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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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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.
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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Perfumista Perfumista 4 years ago
So thats how witches measure the amount of toad in the potion
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GirlFriday 4 years ago
That puppy is the perfect weight. He is a snuggly weight. Give him to me and I will verify.
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Felicia Dale 4 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 4 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.
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Elaine Mattingly 4 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 4 years ago
Can they breathe out of water? Orca's are my sister's favorite animal so I should ask her
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
#dontbuyaticket #TanksButNoTanks #lifeinatanksucks #ricobarrydolphinproject Delete this one BP, it isn't right keeping the largest dolphin in a small tank.
jevais 4 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 4 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 4 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.
THE DOG LIFE 4 years ago
Wait... won't the pressure of the orca and the scale hurt its stomach somehow?
Raine Soo 4 years ago
That smile is amazing. I never smile like this when I have a weigh-in...
jevais 4 years ago
Raine Soo that can't smile, it's impossible it's just the way their face is.
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sorlag110 4 years ago
Nope, in very large pools of water, even an Ocra isn't massive enough to significantly displace the water. And the little it does is near impossibe to measure in real time because water becomes chaotic at larger scales. The random oscillations in the water makes small measurements unusable unless it's a statistical average over time. Unless the caretakers are super unethical they wouldn't put the Orca in a pool small enough to make a water displacement measurement work. Orcas will however voluntarily jump up to a platform. Hope it makes more sense now.
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Michelle Muirhead 4 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.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
Keeper: "You're overweight." Penguin: "Says the one who feeds me while I'm on the actual scales!"
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comboplush 4 years ago
Now that's the content we want to see! Please more owlrittos, ducklings and baby manta rays, and less influencer shots!
Zophra 4 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 4 years ago
I never even knew they weighed animals in different ways! This was amazing to read ❤️
2WheelTravlr 4 years ago
Thank you for the smiles and laughs, now I need to go find something floofy to hug.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
The only part of the vet visit my snek hates is going in the cold metal container to be weighed. It's cold in there! Otherwise, he likes his vet.
Pretty Pangolin 4 years ago
That's adorable, I didn't know snakes were that expressive. Maybe the vet can line the container with a towel and then subtract the weight?
Load More Replies... Umgreg Universe 4 years ago (edited)
And THIS is what I come to Bored Panda for! Adorable animals and wholesomeness! ♥️❤️
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Adorable animals all over the world suffer immensely, both wild and domesticated. They need people who not only adore them but help them live. Please support animal protection organizations which fight against human evil monsters who unconscionably torture and kill animals. Thank you all for your compassion and understanding. ____ "One doesn't have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient." - Charles M. Blow
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Maggie Smith 4 years ago (edited)
Have the people who have said these animals should NOT be in zoos or kept confined seen any of the different zoo shows on now? There are shows from The San Diego Zoo, The Bronx Zoo, The Miami Zoo, The Chester Zoo in England, the Cincinnati Zoo; "The Zoo Down Under" in Australia, the "Crikey, It's The(Steve) Irwins". They have taught the elephants to lift each leg in turn to have their toenails filed down; all of the "Big Cats" to get on the scales to be weighed; a kangaroo was given therapy for a hip that was hurting; a flamingo was given a leg brace and water therapy to heal a hurt leg. I would like to have the medical attention all of the animals get.
Maggie Smith 4 years ago
This is the rest of my comment: Most animals are NOT in a cage.. ALL of these zoos are re-habing injured animals to release when well enough; breeding animals that are endangered to be released back into the wild to help re-establish them, ALL of the animals know their keepers and love doing things for them.
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comboplush 4 years ago
Now that's the content we want to see! Please more owlrittos, ducklings and baby manta rays, and less influencer shots!
Zophra 4 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 4 years ago
I never even knew they weighed animals in different ways! This was amazing to read ❤️
2WheelTravlr 4 years ago
Thank you for the smiles and laughs, now I need to go find something floofy to hug.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
The only part of the vet visit my snek hates is going in the cold metal container to be weighed. It's cold in there! Otherwise, he likes his vet.
Pretty Pangolin 4 years ago
That's adorable, I didn't know snakes were that expressive. Maybe the vet can line the container with a towel and then subtract the weight?
Load More Replies... Umgreg Universe 4 years ago (edited)
And THIS is what I come to Bored Panda for! Adorable animals and wholesomeness! ♥️❤️
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Adorable animals all over the world suffer immensely, both wild and domesticated. They need people who not only adore them but help them live. Please support animal protection organizations which fight against human evil monsters who unconscionably torture and kill animals. Thank you all for your compassion and understanding. ____ "One doesn't have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient." - Charles M. Blow
Load More Replies... Maggie Smith 4 years ago (edited)
Have the people who have said these animals should NOT be in zoos or kept confined seen any of the different zoo shows on now? There are shows from The San Diego Zoo, The Bronx Zoo, The Miami Zoo, The Chester Zoo in England, the Cincinnati Zoo; "The Zoo Down Under" in Australia, the "Crikey, It's The(Steve) Irwins". They have taught the elephants to lift each leg in turn to have their toenails filed down; all of the "Big Cats" to get on the scales to be weighed; a kangaroo was given therapy for a hip that was hurting; a flamingo was given a leg brace and water therapy to heal a hurt leg. I would like to have the medical attention all of the animals get.
Maggie Smith 4 years ago
This is the rest of my comment: Most animals are NOT in a cage.. ALL of these zoos are re-habing injured animals to release when well enough; breeding animals that are endangered to be released back into the wild to help re-establish them, ALL of the animals know their keepers and love doing things for them.
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