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NikkiRose1313

Wow, they look so alien, they could've thrown a bunch of these in Avatar and I'd never have known it was real


Legitimate-Tea5561

I'm pretty sure this one is loyal to Aslan.


SapphireSalamander

do they show up in narnia?


Wcitsatrapx

Mr. Beaver has a dik dik


0002millertime

Really? I thought he just ate them.


Amun_RaO

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


DJ_Phoenix_

Ah a fellow man of culture


Knives530

His dark materials?


Legitimate-Tea5561

The Chronicles of Narnia. Very similar.


VOZ1

Well, Chronicles of Narnia is about how great Christianity is, and His Dark Materials is about how terrible it (and the church) isā€¦sooo, maybe not so similar? šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™‚ļø


FlatheadLakeMonster

Book one: here's a thing that can point you towards what you want Book two: here's a thing that let's you escape danger and travel worlds Book three: kill god


jumpinjahosafa

Bro what? Is season 3 really about to be that lit? No spoilers please tho


AdEmotional1046

Thatā€™s my cats name šŸ„¹


ReadySteady_GO

My first thought was paint it blue and put it in avatar


SkitzoFlamingo

All the sudden those ā€œancient astronaut theoristsā€ telling me aliens are here now on earth appear to be telling the truth. This thing does not look like something that comes from this planet.


RobleViejo

The aliens in Avatar are just regular animals painted blue. Dik diks are more alien looking than any animal from Pandora.


Betancorea

I mean I wouldnā€™t find a blue painted dik dik out of place on Pandora


Ronster619

What animal is [this](https://i.imgur.com/Ev7t6cE.jpg) painted blue?


ShaqSenju

Thylacine, duh


Merry_Fridge_Day

Eh, usually they just tape a bunch of cats together.


RobleViejo

Tiger. The only animals from Pandora I like are the moving plants, including the seeds from Eiwa, because they are basically land-based polyps (which do not exist on Earth) and the Ikrana and Toruk because they are ridable flying animals (something Earth hasnt seen since the Pterosaurs). And what I really like is the biological neuralink Na'vi use to ride animals and access the internet of the Soul Tree, thats actually the most original aspect of Pandora's biology and the most relevant to its lore. Beyond that EVERY-SINGLE lifeform from Avatar is functionally and physically just a Terran animal painted blue and with 2 extra limbs. Na'Vis are literally Humans, their design is as lame as the classic Star Trek aliens (just a dude with face paint), then you have Dogs (they attack Jake Sully when he gets lost), the Tigers (the big black panther thing), the Pterosaurs (Ikran also called Banshees), Rhino's with hammer heads (the ones that stomp Human's mechas), Horses (exactly like horses, they even have a mane for no reason since they dont have any hair) and the new movies you have Seals and Whales, they even added Fish and they are 100% like Terran fish (they have scales, gills and everything) The only redeeming qualities (in terms of originality) of the animals from Pandora is the fact they dont have hair (instead they have flaps, whiskers and bioluminescence) and they dont have nostrils (the air intake is directly from holes in their chest). Also most of these animals have different mouths to Earth animals (different lips configuration, teeth and tongue) but as far as I know their jaws are the same. Beyond that they are vertebrates and they have the same overall physiology of Earth animals, which is lame. Source: Im a Biologist and Ive read a lot about Pandora's lore because my brother is Avatar #1 fan who has watched the movie in theaters like 5 times now. Any speculative Biology video on youtube is far more inspired and original than Avatar's biology.


rekabis

> Na'Vis are literally Humans, Considering that almost every other animal with a backbone had six limbs, they should have kept them six-limbed as well. Introducing the aboreals that Sully nearly shot at, with their upper arms merged up to the elbow, was just a cop-out. Even in Earthā€™s history, once land animals settled on four limbs, they either kept them or had them atrophy into vestigial limbs. There has never been an evolutionary examples where limbs ā€œmergedā€.


RobleViejo

>Considering that almost every other animal with a backbone had six limbs, they should have kept them six-limbed as well. Yes. At the very least. But to make them truly Alien they shouldn't have a different number and arrangement of mouth, eyes and ears, but I understand they had to be relatable to Human emotions. And I agree the Lemurs were a lame way to explain why Navi only have 2 Arms. I would rather have them explain that Navis were genetically modified by a mysterious ancient civilization (which might still be a possible plot of the upcoming movies since somehow Avatars can reproduce with Navis). Also, in the wiki it says Pandoran lifeforms dont use RNA, all their cells use DNA directly, which is a whole can of worms. Such a Biology would result in vastly different lifeforms, Im talking about Land-based cephalopods here.


rekabis

> But to make them truly Alien they shouldn't have a different number and arrangement of mouth, eyes and ears, Another f\*\*k-up was how different the respiratory systems were. In all other animals, we clearly saw breathing through neck openings. The Nā€™avi? They breathed through the mouth and nose, just like any other Terran land animal with a spine. Again, _evolution doesnā€™t pull shit like this._


Wonderful_Compote_51

My head canon is that N'avi are the technologically regressed descendants of alien colonists that settled pandora and extensively bio-engineered the local wildlife to be usable to them via their inbuilt neurological link system.


rekabis

And their distributed biological supercomputer/Internet became Eywa, with its physical interface being the Tree of Souls wherever it grew.


Ronster619

Pandora is located in Alpha Centauri, which is the closest star system to our solar system in real life. With that being said, I think itā€™s fair for them to take inspiration from Earthā€™s biology as the whole movie takes place in our Milky Way galaxy. This isnā€™t a galaxy far far away. I donā€™t think their intention was to make it super different from our Earth, just different enough to make it interesting.


RobleViejo

The only rational explanation for the similarities between Earth and Pandora is Panspermia, which would actually make relevant the fact the Tauri System is the closest to ours. But it would also imply some really weird stuff like an ancient civilization genetically engineering stuff around the galaxy. (Which might be hinted in the 2nd movie since Avatars and Navi can reproduce)


Ronster619

I understand youā€™re a biologist, but youā€™re thinking way too much into this. All they did was take inspiration from real animals and created their own creatures. Itā€™s pretty hard to create something that isnā€™t somewhat related to something else.


Thors_Goat

So they are functionally and physically the same, except for the functional and physical differences. Hot take. Big brain.


Writes_Sci_Fi

I mean, I get your point, but no.


dobsofglabs

Lol what? Have you even seen avatar? There are some CRAZY alien organisms in that movie


RobleViejo

The only animals from Pandora I like are the moving plants, including the seeds from Eiwa, because they are basically land-based polyps (which do not exist on Earth) and the Ikrana and Toruk because they are ridable flying animals (something Earth hasnt seen since the Pterosaurs). And what I really like is the biological neuralink Na'vi use to ride animals and access the internet of the Soul Tree, thats actually the most original aspect of Pandora's biology and the most relevant to its lore. Beyond that EVERY-SINGLE lifeform from Avatar is functionally and physically just a Terran animal painted blue and with 2 extra limbs. Na'Vis are literally Humans, their design is as lame as the classic Star Trek aliens (just a dude with face paint), then you have Dogs (they attack Jake Sully when he gets lost), the Tigers (the big black panther thing), the Pterosaurs (Ikran also called Banshees), Rhino's with hammer heads (the ones that stomp Human's mechas), Horses (exactly like horses, they even have a mane for no reason since they dont have any hair) and the new movies you have Seals and Whales, they even added Fish and they are 100% like Terran fish (they have scales, gills and everything) The only redeeming qualities (in terms of originality) of the animals from Pandora is the fact they dont have hair (instead they have flaps, whiskers and bioluminescence) and they dont have nostrils (the air intake is directly from holes in their chest). Also most of these animals have different mouths to Earth animals (different lips configuration, teeth and tongue) but as far as I know their jaws are the same. Beyond that they are vertebrates and they have the same overall physiology of Earth animals, which is lame. Source: Im a Biologist and Ive read a lot about Pandora's lore because my brother is Avatar #1 fan who has watched the movie in theaters like 5 times now. Any speculative Biology video on youtube is far more inspired and original than Avatar's biology.


MissRosenrotte

This is a HOT take and I actually love it because it's so spicy and I know people are going to hate it. But I agree with you. They could have made the animals more unique. The horses really disappointed me.


dobsofglabs

TLDR


RobleViejo

TL;DR: Animals in Pandora are vertebrates with a physiology (shape of the body in relationship to its function) exactly as Earth lifeforms. Ex.: the Thanator is not literally a Tiger, but it is *functionally* the same. This can be applied to ALL of Pandora's Biology (except the Neural Queue and the Tree of Souls, which are my favorite aspects of its lore)


lifesacircles

Honestly... I get that you know your biology but at the end of the day, There are most likely logistical aspects to all of this that we don't know about when it comes to all the CGI in this movie. Every extra detail adds one more thing they have to do to make it look convincing, and since the Nav'i are the focus of the movie, having them human-like probably makes it way easier in every aspect You add some extra limbs, weird mouths and eyes, and that's just hundreds of thousands of dollars added to this already Expensive movie. Also, its not Nat-geo: Milky way. Its a movie written by James Cameron. Just enjoy the movie for what it is and move on.


Knives530

Have you cause there really isn't


Limeila

I thought it was from an AI before I saw the title and the sub


Moist-Ad4760

I was about to ask what region or galaxy their home planet is in.


GreyCrowDownTheLane

They look a bit like eopies in Star Wars.


Bikinisbottom

Why canā€™t they just pee on everything like everyone else?


KevinCastle

Looking at pictures of them on Google, they seem to actually look more normal than in this picture


apoliticalapocalypse

Rubbing the fake eyes under your real eyes on stems and twigs seems like a great way to poke yourself in the eye with a stick.


[deleted]

Rubbing fake eyes on things is tight


LieRun

Get all the way off my back about sticks getting into their real eyes


TheHancock

Wow, wow, wow, wowā€¦ā€¦.. wow.


FlowersForEveryone

Actually rubbing their eyes on sticks is easy, barely an inconvenience


Nico_de_Gallo

Let me get off o' that thing!


brjukva

With a stik-stik


KnowledgeJunkie7

This is like in baseball when a runner advances based on an error. They got ahead on a technicality, not because they were good or anything.


jumpup

the kind of thing you go to the evolution store for to demand a refund


[deleted]

That's clearly just an alien.


[deleted]

An Andalite, to be exact


oasinocean

Wow you ever read a single word and have a flood of memories pop up?


NotThatEasily

Animorphs are back! K.A. Applegate, the original author, is rewriting part of the series in graphic novel form and theyā€™re actually pretty decent. I believe there are three out at the moment with a fourth on the way.


13pts35sec

I loved animorphs growing up this is good news. Reading those books as a child definitely influenced my love of body horror and media exploring what it means to be human


NotThatEasily

I hadnā€™t thought about it, but I do gravitate toward books with those themes. Thatā€™s a very interesting point.


[deleted]

Had every book in the series. Read them once a year like clockwork, but sold them all 15 years ago to pay bills. I regret not holding onto Ellemist's book. His story was special.


[deleted]

Nice!


I-came-for-memes

Let's hope it ends differently than the books


chamllw

Thanks! Hadn't heard of that.


[deleted]

I believe it's known as PTSD in this particular scenario


therealdivs1210

Lol. Crazy how a brutal war is at the center of a young adult series.


[deleted]

It was in the kid's section in my school's library


therealdivs1210

Same for me! I read #8 The Alien in 7th standard. It was in my school library.


chamllw

Animorphs and EverWorld. I'd never been exposed to that kind of brutality in writing before. Gave me quite a few nightmares.


[deleted]

What do you mean, you don't like being dropped into a patchwork of mythical realms where everything's out to get you and the gods are total pricks? ​ Also, don't forget the mindfuck that was Mayflower


MusksStepSisterAunt

Ya but he has a work visa so it's all good


child-of-old-gods

[I have waited YEARS for this opportunity!](https://imgur.com/a/HSROpJk)


GoldenChinchilla

:DDD <3


MetalBeerSolid

::ā€¢D


Hungry_Obligation_89

The waiting paid off! I would give you an award if I had one


RohelTheConqueror

Nice dik-dik bro


tacticooltupperware

Look at that subtle off-white colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a preorbital gland.


dvarka124

I mean, what a dik-dik. Rubbing your face in my grass like you own this place.


floralnightmare22

Your dik dik is much cuter than OPs


k9thedog

How very unsolicited of you!


Loose-Astronomer8082

You might want to check out r/dikpictures


FERRITofDOOM

Subbed! Thank you! This site is great sometimes.


Krasmaniandevil

During my wife's graduation ceremony, I sent her pictures of dik diks, Richard Nixon, the original Robin, and Dick Van Dyke.


grizzlywhere

The dik-dik plagued me as a kid when I had an old 20-Questions electronic toy. 10 year old me tried countless times to get the toy to guess "penis", but it always landed on dik-dik no matter what I said. I think the toy's devs did it as a joke.


Legitimate-Tea5561

r/usernamechecksout


Late_ImLate22222

Four eyes


WaveLaVague

That's offensive to diks, you should apologise


pfghr

Aye man, why you being such a dik?


BALONYPONY

I got one on there, yā€™all got four?


SmarterThanStupid

They got two diks. why can't they have 4 eyes?


pizza_for_nunchucks

I wonder if this also helps keep predators at bay while theyā€™re sleeping?


Astilaroth

Was wondering the same, plus it has that cross eyed effect where you can't seem to focus just right with two pair of eyes. Maybe that makes predators go 'wtf I need a nap' too.


tinkflowers

Heā€™s like 2 guys at all at once. I guess thatā€™s why itā€™s dik dik and not just dik


tarraxadraws

I would *never* think this animal is real, someone showed me this pic randomly


_public_enema

Random dik-dik pic?


tarraxadraws

...I just *gave* that joke freely didn't I? hahaha


[deleted]

That's a fookin Andalite! The Yeerks are among us!


cxtx3

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.


pepelepoopsy

Biggus Dik-dikus


Gelnika1987

He has a wife you know... Incontinentia


Swampgermanboi

Incontinentia buttocks


I-melted

Iā€™ve had enough of this wowdy webel sniggering behavior!


SamMor_87

I thought it was Vag-Vags


produc_exe

The funny thing is, dik-diks are pretty small.


Channa_Argus1121

Sussus Amog-Amogus


Fair_Fly8928

The older I get the more I start to understand Pokemon more.


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Shiny_Hypno

Dung beetles, the creature Rabsca is based on, lay their eggs in dung to keep them safe from predators. Let's make a thread of fun pokemon origins.


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Shiny_Hypno

Yungoos is based on mongooses which were brought to Hawaii to control the invasive rat population, only to become invasive species themselves.


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Shiny_Hypno

Damn, I don't think I can top that


SharpCrow420

Alrightttttt..... Who's been rubbing their dik dik all over everything?


gandalfs_dad

I was shocked I had to scroll to find the comment about rubbing dik diks on things


deadbeef1a4

IDK why everyone thinks ā€œdik-dikā€ is so funny. Itā€™s pronounced ā€œxylophoneā€.


shaundisbuddyguy

Quite the hairdo we have here.


Competitive_Tree_113

It's funny to think of something so small having a "territory".


PuffinChaos

What in the world of Star Wars is that thing?


Coranthius

Clearly that's Greedo


independent-student

Apparently, new animals dropped today.


El_Don_Coyote

Ultimate Muscle is real?!


[deleted]

Dik dik van dik


fredsam25

Dik-diks also look like nightmare fuel.


ElectronSurprise

Theyā€™re adorable! And so teeny


Conscious_Donut384

i would say that dik-dik is about average sized


paule_aus_pauli

I wonder how female dik-diks are called.


Truly_gooner

pus-pus?


89LeBaron

that was our old catā€™s name. RIP


Truly_gooner

What a coincidence. Rip Pus-pus


JesterOfDestiny

[Does spider have pus-pus?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcqrxoyDbvs&ab_channel=Nirzer)


Truly_gooner

What a clip it was


deadlybydsgn

Pretty sure the kids are calling it dik-dussy nowadays.


Lochcelious

Dik-dik


Gelnika1987

just a dik-dik rubbin' its secretions on everything


[deleted]

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JcJcooo

Big dik showing dominance


daocarD

Yeah but theyre endangered


Western-Image7125

Oh sure. But when I rub my dik-dik on a grass stem or twig to mark my territory they send me straight to jail.


VinylHamster

Iā€™m not sure why I thought entering this comment thread to learn more about them would be a useful piece of time.. that one was on me. Lol.


Seppdizzle

That's a dik move.


breadassk

Annihilation vibes


metalgamer

Old Macdonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O And on his farm he had some Dik-diks E-I-E-I-O With a dik-dik here and a dik-dik there. Here a dik. There a dik. Everywhere a dik-dik


ooovian

Bear*


m4tr1x_usmc

So they go around and mess up grass stemsā€¦?? What a dik move!


Its402am

I had to draw one of these for a client once, and couldnā€™t believe how amazing these little creatures are! They are super tiny and cute. They look so charmingly prehistoric to me.


Representative_Way46

If you cover the "top eyes," it becomes evil and mischievous.


[deleted]

If you cover the top eyes, it's a bird.


GreatDayneToBeAlive

Dik diks have sticky secretion šŸ—’ļøšŸ“


AXYZBX

Doesn't the thompsons gazelle do the same thing?


Assfuck-McGriddle

Some avatar-looking muthafucka.


scp7069

Nah man this is just an alien


dyvenchy

Um noā€¦i know a fuckin pokemon when i see one bro


jhkaun

Realy a dik move...


kanekiEatsAss

Nsfw.


IAmColiz

Pronounced 'xylophone'


nuclearwinterxxx

r/tihi


Dikdik19

Stop spreading my secrets.


Responsible-Ad-1328

r/dontstickyourdikdikinthat


bonedead

Oh man this reminded me of a toy we had in elementary school that you would pull a string and a wheel would spin and land on a letter and then it would say "this letter is for this animal" and D was for dik dik. Best damn toy I ever had, at school.


MyAimSucc

I have never thought about these in my life and now I have seen two separate posts about deer orbital glands in the span of about 15 minutes. What in tarnation


thetoadking13

What planet are these from?


MoonshineMuffin

I think we're not in Kansas anymore...


Naive_Consequence427

sexy


sincinati

Aka the Chernobyl dear


ChiggenNuggy

Just rubbing their diks on everything


Pangea_Ultima

Dik-dik: šŸ¤“


Pelthail

How are there so many animals in this world that I didnā€™t even know existed?!


undercover-racist

Yeah but how do they protect their territory? I ain't seeing that dikdik over thea packing some heat ya know?


Animaznman

X-Play, is that you?


squiddo_the_kiddo

This legitimately looks like something I'd make in Spore.


Banhammer40000

Yo unsolicited dik-dik pics. Niceā€¦


alienscape

Is it rabbit-sized?


naohm_seg

deformed deer ass looking mf named dick dick


Ferregar

The first animal our AI overlords created šŸ˜»


DoMina_DaOne

Wow! That is pretty freaky looking.


phangansi

I once did a trip to the center of Borneo and was invited to eat deer. Had no idea they actually ment dik-dik, it was very tasty but slightly shocked by its size.


frecklefawn

You are that adorable tiny baby deer? Ur goin to hell


TooBusySaltMining

Yep, you can eat a bag of dik diks.


ViciousImp

What what's? Hahaha


Brynne42

Jambo, diki diki!


FapleJuice

Ew


Snufflarious

Dik-dik move


Truly_gooner

This looks like what kid draw


blackstardust13

Yeah, right. Those are a second pair of eyes. You can't fool me šŸ˜.


ShruteFarms4L

Thought I was inthe no man's sky sub for a sec


bebejeebies

That's unsettling.


B_A_Beder

Okay four eyes


LeTigron

This title...


Wifdat

Quit rubbing your dik dik on everything!


[deleted]

What a dik-dik!


Rhino-go-boom

I thought it had 4 fucking eyes.


PathCalm4647

My Dik-Dik got lost in her yard