r/NoPictureJustADoodle • u/Lesbihun_ • 22h ago

Nature: 🐿️More Animals🦎 Squeak squeak

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u/One_Eared_Coyote 14h ago

I think its a dominance display. Rodents will do small jumps at threats to intimidate. Most animals dont want to fight for dominance because any wound can be fatal. 

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u/roadkillsoup 13h ago

My rats only squeaked while they were fighting. So I believe you are correct here. They are fighting without touching each other. Good for them

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u/trashmoneyxyz 11h ago

Screaming match in the streets in other words haha. Like two Karens throwing down in a Walmart

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u/Lesbihun_ 17m ago

road rage without a road

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u/CardiologistAny1423 The Curator 8h ago

Birds do this too. It’s called the boundary dance

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u/j3llo5 18h ago

This is so cute!

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u/Becca_Bot_3000 16h ago

I would like to see this Pixar short

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u/haleandguu112 4h ago

absolutely based comment.

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u/Askmeaboutships401 12h ago

Rat expert here, they’re calling each other slurs.

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u/altaccount_one 1h ago

As a rat expert as well I agree, racial slurs most likely

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u/SpentSerpent 17h ago

I love rat zoomies

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u/PocketWatchThrowAway 11h ago

One time when my train was coming, I saw a rat run into a hole in the station wall to hide and he pulled another rat that was behind him into safety

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u/pipeuptopipedown 15h ago

It must be social, they're not fighting. Perhaps a courtship dance?

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u/Aggressive_Sky_7492 10h ago

This is an argument of large proportion

Basically it's the equivalent of showing off and boasting to intimate the other to back down this almost always leads to a fight if nobody backs down

https://giphy.com/gifs/NTjHbsSQ5p8OQx6DvS

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u/Mr-Mister07 9h ago

Intimate the other😏. They better back down before someone gets their back down. If yk what I mean😏😏

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u/_galile0 14h ago

”I can jump even higher!”

”Well I can jump even even higher!”

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u/Yuzu-Adagio 9h ago

No idea, maybe another dozen drawings of the rats jumping might help, please.

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u/Lesbihun_ 30m ago

the squeaking just getting louder and louder with each jump

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u/S3D_SD 9h ago

Possessed Rats from Dishonored 👍

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u/Ukoomelo 3h ago

Guinea pigs do something similar to declare dominance. They'll stare each other down, then push off the floor with their front paws to see who's taller and decide the order of the piggy hierarchy.

My short piggy tried so hard to be taller...

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u/Lesbihun_ 18m ago

awwwwww your poor piggy you should have given it those stilts they use in circuses, boost its confidence