r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AmyFox92 • 23h ago
This animal quiz from a flight I was on, neither answer is right however the ‘correct’ answer was raccoon.
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u/Hattix 23h ago
Red pandas are a funny animal. In Chinese they're called "fire fox" as they had no idea what to call them either.
They're biologically ailurids, an offshoot of the musteloid lineage, but are not mustelids (weasels, wolverines, badgers, stoats, otters), procyonids (raccoons) or mephitids (skunks) themselves, they're their own thing which diverged off earlier than all those three: Raccoons, skunks, and weasels are all more closely related to each other than to ailurids.
If you're making a puzzle for kids, just don't include them.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 23h ago
They probably grabbed a bunch of random animal photos and guessed what they were. Like if I had a picture of a vole, I might be like "definitely a mouse".
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u/ShylokVakarian 22h ago edited 10h ago
So, the correct answer is "an adorable abomination of the musteloids"
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u/Ok_Builder_4225 21h ago
Them standing up and raising their arms to appear big and scary is the cutest thing i've ever seen. I'd want to pick 'em up and would wind up getting bit. Adorable is right!
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u/billthedog0082 21h ago
You gotta love really blatant mistakes in these AI games. Oh it has a mask, must be a raccoon.
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u/NoOneStranger_227 23h ago
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's A FROG!!
A FROG????
Cue the Underdog theme.
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u/zorbina 18h ago
I assume this was an Asian flight? Probably just a matter of translation to English. Red pandas are more closely related to North American raccoons, not much to Giant Pandas. Then throw in the Asian "raccoon dog" which is more closely related to dogs than to any of the others, and you can add even more confusion. (This does look like a red panda, not a raccoon dog.)
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u/mehall27 21h ago
I know red pandas aren't technically panda bears and I believe they are more closely related to racoons than pandas, but you basically would have needed to study biology to know that
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u/Logical-Drummer2414 12h ago
I thought that that was just common knowledge
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u/mehall27 12h ago
I never assume what is considered common knowledge when it comes to animals. I'm a biologist so it felt common knowledge to me but I wasn't sure lol
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u/grantnel2002 23h ago
*none of the answers are correct
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u/AmyFox92 23h ago
I’m jet lagged, I literally just got off the plane and I was in a hurry to share my frustration after a 15 hour flight
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u/HappyMetalViking 21h ago
Despite sharing a common name, red pandas are not closely related to giant pandas—often considered the real panda. Phylogenetically, the red panda falls under a unique taxonomic group called Ailuridae, sharing common traits with mustelids, which includes racoons, weasels and skunks. Giant pandas are classified under a separate, distant taxonomic family of bears called Ursidae.
Raccoon is the Most correct
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u/ALF839 18h ago
Panda is the most correct. The term panda comes from the Nepali name for red pandas, it's association with panda bears came later. Red pandas are not racoons, they are as closely related to racoons as they are to skunks or ferrets.
Giant pandas are the impostors. They are bears, not closely related to the much superior and cuter red panda.
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u/Specific_Dirt_5225 22h ago
To be fair, I saw a racoon that was red like this in a Louisiana swamp back in February.
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u/FairCommon3861 21h ago
The ones by Honey Island Swamp?
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u/Specific_Dirt_5225 21h ago
Not exactly there but I looked it up and we were close. I was on a tour from New Orleans.
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u/Appropriate_Cod_5446 22h ago
I think it’s supposed to be a Japanese raccoon (tanuki) but they got the wrong picture. They do look like a lil panda to my untrained eye. Fluff is fluff!
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u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 21h ago
Tanuki are related to dogs, which is why they’re known as raccoon dogs. They are not related to raccoons.
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u/Appropriate_Cod_5446 21h ago
I know, they’re closely related to foxes and dogs. But I think they’re supposed to be tricky questions? Or just plain wrong 😭🤣
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u/Natti07 22h ago
Well, that's a panda.
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u/HappyMetalViking 21h ago
Despite sharing a common name, red pandas are not closely related to giant pandas—often considered the real panda. Phylogenetically, the red panda falls under a unique taxonomic group called Ailuridae, sharing common traits with mustelids, which includes racoons, weasels and skunks. Giant pandas are classified under a separate, distant taxonomic family of bears called Ursidae.
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u/Natti07 21h ago
Ok? But that is still not a raccoon, even if it is in whatever formal grouping. Given the choices offered, the answer would still be panda bc it's a red panda, not a raccoon and not a frog. No one said it's closely related to a Giant panda.
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u/HappyMetalViking 21h ago
Its called a Red Panda but it is not a Panda. The "richtest" Answer is raccoon
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u/heXagenius 13h ago
while that is true, red pandas had the name first, so you could argue they're the real pandas after all
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u/Asleep_Fix3900 12h ago
Lmfao 🤣 so Red pandas r also known as raccoons these days.. yep that's fitting for current world conditions 😀
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u/ajshifter 9h ago
A captain or flight attendant did this so it seems more like a "not my job" situation
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u/2b-Kindly_ 21h ago
RED PANDA not Raccoon
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u/HappyMetalViking 21h ago
Despite sharing a common name, red pandas are not closely related to giant pandas—often considered the real panda. Phylogenetically, the red panda falls under a unique taxonomic group called Ailuridae, sharing common traits with mustelids, which includes racoons, weasels and skunks. Giant pandas are classified under a separate, distant taxonomic family of bears called Ursidae.
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u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777 21h ago
No wonder that hamster in a kerchief looks pissed. He knows a red panda when he sees one.
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u/Adventurous-Leek5066 23h ago
They are not raccoons
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u/HappyMetalViking 21h ago
Despite sharing a common name, red pandas are not closely related to giant pandas—often considered the real panda. Phylogenetically, the red panda falls under a unique taxonomic group called Ailuridae, sharing common traits with mustelids, which includes racoons, weasels and skunks. Giant pandas are classified under a separate, distant taxonomic family of bears called Ursidae.
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u/Adventurous-Leek5066 19h ago
Still a diffrent animal
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u/HappyMetalViking 21h ago
Red Pandas are not Pandas...https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/red-panda#:~:text=Despite%20sharing%20a%20common%20name,includes%20racoons%2C%20weasels%20and%20skunks.
Despite sharing a common name, red pandas are not closely related to giant pandas—often considered the real panda. Phylogenetically, the red panda falls under a unique taxonomic group called Ailuridae, sharing common traits with mustelids, which includes racoons, weasels and skunks. Giant pandas are classified under a separate, distant taxonomic family of bears called Ursidae.
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u/Boring-Highlight4034 23h ago
Looks like a red panda to me