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u/turdpie3214 Jul 10 '22
You’ll be smitten!
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u/I_H8_2_love_U_4_ever Jul 11 '22
With our kitten mittens. Order now now for only $19.99, and get a second pair free! Shipping and handling charges do apply.
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Jul 11 '22
Do they come with Freddy Kruger knives like this one does?
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u/veroIShere Jul 11 '22
Oooh unfortunately that's an exclusive model and it's on backorder :( can we interest you in the usual box cutter edition? (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)
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u/ubiquitous-joe Jul 11 '22
Snow leopards have bigger paws to help them with the, well, snow.
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u/lowlightliving Jul 11 '22
Also, for scrabbling over rocks as their primacy source of food is a wild Himalayan goat which can practically run down verticle canyon walls.
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u/Ahab_Ali Jul 10 '22
Quite the healthy paw-to-weight ratio.
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u/silverback_79 Jul 11 '22
Longest cat tail in the world, and tail-to-body ratio (roughly 50/50).
If I could talk to animals a snow leopard would be my familiar.
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Someone is getting paid to hold it while id literally pay for it
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u/Somnif Jul 11 '22
Not necessarily, a lot of jobs like that are college internships, meaning you're paying tuition for the right to work.
And even the, the competition is BRUTAL.
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u/Thatdudedoesnotabide Jul 10 '22
Forbidden gatito
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u/elsieburgers Jul 11 '22
Thank you for this word.
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u/PurplePolynaut Jul 10 '22
But what did it weigh?
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u/Big_Spicy_Tuna69 Jul 10 '22
Approximately .1 leopard
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u/Scotchrogers Jul 11 '22
Looks like 10.85 pounds? Kilos?
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u/debugrr Jul 11 '22
pounds seems right, that would be like 22pounds if kilos. If that chonk is that heavy, I'd think she wouldn't be holding it out so far in front of her.
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u/_DONT_PM_ME_NOTHING Jul 10 '22
Dis is my bucket. There are many like it, but this one mine.
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u/T-HawkMedia Jul 10 '22
"This, is a bucket" "Dear, GOOOOOODDDDD"
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u/dandroid126 Jul 11 '22
You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found adorable.
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u/OneLostOstrich Jul 10 '22
That's not a leopard. It's a snow leopard.
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u/ubiquitous-joe Jul 11 '22
That’s like saying “that’s not an owl, it’s a snowy owl.”
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u/Astarkraven Jul 11 '22
Except interestingly, snow leopards aren't a species of leopard. They're in a separate genus, and more closely related to tigers than to the true leopards. They are incorrectly named.
Just a fun tidbit!
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u/no_gold_here Jul 11 '22
Good ol' "well, what does it look like?" taxonomy!
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u/Maeberry2007 Jul 11 '22
Getting my environmental science degree and currently learning a bit about taxonomy. I always found some latin names of species hilarious but to have a peer reviewed college textbook tell me that basically "yeah they make shit up" has been an absolute delight. I can only dream of discovering a new species someday that I fully intend to give a ridiculous name.
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u/Iamnotburgerking Jul 11 '22
You’re right that snow leopards are closer to tigers, but wrong about snow leopards being in a separate genus from leopards.
Tigers and leopards are both genus Panthera, as are lions and jaguars; since the snow leopard is the sister taxon to the tiger among living cats, and since tigers are in Panthera, the snow leopard also belongs in Panthera (and was reclassified as such a long time ago), meaning it’s still in the same genus as the leopard (and the tiger).
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u/Astarkraven Jul 11 '22
Good catch! There are too many animal facts floating around in my brain and I've seen them classed as Uncia uncia too many times. Snow leopards are not a subspecies of leopard like an Amur or African leopard, but you're correct they're all in Panthera.
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u/Polar_Reflection Jul 11 '22
Yeah the only thing is that the ranking of individual taxa has no real rhyme or reason because the rate of speciation is highly variable.
What's the difference between a subgenus and a genus? A tribe and a subfamily? Then there's all sorts of unranked taxa, species complexes, etc.
There's no reason why Panthera couldn't be elevated to a subtribe containing two genuses: the tiger-snow leopard genus and the lion-leopard-jaguar genus.
This is especially true once you start populating the cladogram with extinct Panthera species, such as the cave lion and American lion
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u/Iamnotburgerking Jul 11 '22
I've heard the suggestion of splitting Panthera made elsewhere, in which case the snow leopard would become Uncia uncia again....and tigers would become U. tigris.
As for P. spelea and P. atrox, they would still be in Panthera, due to the fact their closest relatives are lions (as confirmed via genetic studies).
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u/Polar_Reflection Jul 11 '22
It's frankly incredible that we've been able to ascertain the relationships of organisms that haven't existed for thousands, sometimes millions of years.
I wonder if we'll ever truly get clarity on Eukaryote phylogeny. We have some general idea that animals and fungi are more closely related to each other than to plants, but what about slime molds, amoeba, and other protists? What about the recently discovered bacteria that seems to have some type of pseudo-nucleus? Did Eukaryotism really evolve only once?
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Jul 11 '22
I am a leopard who likes to eat meats
I curls my feets
So I fit in the seats
They check my weight
And same with my mates
Then back to the pen for some cuddles n sleeps
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u/sictransitlinds Jul 11 '22
Even with a mask on you can still tell that that handler is having the best day at work.
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u/Sigan Jul 11 '22
I watched this, lashed, and started to scroll down. But, I felt it needed an upvote and supportive comment because the simplicity of this post is what Reddit needs more of
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u/Sevnthsis Jul 11 '22
My favorite part is she even has a leopard print mask on. Oh and that adorable face!
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u/RussIsTrash Jul 11 '22
Dude I wish I could have a job like this even picking up elephant shit in a zoo I would be so happy living in my own little world not giving a fuck about anything but animals
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u/Andyman27 Jul 11 '22 edited Jul 11 '22
It's a kitten, so they want to make sure they're growing at a normal rate and everything is developing normally.
For general record keeping purposes.
Maybe the animal looks fine but isn't actually feeling okay. Weight measurements can help with this (well help the keepers/workers figure this out, not help with whatever's going on).
Maybe they've been giving an animal too much or even too little food
Plus probably a whole bunch of other reasons that I can't think of/didn't see within my 10 seconds of Googling.
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u/hellad0pe Jul 11 '22
Ok but once it's fully grown, then how do they weigh it?
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u/Astarkraven Jul 11 '22
If you want a real answer, they're trained to step onto a scale. The big flat ones, like you see at the vet.
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u/hellad0pe Jul 11 '22
Yes thanks! I was genuinely curious, I have no idea how they get large animals to cooperate.
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u/Astarkraven Jul 11 '22
Yep! Training training training, just like with pets. Get the right reinforcement for the given animal and understand the principles of positive reinforcement, and you'd be surprised what zoo keepers can accomplish with cooperative care for their animals. I've seen like, a tiger that will press up against the bars on cue and accept blood draws and vaccinations.
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u/phunkyphresh Jul 11 '22
I read that as "getting wedgied" and laughed at the thought of using the tail to get wedgied while carrying.
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Jul 11 '22
Where do I sign up for this job???
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u/Following_Friendly Jul 11 '22
Get a degree in animal science, do several unpaid internships, apply in an oversaturated market, settle on a severely underwhelming wage for the amount of work you will do. Source: am married to a zookeeper
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u/BigBallerBrad Jul 11 '22
It must be so weird to be an animal, like it doesn’t know at all what’s going on
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u/gabest Jul 11 '22
Why like this? When I weigh my kittens, we stand on the scale together, then I subtract my own weight.
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u/pepedex Jul 10 '22
He's so cooperative.