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Can you please help me work out what animal I just saw

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YellowJellyfish · 05/02/2020 00:19

In the UK driving down the narrow country roads when this animal ran/waddled across the road.

It was bigger than a cat, smaller than a badger, slower than a fox.

It kind of waddled, was quite round and had no tail.

I really can't think what kind of mammal it was.

Any ideas?

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BusterGonad · 05/02/2020 03:49

I've seen a muntjac deer on my travels, they are really quite majestic and beautiful, nothing like your diagram op, which, may I add, is extreamly delightful.

GinnyStrupac · 05/02/2020 03:39

Had you been drinking, OP, either when you saw it or before you did the diagram?!

To me, it looks like a giant tick, Percy Pig, or one of the Mr Men.

Where we are I see a lot of critters crossing the roads, or sadly having failed to safely cross the roads, but I've yet to see one of those three. I'll look more carefully from now on.

Ariela · 05/02/2020 03:28

Mink or otter?

OvenGlovesWillTearUsApart · 05/02/2020 03:20

He cute!

snowqu33n · 05/02/2020 02:36

I know they aren’t native to the UK, but...

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48451094

They are normally harmless

snowqu33n · 05/02/2020 02:27

Tanuki? I kind of love Tanuki when they have a fluffy winter coat. Here’s my picture

Can you please help me work out what animal I just saw
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YellowJellyfish · 05/02/2020 02:13

No we don't have them over here, but I do know how much wood a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood!

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HistoriaTrixie · 05/02/2020 02:11

I don't know if you have them over there (I'm in the US) but could it be a groundhog/woodchuck or some other type of marmot?

Can you please help me work out what animal I just saw
AutumnRose1 · 05/02/2020 02:04

OP “ Wonder what it means, I drew a smiley face but no eyes .....”

You’re writing a horror film?

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YellowJellyfish · 05/02/2020 01:57

Happy, tailless rat with no eyes!

Wonder what it means, I drew a smiley face but no eyes .....

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MrsChatterleysHoover · 05/02/2020 01:55

I'm afraid it's looking to me like a massive rat. A happy rat

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YellowJellyfish · 05/02/2020 01:55

Omg they're huge!!

But that picture ......

So many questions!!!

The birthday cake on her breasts, the shirt with the whales on it!!!

What is going on there!!!

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AutumnRose1 · 05/02/2020 01:49

Blimey, that capybara would yell STAND AND DELIVER and then carjack you.

Maybe you saw a baby boar, OP.

tabulahrasa · 05/02/2020 01:46

That’s how big capybaras are btw...

Can you please help me work out what animal I just saw
Can you please help me work out what animal I just saw
Lweji · 05/02/2020 01:46

Size can be misleading because it could be a juvenile, which is also more likely to stray and have risky behaviour.

AutumnRose1 · 05/02/2020 01:45

Until I read that article, I didn’t know they could disembowel people Shock

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YellowJellyfish · 05/02/2020 01:39

Noooo my excitement is vanishing! As PPs have mentioned think it was too small to be a capybara.

Def not a wild boar. I'm scared of those buggers.

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puds11 · 05/02/2020 01:34

Capybara are much bigger than prairie dogs

AutumnRose1 · 05/02/2020 01:34

OP

If you look at the second picture, was it like that?

www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/wild-boar-gloucester-city-centre

AutumnRose1 · 05/02/2020 01:32

OP this thread is making me lol so hard 😂

OvenGlovesWillTearUsApart · 05/02/2020 01:30

wheresmymojo

OMG how cute! In my head meerkats and prairie dogs are very similar, but this pic shows their differences rather well.

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YellowJellyfish · 05/02/2020 01:29

Hahah yes on the diagram the animal is larger than my car.

That is my car at the bottom right of the diagram in case you were wondering. It's not smiling.

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AutumnRose1 · 05/02/2020 01:28

Also on perspective, either your car is very small or you were very calm!!!

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YellowJellyfish · 05/02/2020 01:27

Wait? What? Which one is the capybara? The one with his back to us?

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AutumnRose1 · 05/02/2020 01:27

Perspective is a funny thing, I think it looks bigger than a fox.

No the smile so much as the nose. But I hope it was happy with its night wanderings 😂

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