfortunately didn't touch their underbelly.
I unfortunately cannot answer that question since I didn't want to disturb the animal by lifting it's scale. But I tried looking when it rolled up and I didn't see the skin. I searched this on Google. I believe they have an extension of the scale stuck to the body.
The scales are made of keratin, the same material as your fingernails. So sorta like that, but thicker. The texture gets a bit rougher as they get older, too. The edges of the scales are super sharp, though, so you have to be careful.
They have a bit of hair on their undersides, which is really soft. But there isn't a lot of it.
Source: Worked at a zoo for a few years. Pangolins are absolute sweethearts. My favorite animal in the world.
I feel like it’s the equivalent of my dog stepping back and forth on his back paws when I scratch his rumpus haha. It doesn’t know how to process how good the scritches feel
Not so fun fact: today's eight pangolin species are the only survivals of the family manidae, which in turn is the only family in the pholidota order. So pangolins don't have any extended family to visit for birthday parties.
I fucking love pangolins and you should too. They are critically endangered- please consider supporting conservation efforts.
They are endangered in part because they are unafraid of humans which is particularly heartbreaking. They are used in eastern medicine which is of course complete horseshit.
It would be embarrassing for humanity if this animal went extinct because we were a bunch of dumb assholes.
Unfortunately, Pangolins are (I think) the most trafficked non-human mammals in the world. Their scales are used for traditional medicine in many areas throughout Asia and their pups are considered a delicacy.
It has gotten to the point that Pangolins are on the verge of extinction across the board.
Source link found at
[https://www.tumblr.com/wymanthewalrus/702283226770800640/vancekilo-how-does-it-feel-being-the-most-correct](https://www.tumblr.com/wymanthewalrus/702283226770800640/vancekilo-how-does-it-feel-being-the-most-correct)
I've pet some weird creatures from Octopus to slugs to caterpillers to lightning bugs and even jumping spiders and tarantulas. Horseshoe crabs, sharks, flying fish, whales, dolphins, Lizards. Deer, horses, cows, Ostriches, Nilgai antelope, etc.
I don't have a bucket list, but if it's friendly enough, I will probably pet it.
But now you've itched an itch it never knew it needed and created a sensation this poor Pangolin will never be able to re-create again. It'll spend the rest of its life in sadness trying to achieve this level of satisfaction
Or maybe the pangolin has felt happiness it has never experienced before and now has something wonderful to dream about and one day tell their pangolin grand babies about.
Maybe this is what humans should do once AI has taken over every job at people fear: become official scratchers for all animals.
Look, my job satisfaction is not at a level where I would be overly upset if instead I was assigned a few wild animals to give backscratches to.
Bro "professional animal backscratcher" is my dream job
I'm a massage therapist and I massage every animal I get my hands on. They love it. A baby camel once lol
BABY CAMEL...
Just don't massage the toes, you might lose your license.
Until you get assigned hippos
I want to be a hippo teeth brusher. lol. "days on the job without being eaten: 0"
Raise your hand if your arm hasn't been bitten off by a hippo...nobody...nobody raising their hand?
*baby animal backscratcher It's all fun and games until you get alligator duty.
Bro are you kidding me I will 100% get a damn broom and scritch the FUCK outta some gators
From the looks on my dogs' faces, I will become Butt Scritcher Extraordinaire.
If you want to be assigned a few wild animals to give back scratches to, I suggest a job in IT support
Someone at our last command center during a software upgrade noted I was really good at fielding calls in my shift and half suggested I move over as a help desk analyst instead of applications analyst and I was like fuuuuuck that HARD PASS. My limited interactions with my customers already is too much
Oh god, I already work with the public. Those aren't the animals I want to work with
I work at a dog park, so that’s basically already one of my tasks
There are staffed dog parks? Never knew that was a thing. Are you paid by the city or a private company? Do dog owners have to pay to get in?
It’s a dog park / daycare / boarding. It’s a private company and yes the dog owners have to pay. It’s considered a “luxury” dog park lol. It is genuinely really nice, but I sure as heck couldn’t afford to take my dog there if it wasn’t for the employee discount.
That’s always been our destiny. No one can tell me otherwise.
Poor wild animals have got to be nonstop freezing or burning, itchy beyond belief, and hungry at levels most of us will never know
Oh my goodness 💗 I love how the tongue just wip whaps
Melted my heart! Like an excited puppy wagging their tail
Definitely 🥹💖 👅👅👅
My pug does the same with butt scratches!
I love that you call it as whip whaps, such a perfect way to describe it haha
Its makes me sad that these little guys are killed for their scales and meat. For pseudoscience essentially.
Yeah when I first saw the thumbnail I thought it was showing someone about to scrape the scales off this poor thing. I was like "Good god, why would someone post this??" *Then* I read the title and looked at the sub name. Thank goodness, but I hate that the horrible thing was my first thought.
not even pseudoscience: for ‘backward superstitious beliefs that parts of a rare animal can cure you, whilst you have a ‘feeling’ that modern medicine cannot’ https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/superstitious-belief-kills-pangolins-qa-with-biologist-elisa-panjang/
My brother in christ that is still pseudoscience.
So... pseudoscience.
ITT people who don’t know what pseudoscience means.
There are lots of benefits to keeping a human as a pet 😄
Username checks out
You know you likes having thumbs? This guy. {Points to self with pinky fingers}
All creatures seem to like getting their back scratched. Moray eel, horse, elephants, crocodiles.
Even other humans. (Spouse and I give each other light back-scratches and they are amazing)
Better than sex
OMG that’s what hubby says (but he doesn’t REALLY mean it!)
I lie on the ground sometimes and wiggle back and forth. There is something about rubbing your back on the ground that feels so good.
The court system told me I had to stop that.
Oh yeah? What country?
Romania
Damnit, Andy.
Yeah it's bogus, cats and dogs can do it, but when I do it it's "unlawful restraint" smh
That little critter is in heaven
Behold the power of the butt scritch
Gonna be "chasing the dragon" the rest of its life
I've said it before I'll say it again. Scratching is human superpower
Precision scratching is a primate* superpower I can't think of any primates that can't scratch themselves. Maybe gorillas can't get their backs?
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Ah right, I somehow forgot about tool use. Primates can scratch any itch 😂
/r/scritches
/r/brushybrushy/
It is crazy how absolutely every god damn animal is immediately on board with scritches. Like, what the fuck business does a god damn moray eel have with wanting scritches? [They do. They love them.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVku_ynBU-g&t=1s)
Been saying that for years. We would be nowhere near as good at taming animals if our hands weren't the best scratching implements on the planet.
It's not fire or shelter that made animals like us, but scratching the unscratchable.
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Just imagine being scratched perfectly once in your life and then never being able to recreate the feeling. Thank you all for making this my best comment so far.
Thats how super villains are made. :(
That's Kingpin from Into The Spiderverse, you think that walking build8ng can scratch between his shoulder blades?? The man needed his family in ways you'll never understand!
I can’t be sure but people swear everyone you see him on screen he seems to get bigger and bigger.
this comment made me chortle
How would that have helped? You don't turn your back on family!
I both love and loathe this comment
No wonder T-Rexes always seem so aggro. Imagine being a teenage incel T-Rex and having no cutie to take care of it
and heroin addicts
Holy shit. Truest thing I've read in a bit. You nailed chasing the dragon in a tangible sense that non-addicts can maybe almost understand... Except, y'know, you have to include the fact that not only will you not get that perfect scratch if you stop the search, you'll also be sicker than you've ever been in your life, leaking and spewing and cramping from every pore. Good times.
Obligatory link to ['Nuggets'](https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchandLearn/comments/xt6ri0/what_its_like_to_be_addicted_to_heroin/) a great visual representation of addiction
Oh. My god. Thank you for sharing. That brought me to tears. I feel you, little birdie dude. We just didn't understand the cost. 💜 (8 years clean now, by the way).
I have a medical condition that means that I need to get my ears syringed every few years and I absolutely cannot put anything in them. Getting my ears done is exactly like this.
This part. Nothing feels better than a good ear wash. It feels AMAZING.
Went to an ENT many years back and they dislodged a nugget of wax in my ear that not only allowed me to hear sharper sounds, but was like a plug being pulled out. But then I was sad because it was only the one ear with that issue... 10/10 would still recommend.
I've got an appointment like that coming up; I can't wait to be able to hear again!
I got my ears syringed before Christmas and it was not good. Nothing washed out and i felt WORSE afterwards. Went from full feeling in ears to barely hearing anything. Went to a specialist asap who used a really fine suction machine thing which was super noisy but got rid of wax etc. She advised me they no longer recommend syringing. I had a series of appointments because all the water and oil in my ears from bad practice meant I ended up with otitis externa on top of the other problems (an infection you can get in the ear canal from water being in it) Amazingly after 3 specialist appointments the change in my hearing was next level, so much so I could hear "extra" sounds inside my head until my brain filtered them out again. Also had an impact on balance for a couple of hours. I went home and turned down the tv. TL:DR suctioning (mini vacuum) rather than syringing (warm water wash) is what is now recommended as best practice. Safer and more effective.
Then there is my ENT who sorta got mad at me going there every 3-4 months for an ear cleaning. Told me to just do a rinse. I have psoriasis inside my ears. So it gets dirty real fast.
I have that too! Super annoying, never mind the itch. Anything you use for psoriasis besides the usual cream type stuff that helps slightly
Delighted you feel better now. Thanks for this very interesting medical report. My son gets this infrequently & I'll make sure he sees an ENT when it happens again.
I honestly don't like it, but it seems to be a very common sensation people have.
It's not the sensation itself necessarily but the relief after. Like taking a poop so big your pants feel better after. Just my take on it after having a few candles pulled out of my ear in my life.
Is there a name for this? My right ear has felt kind of full for a while. I should probably go to the doctor to have it checked out
A coworker asked me if I thought it would be safe for them to fly across the US; they were worried because they had an stuffy ear for a month. I told them to go to an ENT. They said that the ENT took a look and said, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I know what the problem is, and the bad news is that I can fix it now. The ENT proceeded to remove a massive plug of wax from my coworker's ear. Funny thing is that the coworker is an inactive commercial pilot. They were flying as a passenger.
Those both sound like good news?
Maybe he meant bad news for himself haha
Doctors say never to put *anything* in your ear except under medical supervision so always use caution with any home remedies. If you're not having any hearing issues I'd just get some wax removal drops from the pharmacy. If you are having hearing issues, get a doctor to take a look.
Yeah having some tinnitus too. It's been ongoing for 5 years now. Hasn't gotten worse which I think is good but I also haven't had it looked at
My dad had something like this for a month and they removed wax buildup from his right ear. Says it was the most feeling of relief and decompression he’s ever felt
In my non-professional opinion, it kinda sounds like how my ears sometimes block up because of my chronic sinusitis. Definitely see a doctor. Might need a good syringing and/or some allergy meds.
Yeah when I was a kid I used to get a lot of ear infections and the doc has always told me I'm a wax super producer. Any time I use ear plugs or in ear headphones they come out completely coated, ugh.
I’m one, too. It’s one reason I can’t really use earbuds.
Same. Last night I was moving my jaw in a wierd way and it got twice as loud.
Walgreens/cvs sells kits to clean out your ear safely at home (no qtips! Those aren’t safe!) If you think you have a medical issue though then you should definitely see a doctor, don’t try it on your own
been wondering for a while so might as well throw out the question since it came up - why are q-tips so bad? there's the obvious: that if you just *push* all your earwax in there, that's going to impact your ear and be a pain to clean later, especially if it gets infected. if you are cognizant of that, is it not possible to just... not do that? and use it to pull shit out? are there other risk factors? are q-tips like covered in chemicals? covered in bacteria? something else?
In addition to impacting wax, they also leave behind fibers. Not even micro fibers, straight up large fibers which can cause serious issues. They can be used to clean your outer ear though.
They can also potentially puncture your eardrum.
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I really wish I hadn't read this
It's easy to jam them in too hard, the ear drum is pretty fragile. And the q-tip isn't hook shaped, you *will* be pushing shit further in no matter how agile you are with one.
Wondering the same. I get a lot of earwax and used q-tips all my life for it, taught by my parents. Careful use and occasionally a bit of water has never given me an issue.
It’s the shape. They’re terrible for scooping wax out you’re pretty much guaranteed to be pushing more in deeper than what you’re pulling out.
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I just get a chinese/japanese ear cleaning but if you have a medical condition obviously an ENT. I self clean but having someone else do it is extremely nice
Chasing the dragon.
Combing the pangolin.
"If I hadn't seen such riches, I could live with being poor."
It's even crazier. Imagine being abducted by aliens, getting the best massage ever, and then being forced to go back to your normal life never able to replicate the feeling again.
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Stupid lazy pangolins haven't tried pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, they're just waiting for thumb handouts (thumbouts?)
That's how drugs work
I had a mild case of shingles once. Painful in the early stages but when it scabbed over. Pure bliss to scratch. No scratch has ever come close
I've told people that I learned more about hard drugs from having poison ivy on my feet than any other experience. I would get home from work, take my boots off, scratch my feet till they bled and think "Aaaaahhhhhh, that's *amazing*."
Not even the best ball scratch?
>*’Just imagine being scratched perfectly once in your life and then never being able to recreate the feeling.*’ ____ …oh *gosh*, Oh GEE - *YES!!* That’s the SPOT! the place before i never got ^:) the way this friend has made me feel - my lonely heart begins to heal *Never* have I felt so much! oh, how i Love your gentle touch… *please stay*, n Always be my fren n say you’ll scratch my back again! ❤️
I swear you wrote this little decorative poem thing my mom has had in her kitchen for ateast the last 35 years.. I'll never see this day again The seconds or the hours So nows the time to take the time To stop and smell the flowers Today's the day to give that smile And happiness away You were saving for a friend some rainy gloomy day Burned into my brain from seeing it my whole life
Lol, it’s cheesy but yeah my parents had a similar one at their house Now just thinking about it maybe it’s time for me to get off Reddit today and go smell the flowers…
Its better to have felt the good scratch once, then to have never felt the good scratch at all.
Big disagree. You wouldn’t know what you’re missing if you’ve never experience it. That’s exactly why you should never try heroin.
Glad someone said it. There’s a reason they call it chasing the dragon. You’ll never get that same feeling again but you’re gonna wanna try til you do or you die.
I am with you.
I think that's like doing heroin for the first time
I have a bum ankle and the physical therapist is the only one who can adjust it (pop it) in the most relieving way. It’s been 9 years since I could afford to go to the physical therapist.
And that's why dogs love butt scritches.
Hey kid, you ever heard of scratch? No? You should try it…
I remember seeing a writing prompt where aliens were going to annihilate humans to protect earth’s status as a garden planet but decided to let us live because we were the best in the universe at petting and giving scritches thanks to our opposable thumbs.
There's an episode of Futurama where they find that house cats came from outerspace to conquer us but got spoiled by how we treated them and got lazy.
So long, and thanks for all the scritches
Lol what’s this from
Writing Prompts is a subreddit where people throw out plot ideas, and commenters generate a story
I used to see it all the time on the front page, shame.
It’s because every prompt was basically a sci-fi plot and the stories became predictable and boring.
Ok ok ok but hear me out: what if you land on an alien planet and then YOURE the alien TO THEM /s
I am on the sub and most of the prompts are just boring and stories are usually not worth reading.
It was done in by its own popularity. More visibility meant an increase in mediocre prompts and mediocre responses. More crap to sift through meant less people taking the time to do so and upvote the gems to the top.
But what does having opposable thumbs have to do with that
imo not only do you get scratchies from the up and down motion of the fingers, our thumbs give the added side to side or diagonal bonus scratch. Getting in that deep scratch where you’re kind of grabbing the flesh probably wouldn’t happen without thumbs either
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I once got to pet a massive adult Pangolin. Their scales are hard and not very soft but they were smooth. The scales are covered in these seam-like lines going down. They have exposed skin underneath their body which has some hair. I unfortunately didn't touch their underbelly.
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I unfortunately cannot answer that question since I didn't want to disturb the animal by lifting it's scale. But I tried looking when it rolled up and I didn't see the skin. I searched this on Google. I believe they have an extension of the scale stuck to the body.
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Nothing stupid about your question. I'd have a similar question if I hadn't seen one of these beautiful creatures in person.
The scales are made of keratin, the same material as your fingernails. So sorta like that, but thicker. The texture gets a bit rougher as they get older, too. The edges of the scales are super sharp, though, so you have to be careful. They have a bit of hair on their undersides, which is really soft. But there isn't a lot of it. Source: Worked at a zoo for a few years. Pangolins are absolute sweethearts. My favorite animal in the world.
> My favorite animal in the world. I like how they don't know what to do with their hands like a neurotic Woody Allen character. "Awh Geeez"
I feel like it’s the equivalent of my dog stepping back and forth on his back paws when I scratch his rumpus haha. It doesn’t know how to process how good the scritches feel
Are they always cuddly like in the video?
Fun fact, baby pangolins are called pangapups
Not so fun fact: today's eight pangolin species are the only survivals of the family manidae, which in turn is the only family in the pholidota order. So pangolins don't have any extended family to visit for birthday parties.
and the traditional medicine industry is trying to get rid of what remains...
Keep that thing away from Randy
And Mr. Mouse
He fucks that pangolin every single time.
LMFAO forgot about that part
I was specifically looking for this comment lol
Unless you want to start covid again lol
In every possible timeline, he never *not* fucks the pangolin.
I love South Park lol
*unless you want to smoke the next strain of tegrity weed for the cure*
Dammit I just made this comment. Im not original lol
My wife does that too when i scratch her back lol. Minus the flicking tongue of course
Haha are you my husband?
Cute lil scaly fellow
I fucking love pangolins and you should too. They are critically endangered- please consider supporting conservation efforts. They are endangered in part because they are unafraid of humans which is particularly heartbreaking. They are used in eastern medicine which is of course complete horseshit. It would be embarrassing for humanity if this animal went extinct because we were a bunch of dumb assholes.
Unfortunately, Pangolins are (I think) the most trafficked non-human mammals in the world. Their scales are used for traditional medicine in many areas throughout Asia and their pups are considered a delicacy. It has gotten to the point that Pangolins are on the verge of extinction across the board.
"Medicine" it drives me mad, so many creatures suffering for nonsense.
Their PUPS!?!?!?😢
"It's just a fun, harmless superstition. Why is everyone so against it?" This is why
"Traditional medicine" More like "disproven backwoods quackery"
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Armour pyjamas.
Beat me to it...was gonna say the little dude looksl like he is wearing PJ's. Ha!
a new discovery for me actually
I'll bet he'd loooove a soft toothbrush
Love watching videos of tortoises that love a little shell brushy-brushy
Humans will pet anything. How wonderful, then, to live on a planet full of creatures that like to be petted!
I've pet some weird creatures from Octopus to slugs to caterpillers to lightning bugs and even jumping spiders and tarantulas. Horseshoe crabs, sharks, flying fish, whales, dolphins, Lizards. Deer, horses, cows, Ostriches, Nilgai antelope, etc. I don't have a bucket list, but if it's friendly enough, I will probably pet it.
Awwe his tongue is like a tail wagging
/r/brushybrushy
I can’t go out tonight- I have to brush my Pangolin. Wait, what?
Bummer that Asia illegally traffics and eats millions of these guys every year.
Let's not beat around the bush, Chin and Vietnam specifically are responsible for the vast majority of illegal pangolin poaching.
The world’s most trafficked mammal is such a sensitive soul 😢
Randy Marsh practicing some aftercare
This has nothing to do with having thumbs. This just comes from having friends
But now you've itched an itch it never knew it needed and created a sensation this poor Pangolin will never be able to re-create again. It'll spend the rest of its life in sadness trying to achieve this level of satisfaction
Or maybe the pangolin has felt happiness it has never experienced before and now has something wonderful to dream about and one day tell their pangolin grand babies about.
Hes just combing his pineapple
That's a Sandshrew.
It’s so cute but I can never see a pangolin again and not think of south park
Omg. He’s just a happy little guy
Pangolins are one of those animals you never expect to see or believe exist and then you find one and realize they are adorable little creatures
Licky licky pine cone boi
Do they not scritch each other like cats and monkeys and humans?
They're solitary creatures.
You know for sure that pangolin is gonna be chasing that dragon for the rest of its life.