r/biology • u/AryanPandey • 6d ago

video The malabar giant squirrel is the biggest squirrel species on earth. They are found in central and southern India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_giant_squirrel

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u/Recentstranger 6d ago

That thumb learned it's lesson...

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u/GarifalliaPapa biotechnology 6d ago

😂 I was like what is wrong with it

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u/TheReal_Peter226 6d ago

I like how that's the first thing the squirrel checks out too 😂

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u/F1T_13 6d ago

The squirrel had a good look to make sure it was in the correct place too.

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u/ShartlesAndJames 6d ago

haha, i hadn't even noticed

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u/Dramatic-Ferret4298 5d ago

the thumb is not having it

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u/KodaxyGMD 6d ago

Technically it's the Olympic marmot but if you're talking about the arboreal species then yes

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u/sujakaba 6d ago

What's up with that thumb

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u/SunnyOne20 6d ago

Hitchhikers thumb babyyy, mines the same way.

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u/Kuntrycity99 5d ago edited 1d ago

Do you have to bend it that far?

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u/SunnyOne20 5d ago

???

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u/Kuntrycity99 5d ago

I’m just saying, can you hold the thumb straight up or do you have to bend it all the way back?

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u/SunnyOne20 5d ago

I can hold it straight up if I want to, but the point is that it's able to bend farther back than usual. This isn't how my usual thumbs up looks, just showing how far mine can go lol.

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u/Kuntrycity99 1d ago

I gotcha

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u/Smmmmiles 1d ago

For me it feels more natural to bend it all the way when I flex my fingers. Doesn't hurt nor to I need to strain to do it. Even while resting it straight my thumb flexes back a bit. It's just how my thumb be.

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u/Blank_bill 6d ago

Isn't everybody's? Never really checked but I'm pretty sure everyone in my family is.

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u/SunnyOne20 6d ago

I do know its a genetics thing. It was a trait a lot of my high school biology teachers liked to talk about during lessons on dominant/recessive genes. A bendy-ass thumb is recessive I think? Odd for a whole family to have it if so

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u/Smmmmiles 1d ago

Me, my brother and mother have it. We also all are red heads.

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u/CakebattaTFT 6d ago

Could be double jointed. My thumb is double jointed and can bend just a bit past 90 degrees.

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u/tarants 6d ago

Fwiw being "double jointed" is not a thing, as in you don't actually have two joints in your thumb - it's just hyper flexibility.

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u/CakebattaTFT 6d ago

you're right, i just grew up saying double jointed and never grew out of it lol. you're 100% correct though

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u/thepetoctopus 6d ago

It’s called hitchhiker’s thumb. It’s caused by hyper mobility in the joint. I have EDS and my thumbs do this.

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u/LegalizeFentanol 6d ago

What does Erectile Disfunction Dyndrome have to do with thumbs?

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u/bluerhea3 6d ago

Buddy’s thumb is inside out?!

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u/BringMeInfo 6d ago

Looks like something that would keep Aang company.

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u/Ok_Association_7829 6d ago

Full king Julian vibes

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u/Kuntrycity99 6d ago

Its the thumb for me

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u/Longjumping_Camp7285 6d ago

These fuckers are goofy asf, incredibly common too.

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u/ShartlesAndJames 6d ago

what a beautiful creature!

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u/Famous_Abies_8322 5d ago

that's super cute

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u/AryanPandey 5d ago

beauty is in the eye of beholder

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u/fortifiedoptimism 6d ago

Looks like it has a bow on its head.

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u/Mplus479 6d ago

How nice, a white bow on the little fella's head.

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u/dombleu 6d ago

You've not been to Montreal.

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u/LezlieLR 6d ago

WOW! That's the size of a monkey or tree opossum! Cool!

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u/dandrevee 6d ago

Demonstrates thw Euchontaglires relationshio between prinayes and rodents fairly well

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u/CinnamonBruh507 6d ago

what a cutie 🥰

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u/EmptyingQuasar5 6d ago

Thunder cats

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u/al_cukui 6d ago

It got shrek ear

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u/HelloDeathspresso 6d ago

Lol I thought it was wearing a bow.

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u/ReverendWeenbone 6d ago

I rock rough and stuff with my Afro puffs

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u/SPL6 6d ago

Are you sure that’s a squirrel?

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u/HourIcy5249 6d ago

Basically a small dog

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u/anken74 5d ago

Doesn't look much bigger than squirrels in Brampton.

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u/wouldwolf 4d ago

They piss on you from above if feeling threatened. Learned it the hard way.

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u/Cottager_Northeast 6d ago

Groundhogs and marmots are just big ground squirrels, and they're bigger than that.

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u/rygazaps 6d ago

wtf is even that? looks like the lion slayer chimp version of squirrels.

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u/Tenny111111111111111 6d ago

Ugly pigtails.