r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Grand-Western549 • Aug 07 '26
Video A peruvian long haired guinea pig.
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u/Separate_Finance_183 Aug 07 '26
Lil' bro has better hair than me 😭
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u/ChymChymX Aug 07 '26
The question is how did he afford a flight from Peru to Turkey to get his procedure.
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u/One_Advantage793 Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
I seriously thought it was a video of someone brushing out some kind of partial wig or toupee when I first saw it.
Edited to fix the common phone fat finger ai instead of I because people keep telling me not to pay attention to AI. Jeez! Mistake purely my own human brain!
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u/LurkerFromTheVoid Aug 07 '26
Cuy Fabio has entered the Chat.
BTW:
In Latin America, cuy (spelled cui in some regional variants) most commonly refers to the guinea pig, a domesticated rodent native to the Andean region that is traditionally raised and eaten as a high-protein delicacy.
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u/shadoeweever Aug 07 '26
Found the Fabio joke, I feel better now. Little guy just needs to watch out for geese
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u/ArmpitofD00m Aug 07 '26
No problem, my guy will sit up top comfortably and make it look like a fine center part.
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u/marleiahxdayze Aug 07 '26
ITS NOT A PHASE MOM
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Aug 07 '26
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u/nicoznico Aug 07 '26
Bro looks like Cousin Itt from Adams Family
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u/RockstarAgent Aug 07 '26
I want to know its hair routine. My hair ain’t as shiny and lustrous.
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u/lightr3nd Aug 07 '26
Soul Glo'!
... I think he'd rock in product commercial! Just put him in front of a fan on a slowly rotating table and let the camera loose on this handsome mf.
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u/CH49FE Aug 07 '26
And he cleans the floors as he walks too!
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u/Dry_Peen15 Aug 07 '26
I'm thinking the entire underside of that thing is covered with piss and shit
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u/unlikemike123 Aug 07 '26
Probably not this specific one but other longhairs that don't get brushed every 30 seconds might lol
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u/xdianaaxx Aug 08 '26
They get dirty so fast. My log haired guinea pig gets a butt trim every now and then
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u/unleashtheraven1 Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
Is that where toupees come from?
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u/doctormink Aug 07 '26
Right? It’s like a little wig with legs!
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u/No-Respond-900 Aug 07 '26
don’t wear it atop your head or a harpy eagle might snatch it and expose your dome
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u/InvictvsNox Aug 07 '26
That is a guinea wig.
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Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
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u/efrav Aug 07 '26
Here in Colombia they are called Cuys, close enough to cuyos lol
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u/SnooTangerines7026 Aug 07 '26
No, that's a tribble.
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u/whiff_EK Aug 07 '26
I don't know hardly anything about Star Trek at all and I still said "Isn't that a tribble?"
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u/SPECTRE-Agent-No-13 Aug 07 '26
And Scotty beamed them to the Klingon ship, where they would be no tribble at all.
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u/jjnib Aug 07 '26
Don't they eat them there?
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u/waluigieWAAH Aug 07 '26
They were domesticated to be food. Then the Europeans came and made them pets
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u/MaddysinLeigh Aug 07 '26
Iirc Europeans only kept them as pets after also using them as food.
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u/MaleficentPlate69 Aug 07 '26
Once you shave it, there isn’t much left to eat though.
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u/Skratt79 Aug 07 '26
These things are so fat calorie dense 1 feeds 4 people, you need to eat potatoes with them to absorb the fat. They are the gamiest little buggers too.
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u/MaleficentPlate69 Aug 07 '26
Thanks for the insight, but I never thought about eating a guinea pig. But I like tats.
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u/grungegoth Aug 07 '26
I unknowingly ate guinea pig at a hotel buffet in Quito
tastes like ... small birds, or chicken
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u/CitizenHuman Aug 07 '26
My dad also unknowingly ate it like 40 years ago. He was told it was rabbit.
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u/Wasatcher Aug 07 '26
My sister and I had pet rabbits growing up but we ate all the offspring. My dad told her it was chicken in the rabbit stew for years until she came home from school early one day while we were halfway through butchering them 😭. After the secret was out we had whole rabbit and she ate something else lol
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u/KancroVantas Aug 07 '26
Oh that first sentence cracked me up! Is so messed up! Addams family vibes.
“Oh we had pets! We just ate all their children”
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u/highfiveselfoh Aug 07 '26
I really don’t like eating meat much less exploring types I’m not used to…I’d be so sad to unknowingly eat guinea pig.
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u/Hilton5star Aug 07 '26
Well, it is what they were bred for.
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u/stillsympin Aug 07 '26
Yeah it's the same as keep rabbits for meat. Very common in that area, especially the further you get from touristy stuff.
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u/Ha1lStorm Aug 07 '26
My dad tricked me into eating calf fries / Rocky Mountain oysters as a kid. I thought they were delicious until he told me what they were.
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u/VascoJSC Aug 07 '26
They were originally domesticated for meat. They eat grass (which humans cannot) and turn the indigestable fibers of tough mountain grasses into protein, they also grow quickly and reproduce quickly. Makes sense the Andean cultures would domesticate them.
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u/TheStarsMist Aug 07 '26
One thing many don't think of about this cultural staple of many South American countries is that they also do not have access to large grazing pastures. It is easier to raise the small mammals vs the flat acerage needs of big mammals. I haven't had cuy yet either.
Though when you look at this based on topography being far more varied it makes sense why they raise them for meat.
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u/TheGrundleGrabber Aug 07 '26
I’m not vegan and probably never will be, but your comment made me think: if we invented a machine that could create food out of inedible substances, we’d consider it an incredible scientific breakthrough.
This is essentially how we use many livestock animals: as biological machines that convert grass and otherwise unusable plant matter into food. I don’t know that I feel great about that. I’d never thought of it in those terms before reading your comment. I know that’s not what you were getting at, but this shit lowkey fucked me up.
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u/Throwitaway252501 Aug 07 '26
Many animals have the same issue and it's why they eat meat. It's natural for us to eat meat, and there's nothing morally wrong with that Biology. The issue is, we know how to raise and butcher meat ethically, but we don't because that costs more money than capitalism is willing to part with. People should try to eat less meat and choose more sustainable meats where they can, not because eating meat itself is wrong, but the production of meat under capitalism is unethical.
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u/TheGrundleGrabber Aug 07 '26
Great comment. I think reducing consumption is ideal because it seems quite possible that even under a more ethical economic system, it may be infeasible to ethically produce the required amount of meat.
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u/Forward-Variety-8440 Aug 07 '26
this begs the question, is there any ethical consumption under capitalism?
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u/MagicCaps69420 Aug 07 '26
We’re so removed from knowing what it’s like to harvest animals for food. I don’t mean to be graphic but for example it breaks my heart every time I put a knife through a lobster’s head to make a lobster roll. I grew up with chickens too and when we would kill them to eat was always awful. If you eat meat I think that’s something you should experience just to know what happens if you choose to consume animal products.
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u/ceviche-hot-pockets Aug 07 '26
I couldn’t bring myself to eat one while in Peru or Bolivia. Llama, on the other hand…is pretty damn tasty lol.
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u/DianeDesRivieres Aug 07 '26
Sadly, no squeek.
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u/EveRPGames Aug 07 '26
I turned the sound on for the trills! My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
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u/NerdizardGo Aug 07 '26
Can't fool me, that's a newborn wookie.
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u/RutabagaUnlucky3420 Aug 07 '26
Had to scroll way far down for this.
getting all solo action with that hair day
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u/Several-Squash9871 Aug 07 '26
Would have been funny if it was just someone poking their head through the top of the table when they panned around to the front.
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u/Mslabarre Aug 07 '26
I was pretty sure that was what I was about to see.
For several minutes now, I’ve been sitting here trying to decide if I am more disappointed, because I was wrong, or glad, because it was actually a cute little critter…🙃
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u/Ill_Maintenance_362 Aug 07 '26
It’s a coronet guinea pig. It has one rosette on its crown. A peruvian guinea pig has 2-3 rosettes to cause the hair to grow over the head and cover the face/eyes. A silkie guinea pig has no rosettes and the hair flows smoothly back from the crown.
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u/Waste-Egg-2095 Aug 07 '26
If he was still in Peru they would eat him for dinner 😬
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u/Scatterbreaker Aug 07 '26
You could just drop this little guy on a bald dude‘s head and I think that would work just fine
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u/maverick4002 Aug 07 '26
I ate this last year while in Lima. It was the first time I felt ~sick and ive been to 31 countries. Had to take some pestobismol chewables for the first time ever
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u/UCFknight2016 Aug 07 '26
I worked with a guy from Peru who says they call these 'cuy' and they taste really good.
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u/YaBoiMandatoryToms Aug 07 '26
Peruvian guinea you say, someone needs to prep the kitchen for some Cuí.
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u/inspirationalSloth Aug 07 '26
It’s a guineawig