r/interestingasfuck • u/GloomyLingonberry509 • 14h ago

A Baluchistan Pygmy Jerboa, the smallest rodent in the world

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u/Toyso_0 14h ago

Also looks like the oldest rodent in the world. Like he needs a little rodent cane and an early dinner.

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u/RaymondBeaumont 11h ago

Boy needs a torso

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u/tryyeezus 10h ago

You be nice to Jimothy's distant cousin, Tomathan

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u/yellowcloak 12h ago

The video itself is like 20 years old now 

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u/ArjJp 10h ago

Dude looks like if Mr Burns was a rodent

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u/greenizdabest 7h ago

Muad'ib

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u/ResponseLife6305 4h ago

Early dinner 🤣🤣🤣

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u/PeterTheSmoker 14h ago

Those legs 😭

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u/Pablo_9t9 12h ago

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u/wdnwcgm 9h ago

I was thinking it's like a real pokemon lol

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u/xaeru 13h ago

poor guy, looks like an old man.

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u/D413-4 12h ago

He’s in his prime!

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u/Groundbreaking-Fig38 14h ago

(sorry, I have to)

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u/Slight_Street_9069 14h ago

Muaddddd’dibbbbbb

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u/darkestarc 10h ago

Eh. Could've been worse. You could've put lemmiwinks

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u/Anderas1 14h ago

It's just head and feet, like a child's drawing

So cute!

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u/VisualHuckleberry542 9h ago

And little T-Rex hands

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u/_BlackDove 7h ago

Bro would be full after eating a single pea.

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u/lilbitsacrastic 14h ago edited 4h ago

I'm gonna need to see that next to a banana.

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u/louisa1925 14h ago

That banana is going to look like a bus next to this cutie.

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u/Loopedrage 14h ago

are you sure it’s not just a bus-sized banana though

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u/jamie_does 13h ago

Oh shit, never thought about that

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u/mbashs 13h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Tcx92WfhuVS5W
Just remove 90% of the body after the head.

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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 13h ago

Clearly they weren't necessary. They just did it because they could.

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u/HMCetc 13h ago

Or a capybara!

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u/Harl0t_Qu1nn 8h ago

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u/MarkVHun 4h ago

"I am all ears"

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u/Professional_Echo907 14h ago

This looks like something that distracts you in Star Wars while a monster the size of the Millennium Falcon sneaks up on you. 👀

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u/-MrFozzy- 14h ago

Muad'Dib

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u/Ladnarr2 14h ago

It looks only slightly better off than the 5 year old hamster.

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u/skeletoorr 14h ago

Little dude weighs less than an 1/8

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u/UberCookieSlayer 14h ago

All that energy went to his height.

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u/BigSmackisBack 4h ago

weighs as much as what passes for an 1/8 round here

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u/Frog_Brother 14h ago

Pygmothy

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u/MT-ONeill 9h ago

Where's the rest of him?

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u/Consumer_of_crayons 14h ago

3.2 grams, that's less then an 1/8 of a rodent 😆 🤣 😂

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u/Liarus_ 13h ago

That's crazy i thought dormice were the smallest ones, this is like, twice as small

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u/GreenieBeeNZ 14h ago

A single atom

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u/konstipald 14h ago

Some dudes just roll 2 for constitution.

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u/No_Sky_1829 14h ago

It's only the smallest because it's missing a body!

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u/HMCetc 13h ago

It's like 90% head and hindlegs.

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u/theredhanter 14h ago

That's just a head!

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u/K-Shallow 14h ago

Does that also make it the smallest mammal ?

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u/Smalde 9h ago

No, the Etruscan Shrew (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_shrew) weights only 1.8g.

By body length, it is the Kitti's hog-nosed bat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitti's_hog-nosed_bat) at 29–33 millimetres in length.

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u/K-Shallow 8h ago

TIL. Didn't even know shrews weren't assimilated to the rodent family, interesting stuff !

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u/Slightly-Blasted 6h ago

From the wiki page.

The shrew has such a fast metabolism

It will starve to death in four hours

four hours without eating and it dies

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u/xneyznek 9h ago

Apparently they honor belongs to the Etruscan Shrew

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u/K-Shallow 8h ago

Wasn't aware of its existence, what a marvelous little critter ! Life is full of wonders

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u/Bazookagrunt 4h ago

They’re actually closer to moles

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u/basonjourne98 8h ago

Looks like the Lorax.

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u/Better_Carpet_7271 13h ago

It's all about the feet tbh.

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u/mumooshka 6h ago

it's like a cephalopod ie head foot

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u/justamadeupnameyo 6h ago

Makes me think of a wet owl.

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u/randomFIREAcct 8h ago

The new jimothy!

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u/titleguy2004 14h ago

So cute!!

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u/mastascaal89 14h ago

I now know where they got the inspiration for Heimerdinger

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u/gumbo-23 14h ago

Why do I suddenly feel like a cat watching this?

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u/HMCetc 13h ago

🤏🏻

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u/metalfarts 13h ago

Master splinter?

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u/jayjayyy21 13h ago

Awe, one of Mr. Bobinsky's "mice"

https://giphy.com/gifs/hBSkbjMsxzW0ebZrGH

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u/Ann__A__ 13h ago

Head on two sticks.

And btw. A shave is LONG OVERDUE

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u/Valuable-Flight2121 13h ago

Love this ❤️

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u/Dainiad 13h ago

Malfoy haircut

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u/ja3palmer 13h ago

He geekin

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u/Candid_Victory7923 12h ago

That Monday feeling

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u/deathcoinstar 11h ago

That's a tiny chicken-walker with Chewy's head for the cockpit

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u/LittleJerboa1 11h ago

MY PFP!!!

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u/Cyfa 10h ago

i love him i would die 4 him

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u/Purple-Ad-4629 8h ago

That guy needs to eat a sandwich.

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u/Significant-Lie1225 5h ago

Looks tired of evolution

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u/Silt-Besides-66812 12h ago

No, he is eating his own tail, that’s going to make him even smaller!

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u/VukKiller 14h ago

Lil bro is 1 eye too big of being called Mike Wazowski

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u/louisa1925 14h ago

More foot than rodent.

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u/PumkimEscobar 13h ago

Is this the hamster that got 100 female hamsters all pregnant?

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u/anoraq 13h ago

Muad’Dib!

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u/Mighty_ShoePrint 13h ago

It looks like a normal mouse with the back half of its body missing

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u/WinPrestigious7568 13h ago

An the biggest feet

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u/Extreme-Context7950 10h ago

aw hes mint xxx

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u/BirdPrior2762 10h ago

I'm not a fan

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u/Beginning-Taro-3591 10h ago

It’s like a baby mouse that tried to grow into a chick

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u/Wintertrap9713 10h ago

I might be dumb but I legit just thought they were an old school RuneScape creature I didn't realise they were fucking real

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u/Substantial_Bag_9536 10h ago

Resting heart rate ? 250 lol ?

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u/darky_tinymmanager 10h ago

Rodent kinda sounds harsh for that package of cuteness

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u/morey56 9h ago

I thought it was a walking head for a moment.

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u/_pozzy_ 9h ago

That is a cottonball with legs

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u/Aerxies 9h ago

I showed this to my wife and she said it's a rat with a disability

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u/BigBossBelcha 9h ago

Minothy

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u/No_Trade_7315 7h ago

Snake snack.

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u/__50pe__ 7h ago

He's just a little guy , the OG

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u/Jorwen 7h ago

Muad'Dib will show us the way.

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u/MrHogsman 6h ago

LISAN AL GAIB

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u/Important-Food-5819 6h ago

When you skip leg day

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u/scorpio_knight_ 4h ago

its like a birdmouse

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u/Imcromag 3h ago

That's a hairy insect. Love it.

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u/mrbadger2000 3h ago

How much smaller than a Harvest Mouse?

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u/asphyxiationbysushi 3h ago

"I totally meant to fall off that scale, guys".

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u/Jaded_Helicopter_376 3h ago

In Ark these guys tell you the weather forecast

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u/indifferentunicorn 2h ago

That is mr burns

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u/ghelchodyo 14h ago

one popcorn meme

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u/The_Onyx_Ogre 13h ago

That's Muad Dib

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u/whatdoings 14h ago

Can someone tell me why rodents have such long tails? Like how did this evolve? They seem cumbersome

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u/Sober_Alcoholic_ 13h ago

They use it as a balance point to keep balance/centered, particularly while maneuvering. Among other things.

Humans still have tailbones. It’s apart of mammalian heritage and evolution.

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u/narwhal_breeder 8h ago edited 4h ago

If you hand the dude doing your IVF a $50 usually you can have him CRISPR the tail genes back in it’s fucking sick my sons tail is like 8ft long. Makes baby-proofing a nightmare though because he can grab stuff off of counters with it real easy.

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u/whateverfour 9h ago

Nothing cute about a wild creature not living in the wild.

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u/Frifafer 3h ago

It looks like it's angry it had to get out of the shower