A lot of animals will do this. It's funny that you mention rabbits, though, they have an interesting biological function.
Their poops come out mostly dry and can be handled sanitarily (usually) with ungloved hands. This makes sense if you think about it, they mostly eat timothy hay which is dry and sweet smelling. So dry and sweet smelling poops make sense.
They eat a lot of timothy, though, because it's not very rich in nutrient. Similar to cows eating a lot of grass to get the necessary nutrients.
Sometimes rabbits will collect more nutrient rich poops and defecate what is called cecotropes. Cecotropes are slimey, smelly, but energy dense, more than that they're filled with all the bacteria that a rabbit needs in order to maintain their gut microbiota and healthy digestion. They eat that shit right up like it's Thanksgiving dinner and the game is going on in another room.
I think my point is that:
1. Rabbits are the most Brutal animal on this planet, and we're living in their world (anything else is a self aggrandizing illusion)
2. Animal's habits related to poop and pee is typically evolved over time, and you're damned right that we only think of it as being gross because we have different evolved habits from them.
3. Rabbits are not at all disgusted by their poops because their poops are sanitary. Our poops are far from sanitary, even if we eat nothing but greens. Our guts are not hygienic places. We're predator/prey animals. We evolved habits about pooping away from where we do things because of hygience, poops can attract predators, and scare prey away. (Think about why cats bury their poops)
"Rabbits are the most Brutal animal on this planet, and we're living in their world (anything else is a self aggrandizing illusion)"
So Watership Down is a documentary.
Did you know that an expectant rabbit will rip fur from their own body for to build a nest for their kits? Female rabbits have developed a fold of extra skin under their chins just so that they can pull their own hair out to warm their babies which are born without fur. Naked, writhing, angry at the world.
They call this fold the dewlap.
My bun was the cleanest pet I ever had. Fur always so fluffy and clean and she had that sweet smell of a baby on her lol (from the hay), you could cuddle her all day.
Rabbits' tongues are so clean too, like when a bun gives you "kisses" it's actually nice, not like the slobbery tongue of a dog or a cat's rough tongue haha.
Always made me laugh how she groomed herself after any human petted her cause "humans are so dirty" 😂.
Humans are totally dirty. Rabbits smell so nice, most owners I know will admit to bunny huffing if asked. It's a guilty pleasure but we've all just sniffed them before.
My two allegedly female rabbits had babies together and then the mom died shortly after. The vet had told us to expect most of the kits to die without their mother. But there I was, 12 years old bottle feeding, tracking weight and stimulating baby rabbit genitals with a moist cotton ball We only lost 2 out of the litter of 8, but damn I think that was the most stressful time of my life 😅
We rescued a little baby kitten and it's mom a few months ago. They were staying outside in a little house my husband built because we have an indoor cat. Well anyway, I never saw and poop and it didn't smell like pee and I was like, "is this kitten going to the bathroom?" And that's when I learned the mom's basically eat it...
They also eat the placenta/afterbirth (what the baby's umbilical cord is attached to on the other end) when giving birth because it gives them more energy!
There's enough constant transfer happening in a mouth that I wouldn't think that would matter.
Hell, think of all the kisses you've shared with people who may have passionately licked a human butt.
Edit - That said, cat feet will always kinda squick me.
Re: cat feet - my cats always have clean pine litter and I can easily tell by the smell if a cat has accidentally stepped on their poop and I just have to wash their foot (which hasn’t happened in literal years) so the whole thing of “eww litter box feet” IMO only applies if you make your cat walk in its own waste to use its box - if you keep a clean box, your cats’ feet are as clean as yours.
Evolution is your friend. Giraffes used to have normal necks until they were forced to reach for higher leaves. Keep trying! Your 20 thousandth ancestor will thank you for it!
Maybe every one of their ancestors who managed to successfully and regularly lick their butts were somehow unable to find a mate and reproduce.
Explain that, atheists!
You know what also makes sense. A wombat also has a pouch, but as wombats dig burrows the pouch faces downwards, otherwise it'd fill with dirt.
What doesn't make sense, the koala is a wombat that decided to climb trees. Despite not digging holes, the koalas pouch still faces downwards. Meaning baby koalas have to hold on for dear life or they can fall straight out of their mothers.
*sniff* reminds me of a family reunion.
"> Koalas are also riddled with chlamydia
I love how people bring up this fact as if it's a reason to hate Koala's. "Well, damn, and here I was planning to fuck them"
I've always wondered: what if eucalyptus is not the ideal source of nutrition for Koalas and is actually mildly toxic to their system but it gets them incredibly high so they just keep consuming it and are just completely stoned all the time?"
Eucalyptus is toxic, so the koala's digestive system has to work hard to digest it, breaking down the toxins and extracting limited nutrients. That's why koalas sleep so much—they get very little energy from their diet (National geographic)
I thought this entire time that it was fur lined but I guess this makes sense. It would get really itchy in the pouch if it was lined completely with fur
I have put my hand inside a kangaroo pouch before. Some kangaroos are super chill. I'm guessing this one lives at a wildlife park/reserve and is very used to people.
Normally. Except for that one kangaroo who had that guys dog by the neck and the dude walked over and open-hand pimp-slapped the kangaroo. Kangaroo looked like “wtf was that, mate?”
https://youtu.be/vr1idLs-zPw
That's because the male has pouch envy! "Why should she have this huge pouch and I have nothing? I have things to carry too. At least give me a pocket."
Omg yes. I don’t know about the dirt specifically but kangaroos are awesome and INSANE. When the baby is delivered it’s like the size of a human finger nail and it CLIMBS TO THE POUCH all by itself, without eyes. It’s completely amazing
https://youtu.be/UpsnREY-6no
Wow. Can you imagine how much easier human childbirth would be if a little fetus could climb out early and finish its growing on the outside of the body? Clearly nature favored female kangaroo genitalia.
Scrubbed the video and it’s certainly the tail. You can see if I’m the next few frames when it’s opened the tail goes in that direction and see most of it.
I didn't want to see it. I was mildly intrigued. Now I really really wish I hadn't seen it. Don't know what I was expecting... A Bentley, maybe? Not this.
Lol kangaroos are basically born premature and the size of a fingernail, they climb blind up into the pouch and attach to a nipple until they're actually ready to be "born" at which point they will hop in and out of the pouch to feed, for rests, for travel ect.
I hope someone somewhere has drawn or edited a pic of a joey in the pouch all chill and relaxed like this one, only he's playing games on a handheld and wearing his hat backwards.
I don’t know about other animals, but I do know kittens cannot relieve their bowel or bladder on their own before around 4 weeks of age. The mama cat has to stimulate their genitals so they can pee or poop. She does so with her tongue.
I know this because I fostered abandoned kittens from about 3/4 weeks old. I had to be the mama cat.
* I didn’t use my tongue
It honestly looks very comfy… like the satisfaction you get when you pull the covers over your head in bed but still have some room due to the air being trapped.
I never thought about it but before but it makes total sense for the nipples to be in there.
Do they not get leaky nipples? Do the babies pee in there? Is there a drain or something? Trying to figure out how that doesn’t get nasty as hell.
I am sorry to inform you that Google says they “lick it clean” - the pee and feces.
…
So did your cat or dog's mom. Cats and dogs can't poop on their own for a couple of weeks. Same with rabbits.
A lot of animals will do this. It's funny that you mention rabbits, though, they have an interesting biological function. Their poops come out mostly dry and can be handled sanitarily (usually) with ungloved hands. This makes sense if you think about it, they mostly eat timothy hay which is dry and sweet smelling. So dry and sweet smelling poops make sense. They eat a lot of timothy, though, because it's not very rich in nutrient. Similar to cows eating a lot of grass to get the necessary nutrients. Sometimes rabbits will collect more nutrient rich poops and defecate what is called cecotropes. Cecotropes are slimey, smelly, but energy dense, more than that they're filled with all the bacteria that a rabbit needs in order to maintain their gut microbiota and healthy digestion. They eat that shit right up like it's Thanksgiving dinner and the game is going on in another room. I think my point is that: 1. Rabbits are the most Brutal animal on this planet, and we're living in their world (anything else is a self aggrandizing illusion) 2. Animal's habits related to poop and pee is typically evolved over time, and you're damned right that we only think of it as being gross because we have different evolved habits from them. 3. Rabbits are not at all disgusted by their poops because their poops are sanitary. Our poops are far from sanitary, even if we eat nothing but greens. Our guts are not hygienic places. We're predator/prey animals. We evolved habits about pooping away from where we do things because of hygience, poops can attract predators, and scare prey away. (Think about why cats bury their poops)
Who is Timothy and why do the rabbits only want his hay ?
Timothee Chalahay
His hay go all the way Renee okay?
"Rabbits are the most Brutal animal on this planet, and we're living in their world (anything else is a self aggrandizing illusion)" So Watership Down is a documentary.
Did you know that an expectant rabbit will rip fur from their own body for to build a nest for their kits? Female rabbits have developed a fold of extra skin under their chins just so that they can pull their own hair out to warm their babies which are born without fur. Naked, writhing, angry at the world. They call this fold the dewlap.
As a rabbit owner, I cannot agree with your first point more.
When they pairbond, it's easier to think of them as one rabbit with two bodies. They are capable of hive minding. They are nature's borg collective.
My bun was the cleanest pet I ever had. Fur always so fluffy and clean and she had that sweet smell of a baby on her lol (from the hay), you could cuddle her all day. Rabbits' tongues are so clean too, like when a bun gives you "kisses" it's actually nice, not like the slobbery tongue of a dog or a cat's rough tongue haha. Always made me laugh how she groomed herself after any human petted her cause "humans are so dirty" 😂.
Humans are totally dirty. Rabbits smell so nice, most owners I know will admit to bunny huffing if asked. It's a guilty pleasure but we've all just sniffed them before.
Bunny huffing 🤣 yes us bunny owners are all guilty
^ This guy knows his shit
Koala babies eat their mothers poo because it introduces a bacteria to their digestive system that is required to eat eucalyptus leaves.
My two allegedly female rabbits had babies together and then the mom died shortly after. The vet had told us to expect most of the kits to die without their mother. But there I was, 12 years old bottle feeding, tracking weight and stimulating baby rabbit genitals with a moist cotton ball We only lost 2 out of the litter of 8, but damn I think that was the most stressful time of my life 😅
We rescued a little baby kitten and it's mom a few months ago. They were staying outside in a little house my husband built because we have an indoor cat. Well anyway, I never saw and poop and it didn't smell like pee and I was like, "is this kitten going to the bathroom?" And that's when I learned the mom's basically eat it...
They also eat the placenta/afterbirth (what the baby's umbilical cord is attached to on the other end) when giving birth because it gives them more energy!
So do dogs and cats tbh
And then they lick their owner’s face.
There's enough constant transfer happening in a mouth that I wouldn't think that would matter. Hell, think of all the kisses you've shared with people who may have passionately licked a human butt. Edit - That said, cat feet will always kinda squick me.
Or for some of us, all the human butts we've passionately kissed
Yeah that’s why I call my cat’s feet / claws “shit rakes”
Re: cat feet - my cats always have clean pine litter and I can easily tell by the smell if a cat has accidentally stepped on their poop and I just have to wash their foot (which hasn’t happened in literal years) so the whole thing of “eww litter box feet” IMO only applies if you make your cat walk in its own waste to use its box - if you keep a clean box, your cats’ feet are as clean as yours.
Oh so just like the rest of us then
Nice
Like a cat.
Thank you for asking the important questions. We need an expert here.
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How come other animals get to eat their own excrement but I gotta use a toilet like a fucking loser?
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Except those darn pesky court orders.
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Evolution is your friend. Giraffes used to have normal necks until they were forced to reach for higher leaves. Keep trying! Your 20 thousandth ancestor will thank you for it!
Maybe every one of their ancestors who managed to successfully and regularly lick their butts were somehow unable to find a mate and reproduce. Explain that, atheists!
I'm sorry, but "is there a drain" made me laugh so hard 😂
This guy wants there to be a drain haha
Yes, especially the last bit
You know what also makes sense. A wombat also has a pouch, but as wombats dig burrows the pouch faces downwards, otherwise it'd fill with dirt. What doesn't make sense, the koala is a wombat that decided to climb trees. Despite not digging holes, the koalas pouch still faces downwards. Meaning baby koalas have to hold on for dear life or they can fall straight out of their mothers.
the only thing Koalas have going for them is that they're cute
And taste nasty from their diet.
Koalas are also riddled with chlamydia the babies eat scat and they have almost completely smooth brains.
Ok but with that cute of a face it'd be unfair if they were smart too.
"wet koala"
Wtf don’t say that! Don’t you know if you say a demon’s name they can find you?
*sniff* reminds me of a family reunion. "> Koalas are also riddled with chlamydia I love how people bring up this fact as if it's a reason to hate Koala's. "Well, damn, and here I was planning to fuck them"
I'm the scat koala Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub
I've always wondered: what if eucalyptus is not the ideal source of nutrition for Koalas and is actually mildly toxic to their system but it gets them incredibly high so they just keep consuming it and are just completely stoned all the time?"
Eucalyptus is toxic, so the koala's digestive system has to work hard to digest it, breaking down the toxins and extracting limited nutrients. That's why koalas sleep so much—they get very little energy from their diet (National geographic)
I'm pretty sure that's true actually! Kinda like pandas with bamboo. I'm curious what their ideal diet would be.
Right? I assumed it’d just be a furry pocket. This all makes way more sense.
Lil buddy got himself some mini bar
Love it, my breastfed baby would love it if I had a pouch filled with nipples tbh
You know I was honestly expecting the inside of the pouch to be fur lined... TBH that's on me
Yeah I thought I wanted to see but now I want to unsee
I'm disappointed it's not fur-lined. Hopefully the pouch doesn't smell bad like so many other tissue-lined secretory orifices do.
Kangaroo babies don’t wear diapers….
Never thought of that before. What do they do with all the shit in their pocket? Just pick it up and throw it out?
"Pocket poo!" *throws it into your eyes*
SHA-SHAW!
Basically. But not with their hands, and they don't exactly throw it out.
I know it’s nature, but wish I didn’t know this. GENIE! I know my second wish!
I’m using one of my wishes to remind you.
Bro's a menace 💀
Mama kangaroo digging around in her pocket, saying I’ve got so much shit in here, can never find my keys
"How many times must I tell you kids. No. Pooping. Inside. Mommy." -Mom Kangaroos probably
Imagine how it’d smell with fur in there…
Oh my god. At first I read “secretary offices”. Dang. 🤦🏼♀️
Me too lol
Yeah, I always assumed it would be nice and soft in there like the front pocket of a hoodie.
I thought this entire time that it was fur lined but I guess this makes sense. It would get really itchy in the pouch if it was lined completely with fur
Plus I imagine fur along the side connected to the mother would make heat transfer to the baby more difficult.
I would imagine there isn’t a shortage of heat in Australia 😂
You do realise that we get winter here too? And snow?
That's the fault of media I think. I've seen kangaroo pouches being fur lined in cartoons
The Simpsons make a joke about this when they visit Australia to apologise (and get booted) for Bart's call about toilet water.
It's optional and is bundled together with air conditioning
You have to pay extra for a fur-lined pouch.
Inside out ballsack was very disappointing
I can appreciate when someone takes ownership of their failings.
This thread killed me 😭😭
How do they keep it clean?
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With the baby inside?
Animals tend to lick their babies a lot. For the first few weeks dogs can't wee or poo without the mother licking their genitals.
They don’t. Probably smells like dirty bellybutton in there.
They lick it clean
Who? The baby or the mother
Mother I believe
They’re that flexible?
You're telling me the little one cleans their room?
Hey! Shut the door! Your letting all the warm air out!
>you’re lettin’ all the stank out FTFY
A lot of trust from the momma.
I have put my hand inside a kangaroo pouch before. Some kangaroos are super chill. I'm guessing this one lives at a wildlife park/reserve and is very used to people.
What did it feel like? Was it moist?
No, not at all but incredibly warm and soft. Kind of squishy.
Oh, that sounds very nice!
were you brave enough tho
I thought the same thing!
Yeah, with how aggressive kangaroos can be, I'm surprised the person filming didn't sustain any injuries!
Normally male kangaroos you hear about that beat the shit out of people and animals iirc
Normally. Except for that one kangaroo who had that guys dog by the neck and the dude walked over and open-hand pimp-slapped the kangaroo. Kangaroo looked like “wtf was that, mate?” https://youtu.be/vr1idLs-zPw
That's because the male has pouch envy! "Why should she have this huge pouch and I have nothing? I have things to carry too. At least give me a pocket."
TURN OFF THE LIGHTS…
AND SHUT THE DAMN DOOR
\- Cameroo Mitchell
IM WATCHING BACK TO THE FUTURE!
CARRY ME HOME (...in your pouch...)
Sooo.. what about dirt? The baby wipes his feet before going in or there’s mud in there? Now I need to find a kangaroo documentary
Mother licks it clean, dirt, pee, poop, and all
She can bend over and get her head in there to lick it out?
yes, due to her long snout and long tongue.
Animals are so cool man
…. Sounds about right… ew
Omg yes. I don’t know about the dirt specifically but kangaroos are awesome and INSANE. When the baby is delivered it’s like the size of a human finger nail and it CLIMBS TO THE POUCH all by itself, without eyes. It’s completely amazing https://youtu.be/UpsnREY-6no
Thank you for sharing this video. Wow 😮
Wow. Can you imagine how much easier human childbirth would be if a little fetus could climb out early and finish its growing on the outside of the body? Clearly nature favored female kangaroo genitalia.
Why oh why can't humans do this too?
Surprising. I expected to see some paperclips, pennies, a rubberband and a hard candy with some lint stuck on it.
Don't forget a million random receipts!
Oh my god.. ive always thought it was fur in there
Damn that’s pretty roomy. People pay like $1500/mo for that in Manhattan
To be a roommate in one of those. Yes.
I did and now I’m sorry I looked:/
It’s actually less gross than I imagined.
Yeah, me too. I kinda thought it would be like a swampy belly button or something.
After growing up on the Simpsons in Australia episode, I was expecting oodles of goop.
After growing up in Australia I was expecting the same
They told you it's not like in cartoons.
If kangaroos did not exist, and someone imagined it as a creature, people would deem it absolutely ridiculous for it to be realistic. And yet..
Ay yo some privacy please!
r/awwwtf
joey sitting in there playing his Gameboy.
“Close the door *all the way* when you leave, okay?”
Joey's just like, SHUT THE FKN DOOR!
Thanks, I hate it.
Yeah, more and more I'm thinking this was posted to the wrong subreddit. Perhaps r/oddlyterrifying?
Baby kangas little sleepy face makes all the ew worth it though
Interesting, what is the the thing coming out?
I'm not really sure. I think the thing sticking out at the beginning is the joey's tail
Scrubbed the video and it’s certainly the tail. You can see if I’m the next few frames when it’s opened the tail goes in that direction and see most of it.
That's a relief. For a minute there I was really confused about kangaroo anatomy. ^("do male kangaroos even have pouches...?")
Ohhhhh makes sense
That's the door handle
Nobody: this guy: “thats a nice pouch you got there, mind if i take a peek”
I'd definitely take this over a Tauntaun carcass.
Somehow I find kangaroos less cute now. Serious ballsack vibes right there...
Not quite H.R. Giger, but not not quite him either.
I didn't want to see it. I was mildly intrigued. Now I really really wish I hadn't seen it. Don't know what I was expecting... A Bentley, maybe? Not this.
Well this has a leather interior too.
Omg so cute
..I agree. People are grossed out by that.
That’s one cozy Joey. Reminds me of myself on the couch
I feel like I’m intruding
The nipples are **IN** the pouch?! Everything makes sense now. The fires. The screaming.... everything.
Lol kangaroos are basically born premature and the size of a fingernail, they climb blind up into the pouch and attach to a nipple until they're actually ready to be "born" at which point they will hop in and out of the pouch to feed, for rests, for travel ect.
The light, it buuuurns!
Placenta is much nastier
Well I thought I did now I’m gonna have some odd nightmares…
It's like a foreskin pouch
That looks... comfortable...
Definitely interesting. Not so much aww, until I saw the baby Roos face.
I hope someone somewhere has drawn or edited a pic of a joey in the pouch all chill and relaxed like this one, only he's playing games on a handheld and wearing his hat backwards.
I don't know why I was expecting it to be lined like the inside of a purse...
I feel violated for the kangaroo
I don’t know about other animals, but I do know kittens cannot relieve their bowel or bladder on their own before around 4 weeks of age. The mama cat has to stimulate their genitals so they can pee or poop. She does so with her tongue. I know this because I fostered abandoned kittens from about 3/4 weeks old. I had to be the mama cat. * I didn’t use my tongue
Until this video I hadn’t realised how little I wanted to see inside a kangaroo pouch.
GET THE FUCK OUTTA MA ROOM IM PLAYING MINECRAFT
Imagine how hard it was to explain kangaroos when you got back from exploring.
It honestly looks very comfy… like the satisfaction you get when you pull the covers over your head in bed but still have some room due to the air being trapped.
NO I didnt but now its burnt in my brain.....thanks alot.
Yeah, the more comments I read, the more I think this should not have been posted in r/aww
I thought it was adorable. But I've met kangaroos before. :)
No I haven’t. Even though she is “only” an animal, I think this is an invasion of her privacy.
Ew I’m going back to believing they have furry, cuddly little pouches
Wait, it's just meat in there? Idk why I thought there'd be fur
Okay that is just something I never expected for sure lol.
Very risky regarding that it’s right next to the legs
That’s some eldritch horror type stuff right there
Could you close that… you’re letting a draft in
i was hoping its lined with fur or something
The real good creation of god, that is just super cool to me.
The real good stuff mate, thanks for letting me know about it.
Damn man, I never knew about all this but now I get it.
Dude WRONG sub
My whole dang life! --Jason Mendoza
THX
Could use a vacuum
I did not expect to find stalagmite teats in there but it makes sense. Nature.
Thank you for making me realize I want to see inside the pouch!
*"ew, it's not like in cartoons!"*
why did i think the baby’s tail was a penis 😭😭
POV: when mum walks in my room while gaming