r/BeAmazed • u/L0kivich • 17h ago

Animal Japanese raccoon dogs called Tanuki.

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u/Helpful_Spring8739 16h ago

Elaborate.

Actually, nvm. Don't.

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u/anowlenthusiast 16h ago

Tanukis have some special, magical abilities in Japanese folklore.

(From the studio ghibli film, pom poko. great stuff)

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u/Helpful_Spring8739 16h ago

I am choosing to believe those are tails.

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u/VocalLocalYokel 15h ago

Congratulations, but you're wrong. Embrace the 10 ft wingspan of a tanuki's testicular sack.

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u/VisibleData3435 15h ago

no, you can't say wingspan. That's a sack-span, or trans-scrotal-spread measurement. Maybe someone with a sufficiently prestigious PHD could give us a more scientific term.

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u/Ok-Syllabub-6619 11h ago

Sure, I have the PHD of "poked shit with a stick when young" and thats called an algebraic trancenuttental circumference equation or "alot of deez"

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u/AllezVites 1h ago

What is the lift coefficient of a scrotal flight surface?

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u/SoupmanBob 14h ago

Aren't they Mujina?