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We usually think of weighing oneself as a not-very-pleasing endeavor we either do and no questions asked, or blatantly ignore. But it’s a whole different story if we're talking adorable and tiny animals being put on scales.
Bored Panda has made a compilation of the cutest little pals getting a weigh-in session. Not only are the pictures all too adorable, they also reveal what kind of tricks, scales, and gadgets animal care workers use to measure their buddies. From weighing an unsuspecting koala sittin’ on a tree limb to wrapping an owl in a burrito-like blanket, this is the kind of cuteness overload I've been missing all this time.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 5 years ago
He looks like his very dignity was attacked and he cannot believe he let them get away with this.
Angela B 5 years ago
Owl in a towel.....or owlett in a towellet? Either way, my spelling is atrocious!
William Wenzel 5 years ago
Ordinary people like me greatly appreciate your humor!
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Lee Schofield 5 years ago
Makes zero sense given that you simply subtract the man's weight...
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Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I remember a myth about a strongman (Hercules?) who started lifting a baby calf every day as it grew up, so even when it was a full-grown bull he could still lift it. So...maybe a full-grown giraffe?
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
The baby giraffe looks like it is wearing a tiny little toupee.
Bored Panda reached out to Emily Greenhalgh, a marine biologist and science communicator who worked at the New England Aquarium in Boston and posted a picture of a baby penguin being weighed. Emily explained what the procedure of weighing wild animals looks like.
"As you can imagine, keeping a wild animal still enough to get an accurate weight reading can be a bit of a challenge.” Emily further explained: “Plastic tubs and containers are clutch. The penguin chicks are placed gently in a plastic tub (the kind you would store flour or cereal in) and then the tub is placed on the scale to get an accurate measurement.”
Meanwhile, other animals (like the sea lions and harbor seals) “are trained to hop up onto the scale as part of their enrichment activities, which makes things a bit easier,” said Emily.
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GumShoe359 5 years ago
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
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Viviette Moore 5 years ago
First i was like "WHAT IS THAT?!" then I was like "Oh,thats a panda wait maybe its a stuffed panda." now I'm like "this is for LIVE animals not stuffed animals.Well, then thats one weird looking panda cub."
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WinkyTheHouseElf 5 years ago
It’s great that it’s being weighed in what looks like a natural space
It really depends on the individual animal how often they get a checkup and how they get weighed.
For example, “The Aquarium's 550-lb green sea turtle, Myrtle, gets a full workup twice a year, including weight measurements, ultrasounds, and blood-draws.” Meanwhile, “Much like a human, the Aquarium's giant anacondas get a checkup annually.”
However, the baby animals like the rockhopper and African penguins that are born at the Aquarium get a checkup and a weigh-in much more frequently.
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Anne 5 years ago
Well he has his tail on the ground, so cheating a bit ! :D
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Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
I've got the take out container, just need the adorable otter to put in it.
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Ashtonthefairytrainer 5 years ago
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
The bad news is that your haircut is always going to look like that.
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Tiffany Marie 5 years ago
I love their little baby squeals.. Both kittens and cubs. They go off like a crying baby but its so cute.
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Janine Hunt-Jackson 5 years ago
You have to be pretty strong to hold a large animal like this zebra and the giraffe in an earlier pic!
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Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
So thats how witches measure the amount of toad in the potion
Mal 5 years ago
Yes, the invention of electronics has greatly improved the accuracy instead of using the old weighted scale thing. Potions are waaaay less sketchy now.
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GumShoe359 5 years ago
I thought those spoons were to make sure I have enough ice cream in my bowl ;P
Load More Replies... Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Don't they have to sit in one spot to weigh? Weight = mass x length-of-lever?
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
I love baby orangutans. They are so incredibly intelligent and playful. Some of their behaviours makes me think of small toddler.
Dave Chapman 5 years ago
How come my Dr doesn't do this for me, I'd go see him more if he did.
Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
Except for the sloth. I think they are running neck and neck!
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Esca Sav 5 years ago
Forget the nails, look at that smile 😂😂😂 I'm crying 😂😂😂
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Mark Serbian 5 years ago
Huh? Wzzz... Oh! hello! You woke me up... I'll just go back to ... ssslleeeep.... ZZZZZZZzzzzz
Dave Chapman 5 years ago (edited)
He gets lil belly scratches thru the grate after, for being a good hanging boy...girl? Heck if I can tell!
Mshauri Mazuri 5 years ago
Ho.....w.......d.......o.......i........lo.................ok.........?
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Rissie 5 years ago
Ah man, I mean, I love the toe beans and belly spots, I will risk many scratches to cuddle it, but no kitty should hang from his shoulders.
Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
perhaps the idea is that all the sharp parts are facing away from the scale partner
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Kiss Army 5 years ago
Hopefully he is neutered... doesn't need those colorful sugar balls!
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GirlFriday 5 years ago
That puppy is the perfect weight. He is a snuggly weight. Give him to me and I will verify.
Leif Quickleaf 5 years ago
that's a doggy bag, everytime in restaurants, i ask for one, but i only get some food packaged, not a dog in a bag.
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Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
next time I be big enough to jump out of here and teach glowy box a lesson.
Ashtonthefairytrainer 5 years ago
This will make me die of adorable overload and I don't care (◡‿◡✿)
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Felicia Dale 5 years ago
No Orca should be in captivity! They are not injured animals who have been "rescued" to be rehabbed and released! They are intentionally caught, sold for huge amounts of money and exhibited for more money. Please, people, do your research on these animals before assuming anything. No animal who swims as far and as deeply as they do should EVER be in a swimming pool. I grew up watching the Orcas in Puget Sound, Washington State, and it breaks my heart to see them turned into performers for humans' pleasure. Now they're literally starving to death because of lack of the salmon they need to thrive (thank you, dams) and the noise of all the human traffic interfering with their ability to hunt. They have intense and tight relationships with each other, are a matriarchal society, and they MUST be protected where they are!
Felicia Dale 5 years ago
One male Orca was so depressed and miserable he literally banged his head against the wall of the tiny pool he was held in until he killed himself. NO ORCA SHOULD BE IN CAPTIVITY.
Load More Replies... Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
In the picture you can see wounds they might be trying to save him. I hope.Nothing belongs in prision if you leave it where it belongs.
Grace Cho 5 years ago
Can they breathe out of water? Orca's are my sister's favorite animal so I should ask her
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
#dontbuyaticket #TanksButNoTanks #lifeinatanksucks #ricobarrydolphinproject Delete this one BP, it isn't right keeping the largest dolphin in a small tank.
jevais 5 years ago
There should be a worldwide law forbidding to hold all marine mammals in captivety. It's extremely cruel. It's big business, all that counts is money, the hell that the animals are maltreated. Dead fish are their meals, never seals, dolphins or wales eat in te wild dead animals. Would you like to live in a space so small that your feces and urine surround you? Top all these horrific treatments, they don't live in water with chlorine. Any they die young.
Inga Viviane 5 years ago
There is a difference between a small seal. ( Also a sea mammal) and dolphins and wales, but for the rest, i totally agree. Those kind of big social animals hurt in captivity, and there will never be a tank bug enough for them
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Jim Kirkham 5 years ago
SCALEMEN of Florida services, calibrates and re-certifies these Custom Built Emery- Winslow Scales every 30 days at Sea World. The Scales are over 20 years old and still working and very accurate.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
I am oddly amused by this video. So does this mean that hedgehogs qualify as liquids?
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Michelle Muirhead 5 years ago
He is cheating, he is leaning on the wall. Hint to me, must remember to do this next time I go to the Doctor’s.
Snuggle_Duck🦆 5 years ago
You can weigh me all you want hoomon, just keep the snackies coming! I wish our doctors gave us snacks to entice weight checks haha!
Kimberly Greenock 5 years ago
I live in far west Texas. We have these in the field next to our house. They are so cute. When my husband and I go on walks they have a look out that sits and barks at us the entire time. We back back and he gets LOUD
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Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Is that 8.888 or 18.888 pounds, or does the real number not show in the photo because of ther angle? I want to know what tiny big kitty weighs!
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Catlady6000 5 years ago
Thanks, Fresh Prince, now I'm gonna be mangling that song all day!
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Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
Surprised they don't just put the turtle on the scale. Why the can?
Paige Garberding 5 years ago
Must they do it upside down!? Turtles don't like being upside down, stresses them out.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago (edited)
What is that? Looks like a tiny duck with a couple of spider legs in back. And a bow on its back.
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Nothanks L. Walk 5 years ago
Yo know you have bad breath when even a seal turtles his head to get away from you
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Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Typical cat behavior. "I know this bowl looks too small, but I'm going to sit in it anyways. "
Genevieve Sandoval 5 years ago
One day , that little pup won't get weighed anymore..... he and/or she will run away from you, and be like hahaha you cant/never will CATCH ME😇😈
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Susan Miller 5 years ago
It's the 'ol 'you grab the treat in the bucket while I grab your weight' trick!
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Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
My açaí place has something called a penguin bowl. It looks nothing like this.
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CincyReds 5 years ago
I just love squirrels. I have two that come to my back deck every morning for breakfast. Since i have been working from home, I get to enjoy it every morning. Just love watching them.
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AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
Ahhh yes the Scarlet Macaw. hehehe. I have two blue and golds and they are amazing. I love me some birdies
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Mark Serbian 5 years ago
That's a snack right there, isn't it? Do I get the snack now? Pleeeeaaaaase?
Nothanks L. Walk 5 years ago
A bose radio.... in an animal care facility. How delightfully clueless.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 5 years ago
Keeper: "You're overweight." Penguin: "Says the one who feeds me while I'm on the actual scales!"
OffKeySinger 5 years ago
I'd be the a*****e penguin friend that would put my webbed foot on the scale
Teresa Groth 5 years ago
All the animals were a joy too see, I respect all the care takers who knew just what they needed too get the job done!
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
Watch this. Jump off before he reads the score and get another fish.
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comboplush 5 years ago
Now that's the content we want to see! Please more owlrittos, ducklings and baby manta rays, and less influencer shots!
Zophra 5 years ago (edited)
OH boy! I'm a biology teacher... I can't wait to use these as examples of the use of the "zero" or "tare" button and make the analogy to using weighing trays and chemicals!!! (And there's even some that are wrong that hopefully students can tell me why they would have an inaccurate reading). This will be fun... wait... are the student going to ask me where are their cute animals when all I have is salt, glucose and agar?
ThreeOfAKind 5 years ago
I never even knew they weighed animals in different ways! This was amazing to read ❤️
comboplush 5 years ago
Now that's the content we want to see! Please more owlrittos, ducklings and baby manta rays, and less influencer shots!
Zophra 5 years ago (edited)
OH boy! I'm a biology teacher... I can't wait to use these as examples of the use of the "zero" or "tare" button and make the analogy to using weighing trays and chemicals!!! (And there's even some that are wrong that hopefully students can tell me why they would have an inaccurate reading). This will be fun... wait... are the student going to ask me where are their cute animals when all I have is salt, glucose and agar?
ThreeOfAKind 5 years ago
I never even knew they weighed animals in different ways! This was amazing to read ❤️
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