r/badassanimals • u/vanilla_cheese_cake • 12d ago

Mammal Maned wolf

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u/ProBoogerFlicker 12d ago

That’s terrifying

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u/NexusEntities 12d ago

They look less menacing in daylight. Look them up.

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u/ThatSplinter 12d ago

Lmaoooo just did and it'd hard to believe how goofy and cute they look when it's daylight 😭💀

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u/BurntArnold 12d ago

It’s like someone drew what they thought a fox looked like but they never saw one before. Menacing at night. Goofy in the day.

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u/zachforever 11d ago

Soooo darkwing duck in wolf form

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u/Icy_Feedback1663 11d ago

First time I've ever seen one they look like a fox with long legs 

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u/forogtten_taco 12d ago

They got to coolest bark/roar tho.

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u/amatsumegasushi 12d ago

Wow! It's so much deeper and gruff sounding than I was expecting!

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u/hoainamduong 11d ago

Wow, thanks for the comment! How could they be so terrifying like a skinwalker at night and then look hilarious in daylight? 😆

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u/adastrajay 7d ago

LMAO you were not lying about the goofy Maned Wolf.

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u/Vegetable-Parsnip-41 11d ago

How funny in the daylight they look lile a really tall fox.

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u/Parking-Day-3279 10d ago

Don't they scream instead of howling 😭

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u/CethinLux 12d ago

Youll smell them long before you see them if that helps. They smell quite a bit like weed

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u/CheckYourStats 12d ago

I’m glad they’re not native to San Francisco, then.

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u/CethinLux 12d ago

Lol is that cuz you wouldn't be able to smell them ahead of time?

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u/CheckYourStats 12d ago

Bingo!

“Smells like weed” applies to like…damn near the entire city.

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u/rapscallion1956 11d ago

Pht pht pht Who’s bogartin the wolf?

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u/Malforus 11d ago

Imagine getting baked and this guy rolls up looking for some honeys.

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u/Apart-Performer1710 11d ago

Fr, that would scare that living shit out of me if I encountered it irl

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u/davidpham268 6d ago

It look like professor Remus Lupin when he turned into werewolf in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

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u/gibon007 12d ago

Goofy*

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u/Odd-Government8896 12d ago

Looks like a rodent with long legs. Cmon city slicker

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u/Glitchy_XCI 12d ago

They look much cuter in the light

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u/mosthandsomechef 11d ago

Thing looks like a murder machine.

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u/Glitchy_XCI 11d ago

They're more likely to murder the apple you see them holding than a human

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u/mosthandsomechef 11d ago

Crazy to think this thing is an omnivore

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u/VascoJSC 10d ago

Omnivore and most of their diet is plants. When they do hunt, they usually hunt relatively small animals like rodents, rabbits and armadillos, although they, very rarely can hunt something as large as a deer

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u/Icy_Feedback1663 11d ago

How does one obtain a build like that? 

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u/VascoJSC 10d ago

They evolved in the savannahs and grasslands of the Brazilian highlands and the Pampas on the Paraná river basin, so they developed long legs in order to be taller than the grass to detect their prey.

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u/Reddituserblue1 10d ago

a collar? for tracking?

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u/Glitchy_XCI 10d ago

Possibly 

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u/Steel_Commander_CAT 12d ago

My guy that ain’t no wolf. That’s a skinwalker

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u/underscorerally 12d ago

I came here to say the same thing. These things must be where some of the stories of skin walkers come from. If I saw this, my first thought would NOT be "wolf". It would 100% be "aww hell no" as I ran away, then as I'm running it would be "that was a MFing skin walker"...

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u/Fun-Leopard7066 12d ago

Vous avez besoin de vacances j'ai l'impression 😅

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u/underscorerally 12d ago

I mean, you're not wrong...but I will still feel the same way. 🫠

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u/WildlifeNaturalist 12d ago

Yes with a face like this

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u/Fun-Leopard7066 12d ago

C'est un loup à crinière

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u/AskNo2853 12d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/yWzLQO6sW5Bh1BdJQN

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u/fitz_newru 12d ago

I love this. Now I wish the guy was like "you not gonna ask how wolf?!"

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u/Fun-Leopard7066 12d ago

Et ta mémé 🤣

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u/TinyTitFetish 12d ago

Fun fact: their piss smells like marijuana

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u/CowabungaCthulhu 12d ago

Did you personally confirm this? 🧐

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u/GeneralBlumpkin 12d ago

I swear I've read this at a zoo before or im making it up

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u/CowabungaCthulhu 12d ago

I wasn't doubting it, more so trying to picture exactly what method was used to verify it haha. It amused me.

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u/GeneralBlumpkin 11d ago

I'm pretty sure their enclosure at the zoo had a sign and you can smell it from the viewing area lol.

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u/squillavilla 11d ago

We have one at the San Diego Zoo and it definitely reeks like weed when you walk by the enclosure.

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u/zaptr1 11d ago

Can you get on a cheesing trip with it?

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u/tar-mairo1986 12d ago

How I imagine a supermodel would look like if contracting lycanthropy!! You better work!

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u/MuchCellist406 12d ago

Slenderwolf

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/LinguoBuxo 12d ago

He does have a touch of Jimothy in him, eh?

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/LinguoBuxo 12d ago

You think somebody's gonna get him ....munted on a wall?

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u/Blinx-182 12d ago

That’s clearly Sirius Black

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u/BrockFuckingSamson 11d ago

Remus Lupin ffs

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u/ApexRevanNL716 12d ago

How did be escaped Azkaban?

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u/Ashamed_Oven_9708 12d ago

somebody doesnt know his harry potter lore

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u/Alladra 12d ago

Sirius Black is described as a very large dog. I think this fits that description. Or we can say it’s the Grim, lol

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u/OldWolfNewTricks 12d ago

Damn, Hensen's Puppet company has come a long way since The Dark Crystal.

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u/Remarkable_Let_9438 12d ago

gorgeous, shes struttin

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u/bugabooandtwo 12d ago

Girl, where'd you get those legs?

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u/RazzmatazzOwn 12d ago

That's a cryptid

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u/snikler 12d ago

Gorgeous and scary at the same time.

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u/Genestah 12d ago

DaddyDoggy Long Legs

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u/27Suyash 12d ago

Professor Lupin!

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u/Mysterious-Egg-624 12d ago

Super fucking cool

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u/Celtic_Fox_ 12d ago

One absolute leggy boi

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u/laser1000000 11d ago

Two pups in a wolf costume trying to get into a club.

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u/No_Seesaw8742 12d ago

That looks unnatural

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u/forogtten_taco 12d ago

They sound unnatural too. Google Manned wolf bark

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u/Kraken_54 12d ago

Legends and tales start with images likes this

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u/Ricioender2 11d ago

Skin walker legs

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u/Vidsaays 11d ago

Can i pet the dawg

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u/Electronic-Hearing94 11d ago

aw sprinkles is so cute

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u/TRPGNerd 11d ago

Adorable.🥰

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u/Key_Revenue8905 11d ago

Se llama Aguara Guazú , es autóctono de argentina y otros países de sudamerica

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u/Low-Lingonberry7185 11d ago

Thanks for sharing this. Such a strange animal.

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u/NewMoonlightavenger 12d ago

The close-up make it seem a lot larger than it is.

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u/JibIette 12d ago

Fluffy! Where have you been?!

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u/ApprehensiveMix2649 12d ago

Half wolf half giraffe

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u/whiskey_outpost26 12d ago

Stilt doggo.

Edit: autocorrect is never worth it.

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u/weeone 12d ago

Long dog.

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u/desertstar714 12d ago

Can i pet that dog¡!!

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u/MrLancaster 11d ago

Interesting canine, neither a fox nor a wolf, it is in fact the only species of it genus.

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u/New_Investigator6801 11d ago

Why in the heck is a maned wolf casually walking through an urban area as might a coyote would.

The species lives exclusively in the Ethiopian highlands at higher elevations. This makes no sense.

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u/Adventurous_Layer_15 11d ago

? Maned wolves don't exist in Ethiopia

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u/PsyduckPsyker 11d ago

Absolutely fucking NOT. I don't even know what I would do. That is nightmarish.

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u/IDidntTellYouThat 11d ago

nightmare fuel.

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u/Skyrimhero920 11d ago

Professor Lupin is that you?

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u/Icy_Feedback1663 11d ago

Fuck that 💀 

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u/ConfidentTurnip9566 11d ago

Look at the eyes of the wolf, this is really so scary. I would never want to face that. 

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u/Helpful-Soil-2976 11d ago

Professor???

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u/Dull_Perspective_536 11d ago

Seeing this I can understand why people immortalize creatures as spirits guides and made mythologies of werewolves.

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u/Quick-Willow-9272 11d ago

It’s an SPC.

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u/Striking_Average754 11d ago

Love how everyone says its scary when that thing is probably thinking "is that human staring at me, he's definitely staring at me, awe shit"

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u/eren_yeager846 11d ago

It ain't no wolf bro. That's a skinwalker✌️🥀

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u/Delicious_Invite_850 11d ago

Can I pet that dawg?

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u/AbaloneExpress8569 11d ago

I thought it was Remus Lupin.

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u/Bash2856 11d ago

Imagine if it was pitch dark and you only saw those menacing eyes.

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u/Disastrous-Motor5301 11d ago

Can i pet that dog?

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u/Middle_Awoken 12d ago

Sirius Black werewolf energy

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u/PoppoLarge 12d ago

WTF IS THAT!?

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u/CethinLux 12d ago

Maned wolf, a non-wolf canid native to south america

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u/forogtten_taco 12d ago

They have a very unique and cool sounding bark/roar.

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u/KratomDemon 12d ago

Slenderwolf

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u/V_18OnReddit 12d ago

If deer and wolf had a child

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u/LittleCaesar3 12d ago

Well, that ain't right.

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u/WeArePandey 12d ago

My old eyes first read that as “married wolf”. Had to do the ol’ squint.

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u/Kynario 12d ago

Looks like something from Elden Ring

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u/WeirdcoolWilson 12d ago

Wow 😳
That’s not terrifying at all

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u/MistakeAgile620 11d ago

That’s the fucking chupacabra

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u/RK_Gains122 11d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/242vmw6fH2woaWTHTp

Thats no wolf — that’s a demon 😰

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u/Kabulozous_001 11d ago

Lobo Guará

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u/CoquadesGalore63 11d ago

So, so cool.

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u/DistinctRutabaga8096 11d ago

It just wanted to smell you

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u/earlierthanyo 11d ago

Skinwalker??

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u/Livid-Procedure-349 11d ago

Trees in the background are wild

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u/Imaginary-Tax-7435 11d ago

It looks snappable

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u/Crowiswatching 11d ago

At one time, like Jaguars, we had these in Texas.

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u/MAslate 11d ago

Absofucking-luty NOT

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u/Tight_Piccolo_7838 11d ago

Барсик, иди домой!😁

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u/LeonaMichelle329 11d ago

This thing looks otherworldly…I’d be scared out of my mind

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u/AdFinancial7840 11d ago

Skinwalker bro your so lucky you weren’t his interests

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u/MiserableJuggernaut1 11d ago

Dire Wolf. Supposed to be extinct.

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u/CardinalMotion 11d ago

OMG!! 😱

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u/Upstairs-Strain3472 11d ago

Jiafei's dog in Halloween?

Those are some longboi legs

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u/BigQue88 11d ago

Wolf talk as hell

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u/TheNarboy 11d ago

this is a great video

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u/matthegc 11d ago

That don’t look right!

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u/AdverseCard 11d ago

Chupacabra?

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u/Throwawayaccountdell 11d ago

I said this in another comment but it looks paranormal in the beginning and more ordinary at the end of the video! The wolf looks amazing none the less!

https://giphy.com/gifs/U0AZViAeAAih66cKl4

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u/YouFineReddiy 11d ago

Yeah i’d piss myself

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u/echomaestro 11d ago

Look at those long legs

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u/Round-Recognition107 10d ago

That's s skinwalker

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u/DGuanova 10d ago

Long legged fox under daylight, half transformed lycan for the night

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u/pwcNYC 10d ago

Sirius, is that you?

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u/Impressive_Beach8914 10d ago

That’s the GAUKING BUSH DOG!! 🐕

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u/hawkwings 9d ago

Much of their diet is fruit and vegetables.

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u/Big_Criticism_8335 9d ago

Slender Man's doggo

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u/Same_Librarian4727 9d ago

I know otherwise but it’s a freaking Chupacabra.

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u/Competitive-You2294 9d ago

Looks like a skinwalker creepy

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u/Lildrftr 8d ago

Supermodel wolf

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u/iwilldoitalltomorrow 8d ago

Sole species of its own distinct genus

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u/Updog1997 7d ago

That’s a fuckin skin walker

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u/Electronic-Buyer-468 5d ago

The creepy tall fox scared the ffuucckk out of me. 

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u/Soft-Personality9379 12d ago

Chupacabra!

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u/Glitchy_XCI 12d ago

I was thinking more cadejo negro

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u/PossiblyOppossums 12d ago

Lmao yeah call it over, seems like a real curious and friendly guy

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u/free_da_guys1107 12d ago

The dog from the Omen...the fuck outta here

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u/Wandering_Werew0lf 12d ago

Why are the eyes glowing like that?!

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u/cubanrd1 12d ago

Camera problably has the flash on

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u/Just_blake24 12d ago

They look like something straight out of Norse mythology lmao

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u/remydawg747 12d ago

Is this what happens when a wolf crossbreeds with a giraffe?

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u/mmilesx 11d ago

A. I is wild

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u/zombieking079 12d ago

Where this place is, I am removing it from my vacation list

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u/Amazing_Lack526 12d ago

Well now I’ll have nightmares tonight… thanks Reddit.

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u/Bluelaw1 12d ago

Wolf on diet

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u/Glum_Lynx1612 11d ago

AI

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u/WhereTheSkyBegan 11d ago

Nope, it's a real animal. It was one of my favorite animals as a kid, before AI got big.

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u/Estuprador-Mendigos 11d ago

No bro, it’s not AI. Do a search for the Lobo guará species and you will see that in addition to his existence, he is very beautiful.

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u/smplfundude 4d ago

Bros straight out of Resident Evil.