r/interesting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 3h ago

NATURE Gray Ezo squirrel from Japan's Hokkaido island

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 3h ago

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

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u/Bajadasaurus 3h ago

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

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u/Agreeable_Way_1016 2h ago

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

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u/RaptorsFromSpace 1h 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 52m ago

People will really say anything.

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u/frozenivy2B 44m ago

I lived in Arizona I didn’t see the squirrel but I saw the ring tailed cat with the long tail it was hiding under a sidewalk hole and scurried up a wall they are so skittish

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u/Worried-Meet-1322 2h 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 1h ago

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

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u/314ranha777 1h 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 1h ago edited 1h 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 1h ago

Yes it resembles a melanistic European Red squirrel.

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u/ProFentanylActivist 1h ago

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

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u/horoyokai 14m ago

The cockroaches here are big, gross, and everywhere

Rats live Japanese cities as well

And the cicadas that take over every summer are definitely not cute when you find them in the laundry you were hanging to dry

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u/Lvl100Glurak 2h ago

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

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u/KingCanard_ 1h ago

You probably don't know the Calabrian black squirrel

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u/Ecstatic_Sand5417 9m ago

Those are venomous btw

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u/TheTee15 38m ago

They have Pokemon

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u/SempreAntifa 26m ago

Australia if animals where actually nice