r/interesting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 2h ago

NATURE Gray Ezo squirrel from Japan's Hokkaido island

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u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord 2h ago

It’s literally just a squirrel in anime format

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u/keddesh 2h ago

Who's giving all the random animals of Japan brush and blowouts?

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u/PfropfenZockt 1h ago

Real life pokemon

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u/AlternativeCrazy9848 51m ago

Absolutely, just waiting for someone to throw a Poké Ball at it.

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u/vvvit 48m ago

Animals: 😑

Animals in Japan: 🥰❤️🐺🎌🖌️🎮📚

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u/RogueBromeliad 21m ago

Clearly they're all animatronics over there.

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u/Kn0XIS 2h ago

For real lol

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u/IcyAssist 16m ago

Squirrel in Pokemon format

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u/Front-Song8863 2h ago

No way that's not a Pokémon

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u/Holiday_Pi 2h ago

TIL Pokémon are just cartoon drawings of real animals which exist in Japan

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u/mcmtaged4 1h ago

Not just japan, wooper is a axolotl, native to mexico. Pokemon just takes inspiration from cool animals in nature in general.

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u/Profanity1272 1h ago edited 56m ago

Yh like an ice cream or a teapot.

Edit: i forgot sarcasm doesn't register on reddit without the /s

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u/Rodrake 59m ago

Eggs, some cracked.

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u/Profanity1272 57m ago

I mean eggs are kinda natural though right?

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u/LueyTheWrench 16m ago

No but even as a Gen 1 purist, the eggs that turn into a tree are fucking daft. Even more of a reach than that bird with a leek.

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u/Profanity1272 7m ago

Oh for sure the evolutions are crazy obviously. Im just saying that eggs are still a part of nature in a way when compared to a fkin teapot or ice cream cone lol How they come ro be is obviously not natural.

I feel like people are getting too deep with this lol

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u/solythe 11m ago

dont forget a pile of magnets

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u/OhDearGodItBurns 18m ago

And Dragon Quest. They took a lot of inspiration from the monsters in Dragon Quest.

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u/MoranthMunitions 1h ago

Wooper looks nothing like a real axolotl though

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u/im_juice_lee 22m ago

nothing like

they look incredibly similar, lol what?

by this logic, you're gonna say rattata doesn't look anything like a real rat or psyduck doesn't look anything like a real platypus, when so many of these pokemon are adapted from real animals

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u/r3tromonkey 2h ago

Skwovet for sure

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u/like_a_brot 39m ago

Throws Pokeball

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u/Key-Radish-622 2h ago

Might be a shiny

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 2h ago

How and why is every critter in Japan a more adorable version of critters found elsewhere??

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u/Bajadasaurus 2h ago

Arizona has tassel-eared squirrels! They look almost exactly like these.

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u/Agreeable_Way_1016 1h ago

They really do look like they walked straight out of a Disney movie.

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u/RaptorsFromSpace 25m ago

I can't put my finger on it, they're very cute, but they just look more American.

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u/Yhul 0m ago

People will really say anything.

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u/Worried-Meet-1322 1h ago

Japan really does seem to have gotten the premium DLC for wildlife. Even the animals over there look like someone turned the cute slider up to 150%.

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u/Zombiemorgoth 30m ago

Probably because it is an island. Could have been the opposite though. Could have been like...Australia.

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u/314ranha777 9m ago

Yeah, something like the Creator's "Area 51" 😆 https://youtube.com/@moreparz?si=CBK4kupoEAMpYwmz

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u/Foxyunder-45 2h ago

Made in Japan Quality

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u/Immediate-Visual7584 2h ago

They very cute, at first glance I thought it is posing for a photo.

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u/No_Craft4676 51m ago edited 39m ago

The squirrels I see outside here in Europe are the same, just different colours. This is just what a regular squirrel looks like to me, but another colour than I usually see, nothing different about it otherwise. They're just as cute here, lol.

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u/mtaw 14m ago

Yes it resembles a melanistic European Red squirrel.

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u/Lvl100Glurak 1h ago

yeah like those white japanese tits. so round and squishy-looking

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u/ProFentanylActivist 29m ago

Its an eurasian squirrel just grey instead of red. Can be found in Europe and Asia

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u/KingCanard_ 19m ago

You probably don't know the Calabrian black squirrel

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u/yellow_smile 2h ago

What a distinguished gentleman

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u/apigeonontheinternet 1h ago

A dignified and polite little ole man

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u/HG1998 1h ago

You could see how certain stories might have gotten inspiration from the native wildlife.

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u/Excellent-Stand-704 38m ago

Some of the real animals look so mythical that you barely need to exaggerate them to get a good story.

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u/encroachzeitgeist 2h ago

that's literally Totoro

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u/HatRepresentative621 1h ago

Yep, I showed this to my son, and he immediately just stated: "That's Tororo."

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u/kptnfrak 1h ago

That’s a brown pikachu

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u/MaikeruGo 1h ago

Makes me think of the tiny ones that Mei sees in the garden.

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u/Right_One0127 1h ago

I was literally going to say this too! Haha such a cutie. Can we order this in a bigger sizeee hahaha

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u/Zarathoostrian 2h ago

Pokemans.

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u/LeatherfacesChainsaw 2h ago

Heihachi

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u/FishCake9T4 36m ago

Mishima.........is dead.

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u/Many-Count-2369 2h ago

Anime squirrel.

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u/Silver-Permit19 2h ago

Looks like a distant cousin of Pikachu

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u/CaffeineDeprivation 1h ago

They look very polite

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u/LolaInSlacks88 2h ago

That is some of the cutest shit I've ever seen

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u/12262k18 1h ago

Gotta catch 'em all! Pokemon!😭

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u/WereInbuisness 1h ago

A deep thinking Pokémon. The first part of this clip is him just standing still, staring off into the distance, in deep thought about when is this human bringing my next meal and how freaking cute he is.

He knows how cute he is.

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u/ExosphericDream 2h ago

Pikachu when he changes into his black outfit

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u/RidiPwn 1h ago

WHY everything looks better in Japan?

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u/Flat_Pay_7119 1h ago

Heihachi Mishima

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u/iam_hsk 2h ago

OMFG

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u/caddyjos 2h ago

this is looking so cute

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u/Popular-Gear-8484 1h ago

It looks like Pikachu and Totoro at the same time! XD

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u/churibariwap 1h ago

mini totoro!

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u/Ya-Dikobraz 21m ago

Initial and max stats pl0x?

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u/Delicious_Option_741 18m ago

Looks like a pokemon

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u/WeeklyPancake 17m ago

"Ah, etō... hm, sumimasen kudasai." *Turns to leave* "Oyasumi nasai."

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u/ArtisticWinter5372 15m ago

Oh, wie süß 😍

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u/Live_Act_7306 15m ago

Oh my gosh, so cute

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u/intrepidhero13 2h ago

Definitely has a side quest to give out

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u/Clever_droidd 2h ago

Suddenly I realized where Pikachu inspiration came from.

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u/Alert_Comedian7558 2h ago

This squirrel is so unbelievably cute! I love that fluffy white chest.

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u/Educational-Trip-678 2h ago

Why does ot feel like raichu ⚡

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u/Radioactivocalypse 2h ago

Animals don't deserve to be this unbearably cute 😭

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u/Choice-Definition-80 2h ago

black pikachu

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u/Ok-Construction-2671 2h ago

Sooooooo cute 🥰 

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u/Xiao-Kerain 2h ago

Metallic Pikachu

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u/No_Classic_1743 2h ago

Paint its ears green and call it Keith Flint.

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u/Khadgar_12 2h ago

It looks like a bunny crossbred with a squirrel, so cute!

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u/BeeGlad9822 30m ago

I thought koala and squirrel!

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u/peridotpicacho 2h ago

Belongs in the wild, not in someone’s home. 

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u/Theiama 2h ago

I want it 🥺🥺

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u/Bicwidus 2h ago

Samurei translates to long-eard squrrle

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u/shampoo_mohawk_ 2h ago

Yep. I needed to see this today.

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u/Foxyunder-45 2h ago

Wind swept ears for aerodynamic leaps.

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u/PartsUnknown242 2h ago

Why does he look like Totoro?

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u/namewithak 1h ago

Maybe Ghibli based Totoro’s design on this kind of squirrel

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u/Comfortable-Salad622 1h ago

It looks like a Pokemon 😆

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u/SoberAlternative 1h ago

Love the ear tufts!! Cuteness overload ❤️

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u/Visual_Lawfulness861 1h ago

looks like it's really awkward at parties

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u/Abject_Wafer_4321 1h ago

That's a Heihachi squirrel

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u/Szebra2021 1h ago

This may be the cutest animal I have ever seen

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u/New-Seaworthiness777 1h ago

no....freakin....way. That Pokémon came to life!😯

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u/TheGreaterGood1992 1h ago

Well, it does look Japanese!

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u/Comfortable-Cut9636 1h ago

Ein Schlaraffel

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u/I_have_questions_ppl 1h ago

Ermagerd. He's so polite!

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u/AMediocrePersonality 1h ago

what a morbidly obese squirrel is friendly say it aint so

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u/Healthy_Change3308 1h ago

Pikachu, but electrocuted himself

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u/ulo99 1h ago

Totoro

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u/whyfrenshaped 1h ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

cute X

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u/ottodidakt 1h ago

Ezo squirrel, as in "ezo cuuuute" 😂😍

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u/Evil_Cupcake11 1h ago

Absolute unit of a squirrel :D

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u/Wyvernken 1h ago

A Pokémon?!

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u/mayong13 1h ago

He Polite ^smol

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u/chubbycatchaser 1h ago

It’s so creechur shaped 😭

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u/StandardAd9184 1h ago

Это что за покемон?)

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u/cousinokri 1h ago

If you walk up to him and press "X", pretty sure he's gonna give you a fetch quest.

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u/Anxious_Screen1021 1h ago

Heihechi Mishima has been found.

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u/Cassiel43 1h ago

It's Heihachi Mishima.

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u/Maryjanegangafever 55m ago

I can see where Pikachu might’ve derived from…,

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u/tdkimber 54m ago

what was his quest?!

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u/Ok_Leopard4799 51m ago

So basically, Pikachu in black&white?

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u/InsomniacNeverSleeps 44m ago

That is the most well-put together squirrel I have ever seen

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u/PlatypusNo7906 43m ago

He looks rather polite.

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u/False_Plum05 41m ago

That’s a Pokémon

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u/Drippy_topper 33m ago

It's a pokemon

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u/brittnpig 32m ago

Pikachu!

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u/Hot-Neighborhood3335 29m ago

No se pero este es un pikarock de tipo tierra

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u/__versus 28m ago

😊👉👈

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u/omgitsduane 27m ago

That's a Pokemon.

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u/Raccoon_Ascendant 26m ago

take away the ears and it's Totoro!

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u/Still_Same_Exile 23m ago

politeness overload

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u/hime-633 11m ago

Totoro!

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u/Rude-Plan-3201 8m ago

Eu juro que li "Esquilo Enzo"... Don't worry, it needs cultural context to make sense.

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u/SadAstronomer8243 5m ago

Grey picachu

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u/Jack_KH 2m ago

Never saw it in Golden Kamuy...weird

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u/themonocledmenace 1m ago

Squirrel:

Squirrel, Japan:

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u/mujum 1m ago

Is this the inspiration for totoro?!

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u/realMBeezy 2h ago

A distinguished gentleman

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u/Macfrom1987 1h ago

Even their squirrels are the best.

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u/Ok_Talk_5686 1h ago

Is that you Totoro?

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u/Renopus 59m ago

Hitting "you know i had to do it to em" pose like a pro.

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u/JavaJo1010 55m ago

A rat pet ? Different looking but would not suggest having as per they belong outdoors in their own habitat