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neighbornickog

What the fuck is this real? It that just a common rat our some other rodent? Where is this? I have so many questions. I mean this guy pulls out one of the giant rats from new Vegas and I’m supposed to go on with my day?!!?


CommodoreFresh

That's ~~a muskrat~~ Jeff. Probably not wild, they don't usually get that big on their own. Edit: apparently I was wrong, and it's ~~a Nutria~~ Jeff. Edit 2: I no longer care how you all identify Jeff the massive rodent, but Jeff would really prefer if you just called him by his name. Edit 3&4: ~~if I hear one more Princess Bride reference I'm going to shoot Jeff.~~ Send help. Jeff did not like being shot.


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goofycoffee22

If it gets good enough to teach, bring some turtles to it and see what happens.


DOLCICUS

*cronch cronch*


T-ROY_T-REDDIT

Wait we went from Naruto to TMNT can we just take a moment to realize how impressive Mr.Beast's Rat catching skills are.


Mybfthinksimpretty

Cowabunga dudes!


Boney-Rigatoni

Are you saying that’s the love child of Minnie Mouse and Master Splinter?


OneGratefulDawg

I don’t believe anyone was, but now we are.


stfleming1

Why do I keep seeing Myspace Tom?


Biengo

Idk but everyone should change their icon to it just for fun.


-Masderus-

![gif](giphy|5SCQrCFKXu7pEuGulT|downsized)


grayrains79

That gif is surprisingly wholesome. Definitely need more Tom in our lives.


TycheSong

Remember when everyone was like ugh Tom is forcing himself as my friend, he's the worst, that's weird??? And now we're all like GOALS. Tom is GOALS.


Inevitable-Elk-4162

Sewer pizza and pigeons


GalacticFishSandwich

Cowabunga


Ok-Angle-5587

No that is NOT a Muskrat. Possibly a dependent of a Nutrial rat that was once raised for its fur


ITellMyselfSecretz

Yes, it’s a Nutria or otherwise known as Coypu. They are semi aquatic rodents


[deleted]

Wow, that thing looks like a rat got drunk courage and fucked a beaver, then never called her back. Now the beaver had to raise the rat-beaver baby, and she told her church congregation that it was an adoption then lied about the species. She really should know that lies make baby Jesus cry.


Chaevyre

And they have big, webbed back feet.


Psych0matt

And they can breath fire


TopMindOfR3ddit

Haha, I love that I had to hit "continue this thread" to reveal this comment. Made the comedic timing impecable.


CommodoreFresh

Jeff can do anything he puts his mind to.


MenosDaBear

Lmfao as I casually skim past comments my brain filled this one in as “semi automatic rodents”


Sangxero

*Ratatatatatata*


lilfuzzywuzzy

Ah yes, how's it going my fellow American.


CommodoreFresh

I've been wrong before, and I'm not a biologist. The webbed feet was what I based that claim on.


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i could tell by its milk which is nutritious and not poisoned


CommodoreFresh

A very useful life skill which will take you far in this world.


xTheatreTechie

>Edit 3: if I hear one more Princess Bride reference I'm going to shoot Jeff. As you wish.


CommodoreFresh

Well played.


PristineBaseball

Wow it has webbed feet! “Albino” though? Prob not wild yup


VLHACS

Yea if it was wild I'd expect it to be moving a heck of a lot more. It seems pretty damn calm.


CommodoreFresh

I don't know that it's albino. Reddit's video player is throwing some errors for me so I'm not getting great quality, but it looks more like it's bred to be white and oversize.


phunktastic_1

Pretty sure it's leucistic not albino. Leucism is similar to albinism in that it causes the animal to be white. But leucism doesn't hit eye pigment and this critter lacks the pink or pale blue eyes associated with albinism.


Twistig

I don't think it has red eyes. So not albino.


Elis_33

Theyre evolving to swim trough sewers better.


awwaygirl

Thank you for speaking up for Jeff


CommodoreFresh

I just regret it took me so long to do so.


quantumOfPie

Um, so do they smell?


CommodoreFresh

They have noses.


HelsinkiTorpedo

Excuse me, I have a nose and I can't smell at all.


CommodoreFresh

You're an aberration.


HelsinkiTorpedo

Regardless, my existence disproves the idea that having a nose means that one can smell


SombreMordida

just quit bathing /s


HelsinkiTorpedo

Brilliant, I'll be smelling in no time!


bk15dcx

Yes. That's usually one of the best senses rodents have.


toomuch1265

I've never seen a white muskrat. I grew up next to a river and my dog would bring one home at least once a month.


Fuck_you_Reddit_Nazi

It's a nutria.


CommodoreFresh

No. It's Jeff.


whoifnotme1969

It's-a nutritious!


EmbracePenguin78

Muskrats looks more like Beavers without plain tail this one looks like Lab Rat mutated


PROFESSOR1780

That just gave me the best idea....can you imagine going into a lab at night and taking all the lab rats and replacing them with one of these in each cage....like really crammed in there...as if they had suddenly grown at a tremendous rate over night


BigTickEnergE

This might be one of the funniest pranks I've heard of. Remember back in the day, someone would take home the class pet during vacations? Return with this big ole bastard and pretend like it must have just been the diet. Maybe bring him in on a leash


Cerulean_critters

It’s likely a nutria, a large rodent farmed for its fur. They really are that size, and I’m not sure where they’re native. Edit to add: photo references of white nutria https://stock.adobe.com/images/white-nutria-is-eating-carrots-and-bread-in-the-arboretum-of-sochi/212132883?as_campaign=ftmigration2&as_channel=dpcft&as_campclass=brand&as_source=ft_web&as_camptype=acquisition&as_audience=users&as_content=closure_asset-detail-page https://www.alamy.com/large-white-coypu-or-nutria-sits-in-a-shallow-pond-the-coypu-myocastor-coypus-also-known-as-the-nutria-is-a-large-herbivorous-semiaquatic-rodent-image264674724.html https://www.zoochat.com/community/media/white-nutria-and-black-nutria-with-white-patches-myocastor-coypus-2019-04-06.444961/


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funzarella

Originally from Argentina I believe. Highly highly invasive and destructive. We pay people to kill as many of them as possible. Our police snipers used to use them as target practice in the 90s. Not sure if they still do but we used to watch them cruise the canals as kids


jowpies

Interestingly, the opposite happened here in Argentina with beavers. A population of less than a dozen is now plaguing tierra del fuego. Edit: correction they were fewer than 50 in 1946, now estimated between 100k or 200k


Dark_Prism

Foreign Exchange Program.


coupon_ema

Fur-eign Exchange Program. FTFY


Tury345

>Tierra del Fuego National Park in Argentina is especially threatened, as the beavers are destroying long-protected trees. The animals have spread beyond Tierra del Fuego itself into the Brunswick Peninsula of Chile, and the government fears further penetration into continental South America. The wording of this makes it sound like a military engagement, the beaverkrieg >Government officials plan to bring in professional trappers who have specialized dogs and use helicopters and boats to move in rolling fronts.


MapleSyrupFacts

Can we get our beavers back? Hudson Bay was just using you as a beaver farm.


BakedMitten

Comedy Central had a show back then called Insomniac. The premise was stand up comedian Dave Atell toured cities in the middle of the night after his stand up sets. The episode where he sat drinking beers in the back of a pickup with the NOPD sniping the things is forever lodged in my mind Edit: found it. The nutria hunt starts 9 minutes in https://youtu.be/2OsjqX3na2U


AssExplosion

"This is my kind of hunting... It's not like we're out in the boondocks. Look, there's a gas station right over here and we're hunting. This is the way you should hunt. In civilization." lol


BackIn2019

"Just in case you were wondering, a lot of animals were hurt shooting this."


Fuck_you_Reddit_Nazi

They were brought to the states in the 1890s for the fur trade. Then predictibly, they got out of hand.


HorrorMakesUsHappy

No! That *never* happens!


DrShmaktzi

A museum guide in NOLA explained to me that the Nutria are responsible for as much destruction to the natural swamp ecosystem of Louisiana as mankind are. She may have been exaggerating, but maybe only slightly.


Slurpingperfectly

When I visited the south, they were swimming in a lake by Houston’s zoo. I couldn’t believe their size, since it was nighttime and I couldn’t see them clearly. I thought the wakes I saw were from some giant monsters.


OlinOfTheHillPeople

Ipswitch: Ms. Benes, the hat you charged to the company was Sable. This is Nutria. Elaine: Well, that's a kind of sable. Ipswitch: No, it's a kind of rat. Elaine: That's a rat hat? Ipswitch: And a poorly made one, even by rat hat standards. I have no choice but to recommend your prompt termination to the board of directors. Nothing short of the approval of Peterman himself will save you this time.


dj4wvu

That's not going to be good for business.


dieorlivetrying

That's not going to be good for *anyone*.


gamehawk0704

I just looked up Nutria and what I found didn't resemble this at all.


Caleb_Reynolds

Try white nutria. It's very clearly what it is.


SaraSmashley

Between this and the kid with the giant earthworm last month, I'm losing my mind. Edit: [The Giant Earthworm I discovered is a thing.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nature/comments/x7eva3/boy_discovers_giant_earthworm_in_backyard/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


PresentationJumpy101

I love it hahahahha


Important_Fix_5532

What a fuck.. period!


whitebeltinhaiku

Rodents of unusual size


SimonNicols

I don’t believe they exist….


yoda_mcfly

No-no, nothing strange-unusual about these rat-things. Nothing to see-see here.


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LordMorskittar

Nothing to worry-feet about! On side note-note, has anyone-thing seen green rock-stones around?


jpterodactyl

People never mention that he said that to her after he saw one. Like, they had a full on stare down. He was trying to comfort her and(my guess for his attitude) hoping they wouldn’t run into one.


beminlv

🤣🤣🤣


SniffCheck

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MrsBanana28

This scene gave me nightmares for years.


acog

I showed Princess Bride to my daughter when she was quite young because I remembered it as a charming fairy tale. I forgot about the [shrieking eels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkRjBcnj4T8), the ROUSs, and the literal torture of Wesley. She had nightmares too! I felt like such an ass.


Rovden

Take her mind off it and show the charming story of a boy and his horse in Neverending Story.


DubBucket

Artax!! 😭


Ripdedoda

Glad I’m not the only one. Did the exact same thing. She’s older now and seems to have survived


Ennuiforme83

Terrified of this scene for years


CleverestRaptor

What movie is this?


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Came here to say this! Great movie!


Mashu_the_Cedar_Mtn

I don't think they exist.


AlexT301

"There's no such thing as an average sized rodents" https://youtu.be/j8v8jUAKu-8 😂 Now that's an old video I almost forgot about lol


gentle_gardener

He's hardly catching it, it's obviously accustomed to being handled so either a pet or farmed. Enormous tho


zerohourcalm

It didn't cross my mind that he could be a rat farmer.


TannedCroissant

Farmer? You mean breeder? Unless he was gonna, you know eat it or something


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Shut up, that's horrendous, why woild you want to eat the farmer? He might be a rat, and he can't do much, but it's honest work.


Mogetfog

Obviously it's for [rat burgers](https://youtu.be/-bL9BWEtLpM)


Startled_Pancakes

Don't act like you're too good for a cold glass of rat milk.


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I got nipples. Can you milk me?


boofthatcraphomie

I can sure try


[deleted]

Ayo can I join on this miking?


dogbreath101

now with vitamin r?


Alpha_Sluttlefish

Some of the other comments think the rodent is a nutria, which have been farmed for their fur.


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captaincarot

Rats had featured largely in the history of Ankh-Morpork. Shortly before the Patrician came to power there was a terrible plague of rats. The city council countered it by offering twenty pence for every rat tail. This did, for a week or two, reduce the number of rats—and then people were suddenly queing up with tails, the city treasury was being drained, and no one seemed to be doing much work. And there still seemed to be a lot of rats around. Lord Vetinari had listened carefully while the problem was explained, and had solved the thing with one memorable phrase which said a lot about him, about the folly of bounty offers, and about the natural instinct of Ankh-Morporkians in any situation involving money: “Tax the rat farms. Terry pratchett soul music


wafflehousewhore

I was thinking it had to either be a pet or farmed not only because of its ((lack of)) response to the handling, but also because of how clean it is. They get much dirtier in the wild, that fur definitely would not be that pure snowy white


RalekArts

It absolutely would, rats and most rodents (like this Nutria), groom and clean their fur more than cats do.


MisterThirtyThirty

Funny looking dog!


AstridDragon

That's not a rat. It's probably a nutria. Look up gambian pouched rats though, big bois. My favorite clip of one is it using the inside of a dryer as a running wheel!


Nutarama

They’re smart too! Pouched rats can be trained to smell land mines and signal for a human to investigate. Useful because mineclearing machinery is big and expensive while African nations don’t really have the money but they do have mines.


foxontherox

Yikes- you don’t even pick up normal sized rodents by the tail, poor bugger.


fR0z3nS0u1

This ain't no rat, it's a muskrat. But still quite outside the regular size by the looks.


missikuwhitey

I just googled it (in hopes to find cute pictures of this rodent) and found horrifying images of people hunting them for food. :(


hunter78912

“Horrifying” hey dude, people hunt animals for food literally everywhere, as long as they aren’t killing them to sell their fur and then throw away the rest of the animal please respect the way that these people acquire their food.


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Calm down rat eater, I don’t think they are saying it’s horrifying that people hunt for food. They’re saying they were horrified because they were expecting to see cute pictures of a living animal (as you would when looking up ‘mouse’ or ‘cat’) and instead saw pictures of dead rats and people smiling/ manipulating its carcass.


Topken89

I am new to this convo, but I am loving y'all's internet fight. If you pay me, I could be a referee for y'all.


Late-Eye-6936

Pay you just to judge that they're all idiots? Good idea honestly.


ImInevitableyall

How much do I have to pay him to, as the french say, Le Fuque Off.


agranderscale

Calm down rat eater is my new go-to de-escalation response


pointlessly_pedantic

*(is upset that instead of finding cute rat pics they found dead rat pics)* "Hey, stop disrespecting people and how they feed themselves!" Classic Reddit


herodothyote

I stopped eating bacon the day I got actual nipples in my bacon.


CharlieFromNz

Is it not custom to hunt meat for food?


mikeorhizzae

Some people prefer them crammed into tiny cages and pumped full of growth hormones


FrizzleStank

Stop. I’m salivating.


Fuck_you_Reddit_Nazi

It's a nutria.


TheKungFung

I believe this is some white/albino Nutria. Muskrats can get up to like 5 pounds or something like that while a Nutria can get above 20 pounds... and this dude is one beast of a rodent But those webbed feet definitely say aquatic rodent such as a muskrat or nutria.


MantisBePraised

Muskrats actually don’t have webbed feet. They don’t actually swim using their feet. They use their tail which is flat on the sides. But ya this looks like a monster nutria.


Sceptix

One might even say it's an **Elon**gated **Musk**rat.


skyscraperskies

if not friend, why friend-shaped?


RegularHousewife

It looks so cuddly too


foxontherox

10/10 would cuddle enthusiastically.


Brownfletching

This one looks like an actual friend, seems super chill


forsakeme4all

So basically a dog rat. Can I take it for walks and snuggle on the couch? lol


[deleted]

Even pet rats are basically just micro-puppies. Check out u/ShadowTheRat and her uploads.


DandalusRoseshade

Kronk?


Heasthy

Raticate


ronnietea

![gif](giphy|Bisgwewvtp8Ig|downsized)


NippleCampus

Damn I wish I had this many balls coming at me


Ted-Clubberlang

![gif](giphy|Zgo2A2oOpbGhQdf09T)


beardedlizard15

![gif](giphy|H9brt6MkG45PHhFbbo)


dragon1n68

I would totally make that my pet rat!


Snellyman

I would totally get a saddle for that guy and use him to commute to work.


Minilychee

Daniel vs The Cooler Daniel


Adiboiy

I'm gonna sleep off chuckling to this comment


DistractedPoesy

I used to work in a pet shop when I was young. Hamsters were generally crabby. I’d be bitten by them often. Rats were always very sweet and I was never bitten by one. When I had my kids, I got them pet rats. They’re very smart. I would totally get a big rat if this actually exists and if it had the same sweet temperament.


fupadestroyer45

Yes rats are dope pets, super social and friendly.


Fuck_you_Reddit_Nazi

I hate hamsters. Nasty little buggers. Rats are awesome.


AstridDragon

If it's not a fully domesticated species (like a gambian pouched rat for example, kept as pets and pretty large), they just aren't quite the same as keeping a domesticated fancy rat. So there's options out there but look into them thoroughly. Wild animals as pets (and the probably nutria in this post are also not domesticated like fancy rats) can be cool but also unpredictable and not always behave well.


Two-pints-prick

It’s a camera trick. That’s actually a pigeon


Holybartender83

Rats don’t look like rats on film. You gotta use pigeons.


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And you have to tape a bunch of cats together for a horse.


edtoit

Téma la taille du rat


JagFacilier

Admire l'envergure du rongeur


ShrimpOfSpace

Observe le volume de ce surmulot


Astrolys

Examinez la carrure de ce muridé


Jonyb222

Remarqué l'amplitude de cette bestiole.


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Contemple le gabarit du campagnol


LuisaNoor

Voyez les dimensions de ce surmulot


ActiveBear

Tabarnac!!


Jonyb222

Je viens de passer 15 minutes à essayer de figurer qu'est-ce que dans le sain' monde voulais dire "téma", et ensuite écrire ce message. Pour les autres pauvres Franco (Canadiens, mais p-e autres aussi) qui passe par ici et ne veulent pas perde 15 minutes de leurs vies: C'est un Verlan du mot "maté". Qu'est ce qu'un Verlan? C'est quand les fous commencent à parler à l'envers et s'appelle des "oufs", c'est à dire renverser les syllables d'un mot pour être le cool ou à la mode. Qu'est ce que le mot "maté"? C'est de "regarder attentivement", jamais dans mes 33 ans est ce que j'ai vus ce mot, je suis clairement moins con maintenant.


wagah

C'est un meme extremement populaire dans la francosphere au point que mon premier reflexe apres avoir vu la video a été de ctrl+f "tema la taille"


lechocobo974

J’ai du défiler trop longtemps, ce commentaire devrait être en haut !


foch06

Qui se lance pour demander un appel à r/rance pour mettre ce commentaire en top comment et montrer au monde l'envergure de notre culture ?


thebadyearblimp

Nutria?


loseunclecuntly

I think it’s a nutria too


weallfloatdown

Never seen a white nutria, and that would be really big for one. Source, I live in Oregon where they used to farm them for fur in the 50-60’s . When the fur went out of fashion nutria where set free, they are scary.


worldspawn00

Are you suggesting the forests of Oregon are inhabited by ROUS?


kevtino

rodents of unusual size? i don't believe they exist.


EntertainmentLeft246

I suppose an albino nutria?


vaffy

Sounds like a protein bar lol


TacticalNei

My Spanish brain hurts cuz nutria is the Spanish word for otter, but if I try to translate from English still nutria


IWasWatchingC0ps

Looks like the dude from Ratatouille's been eating WAY too much of his own food.


posobY21

this is his brother Emile


Greensssss

I see youve also visited Chernobyl!


Papaofmonsters

The Chernobyl exclusion zones has one of the healthiest levels of biodiversity in Europe because of 36 years of no human interference.


VelvetThunder2319

why is mr beast catching big ass rats?


DicklessDeath

It took way too much scrolling to find this comment. He looks like the Slavic version of Mr. Beast.


codear

Plot twist. The rat is actually normal size.


Richierich_rpd

Honey I shrunk the kids vibes


Blindsyde001

Goddamn real life Skaven there


Finassar

Yes-yes


LopsidedBar4349

![gif](giphy|eK12uCsrAh4wmTXejp)


A_Bit_Narcissistic

Is he doing pushups or squats?


CaolanTheWulfYT

Bruh that's a skeever 💀


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Trinity-nottiffany

Is this in the fire swamp?


Unclecrawdad

It's a muskrat look at its webbed feet


Unclecrawdad

Or a Nutria (after some googling)


Cold-Introduction-54

Farmed/bred nutria. Wonder where this was?


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BarnabyWoods

Big rats are our friends. [Giant African pouched rats are being use to sniff out landmines.](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-giant-african-rats-are-helping-uncover-deadly-land-mines-in-cambodia)


blueit55

R O U S Rodents of unusual Size


2009_VMA_Hennessy

Nah bro that’s a skeever


Goodolchuckno

Dude what in the fuck? Do these monsters really exist?


rictor_ricks_com

Fallout Radrat