The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is peak evolutionary absurdity made manifest.
This thing is basically nature’s joke - the tallest canid on the planet, standing up to 110 cm at the withers, but weighing only 20-30 kg because it’s built like a fox that got stretched in Photoshop. Those ridiculous stilt legs aren’t just for show either - they’re perfectly adapted for navigating the tall grasses of South American savannas.
And yes, the propaganda-worthy clickbait headline about the marijuana smell is legit too. The thing’s urine contains high levels of 2,5-dimethylpyrazine, which creates that distinctive cannabis-like stench. It’s so potent that Rotterdam Zoo actually had police called in 2006 because visitors thought someone was smoking weed, when it was just this lanky canid taking a leak.
The evolutionary weirdness doesn’t stop there:
- It’s neither fox nor wolf, despite looking like both
- Lives completely solo unlike pack canids
- Eats mostly fruit and small rodents
- Makes a sound called “roar-barking”
- Split from the wolf/coyote lineage about 9-10 million years ago
Sometimes reality beats any fiction we could code up. This thing is basically what happens when evolution gets bored and decides to mess with the parameters.
🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱
urine that smells like marijuana
Pee on me, daddy long legs 😩
This one right here, officer
I like a fox with long legs that smells like weed.
“Officer, I swear I wasn’t smoking! It was the wolf-fox piss.”
MILDLY interesting??? No no no. This is FASCINATING!!!
Why’s his legs so long? Why’s his piss smell like weed? What’s his mating ritual look like?
What? You’re telling me with everything else going on with this creature, you don’t think he has a sex life that books should be written about???
It’s just like those conjoined twins Abby and Britney. You KNOW you could spend all day asking sex questions, but nobody ever does!!! We’re all thinking it. Just basic shit like what happens if Abby is an anal slut and loves it, but Britney finds it demeaning and painful? Are you able to have anal sex with Abby? Or would that be rape of Britney?
What happens if one is asleep but the other one is masturbating? Does the asleep one have a sex dream?
People can’t tickle themselves, but can Britney tickle Abby?
These are questions nobody is asking, but we NEED answers before they die!
South american here, I grew up knowing those animals and capybaras and I find fascinating when the rest of the world get to know those creatures and have a blast. It is cool that something trivial for me is something amusing for someone else.
Here are two interesting( I guess) shots:
It’s called a maned wolf and lives in the prairies of southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina. Its legs are long to see over the tall grass. Don’t know about the piss. It’s a big but shy boy. Endangered.
Also known as Aguará Guazú, meaning big fox in guaraní.
Also Lobo Guará in Portuguese. Lobo meaning wolf, and guará as a loanword from guarani meaning fox.
If this comment doesn’t deserve an upvote, I have no idea what does.
Username also checks out.
Not just lost mind, lost serious as well. Now go and generate some Abby and Britney porn to work out this obsession.
I’d smoke it at least once.
The fox-wolf piss?
smokin on straight FOX WOLF YERN 😤
Yeah, sure, Kenny McCormick.
Get her a modelling contract
Pair him with the binturong with the popcorn piss and you have a great Saturday night
My partner and I got to meet two baby Binturong and they let them climb all over us and they were soooooo cute and their lil claws were so sharp and we cried
They didn’t popcorn piss on us, luckily.
Maned wolves have a musky odor very similar skunks. I volunteered at a facility that cared for one of these and can confirm.
Weed smells like weed.
When nature wants to one-up fursonas. Luckily, I’m a wolf-tiger-fox hybrid. Though I don’t have the weed pee…
I bet he’s a good boy
You guys weren’t supposed to find my animal form.
It’s not even a wolf!
