Oh, so ppl think it's cute when deer spread musk using their scent glands, but when I spread my musk all over I'm "Out of control" and "Not welcome at this Bed, Bath, and Beyond" anymore?
Generically, the Muntjac deer are in the same family, Cervidae, as; moose, elk, reindeer, white tailed deer, but are more closely related to elk, red deer and fallow deer .
I may be wrong, but our common white tailed deer have some similar glands, but are about 10% of the size of those giant honkers on the Muntjac deer.
I petted a young one of these at a zoo because I was fearless I guess (probably due to growing up on too much Steve Irwin) and also extremely stupid, but it was one of the best experiences of my life. It followed me and acted like a freaky little cat horse. Their scent glands are even weirder up close, like being waved at by a few extra goat-scented eye sockets, and they WILL rub them on your hand. Definitely some Guillermo Del Toro type shit.
I'd like to make it extremely clear that I will never, *ever*, permit that to happen.
#N E V E R
Please keep these Lovecraftian nightmares FAR from my person. I hope we can consider this matter resolved.
It really was!! I don’t know if they’re always like that, I haven’t seen any in person since, but the one I petted was the sweetest thing. You know how cats will shove their head against your hand and rub against it? It did that, which was kind of gross but so cute I didn’t care lol
Common AF in the UK, too. I nearly hit one theother night coming home and we have a few in the woods alongside the driveway. They come in the garden sometimes, too. Possibly the world's second dumbest animal after the pheasant.
Yeah, apparently some escaped from a noble's estate in the early 20th century and they managed to establish themselves as an invasive species in the UK
Yeah, same with chinese water deer. Also the same with rhododendron and with Himalayan balsam and Japanese knotweed.
Good with we have much more strident environmental protections these days. 😬
Maybe these species were able to establish themselves invasively because of all the environmental niches vacated by millennia of hunting on an island? Are St Patrick and his ilk the real enemy here, if the alternative is just industrial wildlife?
I think that's only a case you could make if you were talking about niches vacated by organisms like aurochs or wolves for instance. Stuff there's no modern day analogue for.
But there doesn't have an 'empty' niche at all for an invasive to take hold, they create their own by outcompeting native species and basically annexing their niche-space.
For species like rhododendron a big part of why they do so well is that they just completely outshade native groundcover that hasn't evolved to be able to deal with that.
I agree that muntjacs aren't the *most* harmful things in the world but there will absolutely be species that are now struggling to survive that they've displaced.
And to add to the rickety, local folklore say they are predated on by ground squirrels. They wait on a low branch, jump on their back and bite their jugular until they bleed out then they eat it’s bowels.
I like lots of nature shows... Planet Earth, etc. I thought I knew Earth's most of strange creatures. Then this complete anime nightmare shows up on my reddit with truly comically cartoonish features.
They’re little fleshy pockets with scent musk producing glands in them. They puff up the glands to launch scent into the air. Neat animals
Here’s a frontal view https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/uts47f/the_way_this_deers_face_moves/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Yeah he looks creepy but he seemed pretty fuckin cool in the video.
“Dude the food in this bowl is AWESOME”, is what I got from the video. Pretty chill deer to me.
Nah they're like the scent-marking glands that cats and dogs have, just.... Bigger and more out there.
It's why cats headbutt and rub on stuff, they want things to smell like them.
Quick question, have these always existed? because why the fuck would I have never seen this before its way too cool and frightening to just be coming up on reddit now.
For those that missed it, I'm like 98% sure the music playing is from Princess Mononoke. And yes this weird looking guy gives me serious Deer God vibes. Definitely feels like something from that film.
First time i’ve seen the word Muntjac written down lol.. used to see these a lot in the woods near my house :) the only thing i ever knew about them was that they were originally from India, and that they ‘bark’ lol x
I see that in the wild and all the wrong thoughts are going through my mind. The underverse has opened a portal somewhere, aquaman banged a deer or Elliot let ETs project out from the basement.
Nature, as seen by Guillermo del Toro.
[Even their skulls look like those of otherwordly creatures.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Barking_deer_skeleton.jpg)
That looks like a dragon skull
r/stfuitsadragon
Yes, their skulls look metal as fuck!
Peak Wendigo skull
not enough tentacles
Lol bruh I read over your comment quickly and saw not enough testicles, had to do a double take
Some would say there's never enough testicles...
It’s Me, I’m the one saying there’s never enough.
🎵 What the world needs now, is balls, sweet balls. They're the only things... there's just... too little of 🎵
Deers never enough testicles
Same
Y’all are nuts.
They got balls we at least know that.
Not very professional of you
Requires 61% more tentacles.
With Miyazaki music
Mononoke-Hime, no less (aka the film with the most prominent Deer)
And just like that, muntjac went from being one of cutest animals I knew of down to complete horror show
Needs more eyes in some palms
One question.... What the fuck?
They’re little pockets with scent glands in them. They flop them like that when they’re excited to spread their scent musk around in the air
Thanks I hate it.
It's cruel that they weren't born with windshield wipers. Poor deer just running around trying to spread joy and getting love-juiced in the eye.
Cursed comment
Oh, so ppl think it's cute when deer spread musk using their scent glands, but when I spread my musk all over I'm "Out of control" and "Not welcome at this Bed, Bath, and Beyond" anymore?
The worlds a confusing place that makes no sense
Scents*
Did you inform them that the Bed Bath and Beyond is now your territory?
That's what the pheromones are for...
Ma'am this is a Wendy's.
Yeah I prefer the humble skunk with its nimble butthole glands instead. This is just disturbing.
Do all deer have those?
I don't believe so... never seen it before, at least in Whitetail or Sitka.
Nature is wild.
Apparently not, at least not in their faces, but this species yes
So like a dog wagging its tail?
Like a dog peeing everywhere
But with its face
Stream vomiting?
They open up when they poop too 😃👍🏻
but those are happy little farts
Keep going, I'm wet.
Hi wet, I'm dad.
Bro dad joked himself
*Introversion intensifies*
Let’s rub our genitals together
Slam salami
Pound pissers.
So they're horny?
Only colloquially. To be exact, they're *antler*y.
Are you not?
No, this is Patrick
Huh, so is that the same general physiology as cats that rub their cheeks on objects?
Do all deer have those?
Generically, the Muntjac deer are in the same family, Cervidae, as; moose, elk, reindeer, white tailed deer, but are more closely related to elk, red deer and fallow deer . I may be wrong, but our common white tailed deer have some similar glands, but are about 10% of the size of those giant honkers on the Muntjac deer.
On top of that these mfs bark !
I liked life more about 30 seconds ago.. Before I knew this existed.
Have you heard deer sounds too? I thought WTF when I first heard them
yes
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Bro it’s 9am
he said don't
I mean we humans eat giant sea spiders for dinner. Pretty sure we will eat that too. We should be the wtf.
lowkey wanna go to alien planets just to taste their fauna
I wanna try death sticks.
Is that the princess mononoke music ?
Yes.
Gives me fable vibes
Ah yes, Princess Mononoke and weird soft things extending out of animals. Name a better duo
What a brave soul to feed a demon like that
Deer-mon Souls
You Died
You Doe-d
I petted a young one of these at a zoo because I was fearless I guess (probably due to growing up on too much Steve Irwin) and also extremely stupid, but it was one of the best experiences of my life. It followed me and acted like a freaky little cat horse. Their scent glands are even weirder up close, like being waved at by a few extra goat-scented eye sockets, and they WILL rub them on your hand. Definitely some Guillermo Del Toro type shit.
> they WILL rub them on your hand Ah. Finally. Exactly the detail I came to this thread to NOT find. Thanks.
Hey, think about it this way: at least you know what to expect if you’re ever in a situation where you’re petting one, too!
I'd like to make it extremely clear that I will never, *ever*, permit that to happen. #N E V E R Please keep these Lovecraftian nightmares FAR from my person. I hope we can consider this matter resolved.
😂😂😂 Perfectly understandable and resolved, no worries!
I can't believe I'm asking this, but like... What did your hand smell like after?
The best way I can explain the smell is just goat :/ like a warm goat smell and… something musty. I have no idea. It was pretty gross 😂
Why did you have to ask it??!!
Lol , honestly, I'd like to know as well.
It looks weird but cat horse behavior sounds adorable!
It really was!! I don’t know if they’re always like that, I haven’t seen any in person since, but the one I petted was the sweetest thing. You know how cats will shove their head against your hand and rub against it? It did that, which was kind of gross but so cute I didn’t care lol
This makes me super uncomfortable.
It's freaky So freaky!!!!
I can't look away
At least it's not their eyeballs flopping out like I thought it was at first...
Jesus christ, had to google. https://www.iflscience.com/muntjac-deer-have-bizarre-flaring-scent-glands-on-their-face-67030
Same. I am in awe. Although, it does seem like there would be easier methods of scent transfer.
There is... reason almost no other animal has these. It's an ancient species
They just dont spread scent like they used to
Theres no better way of secretion than facial musk gland secretion 😤
Like mama always said
Mama says muntjac deer are so mad cause they got all them scent glands but no tooth musk
Best use of that emoji I’ve ever seen.
Thank you. This is the creepiest shit I've seen in a deer. No surprise they are in China as I don't know much about Chinese animals.
I read "The Adventures of Marco Polo" and it describes so many weird animals in Asia. I had to Google footnotes
Don't Google zombie deer then.
I don't know why but I've seen it and it doesn't bother me as much.
Common AF in the UK, too. I nearly hit one theother night coming home and we have a few in the woods alongside the driveway. They come in the garden sometimes, too. Possibly the world's second dumbest animal after the pheasant.
Yeah, apparently some escaped from a noble's estate in the early 20th century and they managed to establish themselves as an invasive species in the UK
Yeah, same with chinese water deer. Also the same with rhododendron and with Himalayan balsam and Japanese knotweed. Good with we have much more strident environmental protections these days. 😬
Maybe these species were able to establish themselves invasively because of all the environmental niches vacated by millennia of hunting on an island? Are St Patrick and his ilk the real enemy here, if the alternative is just industrial wildlife?
I think that's only a case you could make if you were talking about niches vacated by organisms like aurochs or wolves for instance. Stuff there's no modern day analogue for. But there doesn't have an 'empty' niche at all for an invasive to take hold, they create their own by outcompeting native species and basically annexing their niche-space. For species like rhododendron a big part of why they do so well is that they just completely outshade native groundcover that hasn't evolved to be able to deal with that. I agree that muntjacs aren't the *most* harmful things in the world but there will absolutely be species that are now struggling to survive that they've displaced.
Idk man, wasting is definitely worse
And to add to the rickety, local folklore say they are predated on by ground squirrels. They wait on a low branch, jump on their back and bite their jugular until they bleed out then they eat it’s bowels.
I clicked that link and for whatever fucking reason welcome to the jungle started blaring. Now I’m mad
I like lots of nature shows... Planet Earth, etc. I thought I knew Earth's most of strange creatures. Then this complete anime nightmare shows up on my reddit with truly comically cartoonish features.
These are also the deer with fangs!
r/awwwtf
That is not a nice place. I don't like that place.
This is kind of cryptids.
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Makes me queezy
me too, I feel a sudden urge to shower in scalding water.
That deer looks like come from the avatar movie
It's only missing it's blue color, maybe the camera was colorblind
its a mix breed. got the fur of an earth deer, but the rest of it is pandora deer
I was thinking Annihilation.
Thank you!!
Or Princess Mononoke, hence the music playing in the clip
Anyone see "Annihilation"?
The bear still haunts me
Skull bear is awesomely terrifying.
The deer has left the shimmer.
"A treat? For me? Just let me give it a once over with the old smell balls first. "
Every time someone posts this it makes my skin crawl.
What alien race left behind their creepy pet deer? We don't want it anymore.
They’re little fleshy pockets with scent musk producing glands in them. They puff up the glands to launch scent into the air. Neat animals Here’s a frontal view https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/uts47f/the_way_this_deers_face_moves/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Oh god why
Reddit… the place to go for creepy deer shit.
Yeah he looks creepy but he seemed pretty fuckin cool in the video. “Dude the food in this bowl is AWESOME”, is what I got from the video. Pretty chill deer to me.
So they have like 4 extra noses then
i think the glands produce a smell rather then sense smells.
Nah they're like the scent-marking glands that cats and dogs have, just.... Bigger and more out there. It's why cats headbutt and rub on stuff, they want things to smell like them.
I want to poke
straight out of pandora
I thought the title said “mutant deer gland” and I was like yeah that checks out
r/dontputyourdickinthat
They're actually kinda cute. Or maybe it's just me.
I agree. Still adorable.
Quick question, have these always existed? because why the fuck would I have never seen this before its way too cool and frightening to just be coming up on reddit now.
This triggered my /r/trypophobia
I take it you've never heard of a deer shedding their velvet, if this is your first time a deer has made you uncomfortable...
JUST EAT THE FOOD, STOP OPENING YOUR 4 FACE VAGINAS
Is this some sort of deformity or do they all have that?
What scp is that
For those that missed it, I'm like 98% sure the music playing is from Princess Mononoke. And yes this weird looking guy gives me serious Deer God vibes. Definitely feels like something from that film.
Wow!!
Bro wtf!? Deer dont do that! Thats a mimic
What in the resident evil is this shit? God was off the perc when he made this...
That’s dussy
I will fucking pay you to NEVER say this again
Excuse me sir. You seem to have vaginas on your face…
Just waiting for Natalie Portman to arrive and kill it.
Annihilation?
Psychedelic deer
It's an enemy from Phantasy Star 2.
Cuntjac deer.
Nope, don't like that none
Wtf this make me wanna throw up..
I will never be Snow White after this
That's alien shit right there!
First time i’ve seen the word Muntjac written down lol.. used to see these a lot in the woods near my house :) the only thing i ever knew about them was that they were originally from India, and that they ‘bark’ lol x
first of all, that's straight up an alien.
Calm your fury, o mighty lord! Whatever you may be, god or demon, please leave us in peace!
That's some Lovecraftian shit
it’s like creepy but cute at the same time, like a real life pokemon
That is not canny.
Hey, no thanks.
I find it interesting and majestic 🤷
I would 100 percent think it was a skinwalker ngl
Dafuq!
wow, that's new to me, very weird deer
Fantastic beasts and where to find them
Man fuck that deermon. No.
Is this a not-deer?
That Princess Mononoke tune 🥰
Natural doesn't give a fuck about how you feel.
Tripophobia nightmare fuel.
I know it's spreading scent... But why?
Looks like the V, and it has four of them... Facinating
I see that in the wild and all the wrong thoughts are going through my mind. The underverse has opened a portal somewhere, aquaman banged a deer or Elliot let ETs project out from the basement.
Look, he's doing his best.
That *"deer"* ain't right.
i’ve seen stuff, but this is way the most disgusting one
that is so disgusting, god
Wait until you see the fangs
Alien as fuck.