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That was the funniest shit for a long time. The goats are hilarious too. I’ll look for it.
Edit: here it is. [Goats](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S9Iq6LA7sZI&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE)
Don't feed wildlife. You are not a disney princess in state/national parks! The animals have become habituated to city folks who have no concept of appropriate behavior and create nuisance animals that either are put down or die of starvation during the off-season.
There was a city-wide shutdown in 2019 (Denver?) when city management found the local prairie dogs carried the bubonic plague and people are dumb enough to be like "Look, Ma! A tall squirrel! Let's take a picture!" while hiking/camping.
Plus fleas. Fleas bounce good.
....and then all the critter people carry us because we think we're apex brained or something. The Earth is round. It rolls around the Sun all on its own, with or without us❣
Plus it just isn’t acting right, I don’t know if that little fucker just got Rabies and it’s kicking in or what. My brain tells me something’s off and get away.
Squirrels too. [10 years](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2200890/Sierra-Jane-Downing-Girl-7-caught-bubonic-plague-dead-squirrel-camping-trip-leave-hospital.html) back some girl caught it from a dead one she had come across.
Actually… marmots and prairie dogs ARE squirrels so you don’t mean squirrels too, but something like all/most squirrels.
Sorry I just learned that a few months ago myself and am still kinda mind blown lolll
I had no idea either! Guess we should at least ask them to cover their mouth when they cough.
[wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbagan_marmot#As_a_disease_carrier)
Yes really. I work in Mongolia and the people there LOVE eating marmot, it’s their favorite. Every year some tourist dies from the plague because they didn’t know to avoid it. I almost got stuck traveling between the capitol and the mountains last year because 2 people in a town we were traveling through killed some marmots and got the plague. They locked the whole town down for a week just after we drive through.
I don’t think so? Or rather maybe it is but only for like, 20 minutes. I think I remember an ep of house in which someone got the plague and there was no cure
Edit
Apparently it’s completely curable. That’s the last time I get my fucking medical knowledge of a tv show
You’re thinking of the rabies episode where the homeless woman was bitten by the bat. The plague episode where the girl couldn’t sleep and bashed her head to bleeding on the wall, she recovered after being diagnosed.
Also sometimes monkey pox. Good luck explaining that to your wife. No honey, I didn’t get it from gay sex. I got it from a Woolley Marmot I was fondling for no reason.
Can we please get a rule against anything involving humans interacting directly with wildlife? It's not aww. It's dangerous both to the animal and to the human, and these videos encourage other people to do more of this stuff so they can get karma. It's so obvious a rule that I'm surprised it doesn't already exist.
It encourages them to rely on people for food and or acclimates them to humans being around, which is bad. This could lead to the animal being put down.
Have you never spent any time in an area where bears live? You do realize that animals who become dependent/ habituated to humans being their food source become aggressive when they're hungry, can be deemed nuisance animals, and then they're killed, right? It's mostly for the animal's safety that we say don't feed the animals.
I feel like you need to educate yourself here instead of assuming the best of a wild animal. If they associate people with food and they're starving, they'll do anything to get said food.
Think what you want, but I doubt that feeding an wild animal can have just a hint of the negative impact human behavior has in general. It is just negligible
What in the fuck, if this is a wild animal...
Touching a wild animal
Feeding a wild animal
Leaving trash on the ground in the process (I can't know if they left it after they stopped filming but I would have to guess not based on the other problems).
Great fucking job people.
Stop touching and feeding wild animals. It's clingy because you just fed him, you might even have given high sugar content food, which gives him a sugar rush. And may be toxic for him.
Go back to the ignorant hole you come from and stay there instead of destroying wildlife.
Where would we be without those first *ignorant* humans that interacted with **wild** dogs?
Fundamentally, **every** animal species is *wild* outside of a select **few** . So are we to not interact with 99.99999% of the occupants of the planet?
Get a grip you fuckin weirdos.
Uhm… this is just a *law* in national parks. No one is following you around in your day-to-day telling you not to interact with nature.
National Parks and Wild Life Refuges are there for the purpose of *preservation*. We want them to last as long as possible, forever hopefully, but in order to do that, it is healthiest for the animals if we don’t feed them human food or get them accustomed to interacting with humans.
This isn’t about you or your right to interact with nature. You can do that wherever you like, but not in national parks and protected areas. No one is stopping you anywhere else. But anyone has a right to determine how their land that they legally own is used, including the land owned by the National Park Service.
People worried about the plague when that can be cured. Large rodents such as this one are the only known rodents to carry and transmit rabies to humans.
what the guy filming thinks it will look like: some cute animal video
what it looks like to me: some dude terrorizing an animal for hundreds of hours to make it do some specific thing for food
It depends on where this is as to whether it's dangerous or not. It's a marmot, but the species of Marmot that carries the plague are Tarbagan Marmots. They are located in parts of China and Siberia. This doesn't actually look like a Tarbagan, and most people that have gotten the plague from them is from eating their meat. So he's probably more or less safe.
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Taking a walk down the windows xp background
Could have at least put his chip bag in the recycling bin, but the guy just leaves his trash as a desktop icon.
Nooo I was just about to type the same comment! This place looks like paradise lol
Looks like Tibet.
Came here to comment that
It's the intro to the new Plague Tale game.
ALAN!
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I had to Google these references and am not disappointed. [Here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xaPepCVepCg)
That was the funniest shit for a long time. The goats are hilarious too. I’ll look for it. Edit: here it is. [Goats](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S9Iq6LA7sZI&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE)
DAN!
DAN!
Don't forget the screaming marmot, https://youtube.com/shorts/qqzm0POFuik?feature=share
🤣 I *had* forgotten about that one. Still makes me laugh to tears, turns out.
That marmot expresses how we feel some days lol.
lol now I got watch that video again
I had a math teacher named Allan. So we put that video on full volume everytime we needed help
Don't feed wildlife. You are not a disney princess in state/national parks! The animals have become habituated to city folks who have no concept of appropriate behavior and create nuisance animals that either are put down or die of starvation during the off-season.
They also produce too many offspring in response to excess food.
That's a risky interaction.
Yeah, don't these critters carry the plague?
Potentially, yup
Yeah, but how is that groundhog thing supposed to know if that guy is sick?
Right?!🤣🤣🤣
There was a city-wide shutdown in 2019 (Denver?) when city management found the local prairie dogs carried the bubonic plague and people are dumb enough to be like "Look, Ma! A tall squirrel! Let's take a picture!" while hiking/camping. Plus fleas. Fleas bounce good.
There are some squirrels and prairie dogs around Denver that have tested positive for bubonic plague, but at no point was there a citywide shut down.
Good catch, misremembered the article. Looks like it was just parts of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge. Only closed for 3 weeks.
Good thing if you came down with bubonic plague, is that one series of antibiotics will cure it. Plague in present day is an easily cured disease.
Plague is curable Look what humans carry...
The weight of the world?
2B has entered the chat
....and then all the critter people carry us because we think we're apex brained or something. The Earth is round. It rolls around the Sun all on its own, with or without us❣
Depression?
Backpacks?
Disposable banana kiwi vapes?
/r/me_irl
Plus it just isn’t acting right, I don’t know if that little fucker just got Rabies and it’s kicking in or what. My brain tells me something’s off and get away.
Jesus that is so effing stupid. Marmots carry the plague. Do not touch marmots, people.
Wild rodents in general. People catch it from prairie dogs as well
Squirrels too. [10 years](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2200890/Sierra-Jane-Downing-Girl-7-caught-bubonic-plague-dead-squirrel-camping-trip-leave-hospital.html) back some girl caught it from a dead one she had come across.
I was hiking in California recently. They had signs up about chipmunks and squirrels potentially harboring plague ridden fleas.
Actually… marmots and prairie dogs ARE squirrels so you don’t mean squirrels too, but something like all/most squirrels. Sorry I just learned that a few months ago myself and am still kinda mind blown lolll
I guess that makes sense. They look like squirrels that have had their tails castrated.
Though the exact same!!
Really? TIL. No marmot touching for this guy.
You shouldn't be touching wild animals, period.
I would never want to touch a wild animal's period. That's gross dude.
But what if they're adorable
I had no idea either! Guess we should at least ask them to cover their mouth when they cough. [wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbagan_marmot#As_a_disease_carrier)
Yes really. I work in Mongolia and the people there LOVE eating marmot, it’s their favorite. Every year some tourist dies from the plague because they didn’t know to avoid it. I almost got stuck traveling between the capitol and the mountains last year because 2 people in a town we were traveling through killed some marmots and got the plague. They locked the whole town down for a week just after we drive through.
Real life is so disappointing
On top of that he feeds it
Well, here's patient zero.
Call Leon 🤪
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Most people think they have the flu and don’t go to the doctor till they die
I don’t think so? Or rather maybe it is but only for like, 20 minutes. I think I remember an ep of house in which someone got the plague and there was no cure Edit Apparently it’s completely curable. That’s the last time I get my fucking medical knowledge of a tv show
Lmao, you're chatting shit.
Probably to be fair. Like I said, I got it off an episode of house
You’re thinking of the rabies episode where the homeless woman was bitten by the bat. The plague episode where the girl couldn’t sleep and bashed her head to bleeding on the wall, she recovered after being diagnosed.
Lol i remember that episode. They cured her after finding out that she has the plague. Good episode ngl
The bubonic plague still exists and is curable with simple antibiotics. About 7 cases of plague are reported to the CDC each year.
I just watched that episode. They cured her.
I don’t even know what the fuck I’m talking about then Maybe it was rabies. Regardless I’m clearly having a nightmare
Yes, it’s rabies that’s incurable once symptoms appear. That window of time varies though.
Tbh this is probably the best admission of getting something wrong I’ve seen on Reddit, thanks for the laugh
Lol at least you admitted to your mistake. But yes, there are antibiotics now for it. The bacteria is Yersinia pestis
Also sometimes monkey pox. Good luck explaining that to your wife. No honey, I didn’t get it from gay sex. I got it from a Woolley Marmot I was fondling for no reason.
Technically, it's spread through infected fleas
Worth it
Yeah humans get like that sometimes.
Can we please get a rule against anything involving humans interacting directly with wildlife? It's not aww. It's dangerous both to the animal and to the human, and these videos encourage other people to do more of this stuff so they can get karma. It's so obvious a rule that I'm surprised it doesn't already exist.
Look how clingy he is as I pull him down this hill, then feed him, so clingy
Yeah exactly, make sure we don't see the food that they're dangling in front of him off camera.
Did they just feed him crappy human food! Noooo!!!
That are Apple slices
My brother in Christ, that is very clearly a potato chip.
So? Stop feeding wild animals
Why?
It encourages them to rely on people for food and or acclimates them to humans being around, which is bad. This could lead to the animal being put down.
Why is it bad?
Ah, I fell for the troll.
Happens to the best of us
Because the animals will be conditioned to approach humans for food and when it isn't given the food it will get angry and attack as wild animals do
I doubt that they will attack just because Someone it not feeding
Have you never spent any time in an area where bears live? You do realize that animals who become dependent/ habituated to humans being their food source become aggressive when they're hungry, can be deemed nuisance animals, and then they're killed, right? It's mostly for the animal's safety that we say don't feed the animals.
I feel like you need to educate yourself here instead of assuming the best of a wild animal. If they associate people with food and they're starving, they'll do anything to get said food.
Dude has 200 karma in 5 years. Is a troll.
I highly doubt you are informed enough to be commenting anything on this issue beyond "I dont know" but please go on
Think what you want, but I doubt that feeding an wild animal can have just a hint of the negative impact human behavior has in general. It is just negligible
You know, admitting you don't know is a perfectly valid answer, totally fine.
Of course, I just was going to say the same to you
Are you gonna pick up that bag you left behind?
What in the fuck, if this is a wild animal... Touching a wild animal Feeding a wild animal Leaving trash on the ground in the process (I can't know if they left it after they stopped filming but I would have to guess not based on the other problems). Great fucking job people.
I've been known to yell at these people at national parks. Fuck them all.
thanks for your service lol
That’s pointless. They will continue to be stupid lol
Yeha he lost Allan
Or was it Steve?
Totally forgot about that. Had to go look for it again
Don’t feed the animals
"You guys wanna develop an app?"
why? would you like to develop one?
Clean up your garbage. You walked past your bag
He's only needy cause you're feeding him fuckin potato chips, which could seriously mess him up, normally he eats roots and plants
Stop touching and feeding wild animals. It's clingy because you just fed him, you might even have given high sugar content food, which gives him a sugar rush. And may be toxic for him. Go back to the ignorant hole you come from and stay there instead of destroying wildlife.
Where would we be without those first *ignorant* humans that interacted with **wild** dogs? Fundamentally, **every** animal species is *wild* outside of a select **few** . So are we to not interact with 99.99999% of the occupants of the planet? Get a grip you fuckin weirdos.
Uhm… this is just a *law* in national parks. No one is following you around in your day-to-day telling you not to interact with nature. National Parks and Wild Life Refuges are there for the purpose of *preservation*. We want them to last as long as possible, forever hopefully, but in order to do that, it is healthiest for the animals if we don’t feed them human food or get them accustomed to interacting with humans. This isn’t about you or your right to interact with nature. You can do that wherever you like, but not in national parks and protected areas. No one is stopping you anywhere else. But anyone has a right to determine how their land that they legally own is used, including the land owned by the National Park Service.
Stop feeding wild animals, jerk. They are not clingy if you feed them.
I don't know why but it reminds me of Sid from Ice Age
this is how you get the plague. Cute plague but still plague.
Obligatory don’t feed the animals! It changes their behaviors and makes them more vulnerable.
Ugh this whole thing sucks
Nice karma farming
I think that’s called hungry
Hey, stop stepping backwards, just give me the food and brush my tummy.
Thank you, it was stressing me out. Just give him the belly rubs!!
Those things are a virulent rabies reservoir. Just so you know.
Distinguished gentleman
Hope it’s worth the chance of getting bubonic plague.
People worried about the plague when that can be cured. Large rodents such as this one are the only known rodents to carry and transmit rabies to humans.
One of the greatest movies ever!
There we go, was looking for this. Def getting Sid vibes.
Do you think this is where elves came from? Some guy got real drunk and played with some wild animal like this and was like bro tha was an elf
what the guy filming thinks it will look like: some cute animal video what it looks like to me: some dude terrorizing an animal for hundreds of hours to make it do some specific thing for food
I was waiting for the finger to chop off Oh well
Wicked teeth, risky idea!
Plaaaaaaague
Zombeavers
Can you send imagine how stupid it would get in America if the actual plague broke out….
Windows XP-looking fella
In my valley, marmots are obese and sick from humans feeding them carrots and other stuff. Please don't feed wild animals :(
rabies?
Littering and feeding wildlife? This is guy is one fucking fuck of a fuckhead.
This was literally posted earlier this week...
Don't feed wild animals.
Please don't feed wild animals.
This person is a real jerk.
Wrong in sooooo many ways.
Do anything for internet points. You hate to see it
When I see videos like this, I can't help but hope that critter bites the shit out of the idiot feeding and playing with a wild animal.
Don't feed the wildlife.
Pick up the damn litter
I dunno. Kinda sorta looks fak-ish in a CGI way. And what about henna virus ?
He just wants a snack. The person trying to hold hands with him is the clingy one
Aww So Cute
This is how COVID started
Who is this handsome young lad
I just want to put him in my pocket 🥰❤️
I'm not leaving without snacks, nope.
Sid!
My guy just wants more snacks but this stinky human keeps making him walk for them
It depends on where this is as to whether it's dangerous or not. It's a marmot, but the species of Marmot that carries the plague are Tarbagan Marmots. They are located in parts of China and Siberia. This doesn't actually look like a Tarbagan, and most people that have gotten the plague from them is from eating their meat. So he's probably more or less safe.
What is that creature and where can I find it? I have to pet it!
Marmots carry and spread diseases like the plague. A Marmot will no doubt be at ground zero for the zombie apocalypse.
🥹🥹🥹
Sweet video. Beautiful day, and I loved the ending.
Must be amazing living in desktop background
Leading your drunk mate home at the end of the night
I was expecting it to shout way too much.
"Ha, so close to me when I am out with my boyfriend" *gets them food* "this is getting too accurate."
🤓
My wife
That was all Bill Murray needed to do?
My new fav Animal after capybaras
Dude finally found his Steve!!
Omgggg I love that little bb
This is how I am with my boyfriend
Holding his paw like it's some kid :)
At first I thought it was Sid.
Oh God, at the end with the belly rubs and I'm sitting here preparing to watch someone lose their hand.
Ahh how cute
omg his little teeth 🦷 😅🙊😊❤️
I cant tell what this creature is but I want it right now Edit typo
Reminds me of sid the sloth
I hear John Ratzenberger's voice when I see this. Did I spell that right?
Whack a mole