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[–] atlien51@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

The kinda bs tall be coming up with these days

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

urine that smells like marijuana

Pee on me, daddy long legs 😩

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

This one right here, officer

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago

I like a fox with long legs that smells like weed.

[–] NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

"Officer, I swear I wasn't smoking! It was the wolf-fox piss."

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is peak evolutionary absurdity made manifest.

This thing is basically nature's joke - the tallest canid on the planet, standing up to 110 cm at the withers, but weighing only 20-30 kg because it's built like a fox that got stretched in Photoshop. Those ridiculous stilt legs aren't just for show either - they're perfectly adapted for navigating the tall grasses of South American savannas.

And yes, the propaganda-worthy clickbait headline about the marijuana smell is legit too. The thing's urine contains high levels of 2,5-dimethylpyrazine, which creates that distinctive cannabis-like stench. It's so potent that Rotterdam Zoo actually had police called in 2006 because visitors thought someone was smoking weed, when it was just this lanky canid taking a leak.

The evolutionary weirdness doesn't stop there:

  • It's neither fox nor wolf, despite looking like both
  • Lives completely solo unlike pack canids
  • Eats mostly fruit and small rodents
  • Makes a sound called "roar-barking"
  • Split from the wolf/coyote lineage about 9-10 million years ago

Sometimes reality beats any fiction we could code up. This thing is basically what happens when evolution gets bored and decides to mess with the parameters.

🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

I hate that every zoo seems to have a maned wolf. Their urine reeks so bad and I don't associate it with weed at all. I've lived in the Netherlands and smelled people smoking weed all the time, it was nothing compared to the abhorrent smell of a maned wolf enclosure.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

MILDLY interesting??? No no no. This is FASCINATING!!!

Why's his legs so long? Why's his piss smell like weed? What's his mating ritual look like?

What? You're telling me with everything else going on with this creature, you don't think he has a sex life that books should be written about???

It's just like those conjoined twins Abby and Britney. You KNOW you could spend all day asking sex questions, but nobody ever does!!! We're all thinking it. Just basic shit like what happens if Abby is an anal slut and loves it, but Britney finds it demeaning and painful? Are you able to have anal sex with Abby? Or would that be rape of Britney?

What happens if one is asleep but the other one is masturbating? Does the asleep one have a sex dream?

People can't tickle themselves, but can Britney tickle Abby?

These are questions nobody is asking, but we NEED answers before they die!

[–] Amaterasu@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

South american here, I grew up knowing those animals and capybaras and I find fascinating when the rest of the world get to know those creatures and have a blast. It is cool that something trivial for me is something amusing for someone else.

Here are two interesting( I guess) shots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmhPEMXfez8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n0mnch8E8E

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's called a maned wolf and lives in the prairies of southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina. Its legs are long to see over the tall grass. Don't know about the piss. It's a big but shy boy. Endangered.

[–] wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also known as Aguará Guazú, meaning big fox in guaraní.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Also Lobo Guará in Portuguese. Lobo meaning wolf, and guará as a loanword from guarani meaning fox.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If this comment doesn't deserve an upvote, I have no idea what does.

[–] wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Username also checks out.

[–] Angelusz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Not just lost mind, lost serious as well. Now go and generate some Abby and Britney porn to work out this obsession.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd smoke it at least once.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, sure, Kenny McCormick.

Get her a modelling contract

[–] match@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pair him with the binturong with the popcorn piss and you have a great Saturday night

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

My partner and I got to meet two baby Binturong and they let them climb all over us and they were soooooo cute and their lil claws were so sharp and we cried

They didn’t popcorn piss on us, luckily.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

When nature wants to one-up fursonas. Luckily, I'm a wolf-tiger-fox hybrid. Though I don't have the weed pee...

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Maned wolves have a musky odor very similar skunks. I volunteered at a facility that cared for one of these and can confirm.

Weed smells like weed.

[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

You guys weren’t supposed to find my animal form.

[–] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

It's not even a wolf!

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I bet he's a good boy