Submitted 2 weeks ago by muhyb@programming.dev to science_memes@mander.xyz
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What’s more interesting is, beaver castor sacs also used as a strawberry and vanilla flavour substitute, approved by FDA.
I hear the beaver glands taste like vanilla, but I can’t be sure that’s not just a prank people pull to get unsuspecting victims to lick beaver ass.
prank people pull Maybe it’s a “prank” beavers pull.
Vanillin, the modern artificial vanilla flavor, is made from lignin, one of the main components of bark. Beavers eat a lot of bark, and thus process a lot of lignin. Apparently the lignin accumulates in their anal scent glands.
Who smells like freaking Porpoise Hork!?
Precious hamburgers?
Ambergris is what “whale vomit” is called, in case anyone didn’t know. I don’t know what beaver anus secretion is called.
We need to leave beavers alone. If i want to smell ome i’ll go find one in the wild and cuddle it
Sadly, they are not very cuddly, despite being friend-shaped:
My oh my. I need to study up on my TierZoo. Nothing with a “bite through trees” ability will avoid using it on humans.
98% of Moby Dick was concentrated on the old ass whaling industry, and based on this I believe it was actually whale phlegm
I’d say there should be a third arm with musk deer on it.
Binturong poops smell like popcorn, I heard. Though sometimes my poops also smell a bit like popcorn
ech@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Oh god…
Somehow better, but still horrifying.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Semen actually became a semi-popular note in boutique fragrances some years ago, ELDO’s Secretions Magnifique comes to mind.