🧵 Are Tsuchinokos Real?
Anonymous at Mon, 13 May 2024 01:51:24 UTC No. 16173167
800 join search party for legendary 'tsuchinoko' creature in Japan village
https://mainichi.jp/english/article
HIGASHISHIRAKAWA, Gifu -- Hundreds of curious-minded people joined an annual event here to look for the legendary "tsuchinoko" snakelike creature, but to no avail, again, with no one being able to claim the 1.32-million-yen (roughly $8,540) prize money.
The 32nd Tsuchinoko Festa was held in the central Japan village on May 3, during the "Golden Week" holiday period, with some 800 people from inside and outside Gifu Prefecture joining to search for tsuchinoko.
According to the tsuchinoko museum in the village, the creature resembles a snake with a triangular head, a body length of 30 to 80 centimeters and a torso as thick as a beer bottle. It moves quickly in a straight line, and is said to jump and roll.
The village prides itself as a location with multiple tsuchinoko sightings, and has held the search operation event since 1989. The prize money started out at 1 million yen (about $6,500), and 10,000 yen (roughly $65) has been added each year when no one could find the creature, bringing the total to 1.32 million yen this year.
The search area was on a mountainside that used to be a tea plantation, which was narrowed down based on the tsuchinoko's presumed habitat such as being "near the water and 'warabi' bracken fern which they feed on."
Anonymous at Mon, 13 May 2024 01:51:33 UTC No. 16173168
The participants were divided into groups of four and looked for the mystical animal through the grass for around half an hour, using poles and insect nets. A 52-year-old man from Nagano who joined the event for the first time with his family told the Mainichi Shimbun, "While we couldn't find any, maybe tsuchinoko should stay legendary."
Tsuchinoko sightings have been reported in the village from the early Showa period (1926-1989). The tsuchinoko legend pamphlet that the village created includes testimonies such as, "I thought it was an issho-bin sake bottle (which holds 1.8 liters of liquid)," "It was silver and shining," and, "It sounded like a tire when I threw a stone at it."
Anonymous at Mon, 13 May 2024 18:30:18 UTC No. 16174278
yes they're real, but they're made out of dark matter
prove me wrong
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 00:57:38 UTC No. 16174797
>>16174278
Dark matter is non-baryonic and thus does not interact electromagnetically and thus could not sustain the complex chemical reactions required for life.
🗑️ Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 08:53:14 UTC No. 16175220
>>16174797
this schizo is actually gullible and out of touch enough to believe in dark matter. sad state of affairs
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 20:04:41 UTC No. 16175972
>>16174797
Learn 21st century slang already, anon.
Dark = we don't have a clue
Cloud = somebody else's computer
Vaccine = mandatory therapy
etc.
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 21:29:05 UTC No. 16176131
I bet they are cute
🗑️ Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 09:06:27 UTC No. 16176846
maybe they can genetically engineer one
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 00:48:14 UTC No. 16177713
>>16173167
>look it up
>it's just a fat snake
what a lame cryptid
they shuold put that effort into finding the native mainland wolves instead, since they're the last pleistocene wolves
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 10:21:58 UTC No. 16178172
>>16177692
I SWEAR I saw something magical, mystical, that would defy all logic. It's a sign of the divine, that there are things we don't know, that there really is magic in the world.
What's it look like?
It's basically a slightly chunky snake.
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 10:25:09 UTC No. 16178180
>>16177692
>>16177713
Shut up
It is a LEGENDARY CREATURE
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 21:56:08 UTC No. 16178987
>>16178172
right, why would anyone make up a creature like that. they have to be real.
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 09:16:17 UTC No. 16179571
>look for them at the same time every year
pretty clever, what if they happen to be hibernating that time of year?
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 23:08:54 UTC No. 16180661
>>16179571
>I looked all over for polar bears every January for the past 20 years, but I never found any, they must be mythical
Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 06:05:26 UTC No. 16181098
>>16178180
it looks like someone attached the head of a turtle to a turd
Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 23:40:44 UTC No. 16182140
>>16173167
>tsuchinoko
it's originally a chinese mythical creature copied into japan. would be more fruitful to search inside china instead.
🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 18:24:54 UTC No. 16183068
>>16182140
>chinks claiming that all japanese culture is stolen from chinkistan
>chinks also loathe japan
explain
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 18:27:16 UTC No. 16183079
>>16182124
Or ran into a one-off mutant lizard with no legs. Surely it's happened a few times.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 19:00:36 UTC No. 16183134
>>16183068
I don't know about other stuff but the fat mythical snakes is a literal 1:1 imported copy from chinkstan legend so it's stupid to search in japan.
🗑️ Anonymous at Mon, 20 May 2024 05:05:59 UTC No. 16183913
>>16183079
Legless lizards are actually fairly common
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legle
🗑️ Anonymous at Mon, 20 May 2024 21:41:31 UTC No. 16185120
>>16183913
>Legless lizards
those are snakes
Anonymous at Tue, 21 May 2024 09:18:19 UTC No. 16185897
>>16185120
>NOOOOO!!!!
>legless lizards and snakes are different because reasons and stuff or something!!!
>t. soiyence faggot
why are soiyence faggots so enamored with stupid useless semantics?
Anonymous at Tue, 21 May 2024 23:04:55 UTC No. 16186941
>>16183913
>Sheltopusiks can detach their tail which is like 50% of their body and it grows back shorter
>native to Russia
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 00:53:18 UTC No. 16187095
>>16185897
>why are soiyence faggots so enamored with stupid useless semantics?
Common calling card of people who have no legitimate worthwhile knowledge. Also the gateway to schizophasia
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 20:32:44 UTC No. 16188474
>>16186941
thats a snake
Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 01:22:13 UTC No. 16188808
>>16185897
>stupid useless semantics
Semantics are what distinguish you from the other Apes.
Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 07:03:37 UTC No. 16189090
from evidence (not posted here) it seems to suggest they do not
Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 07:17:54 UTC No. 16189105
>>16188474
It's not a snake if it has its anus more in the middle. So it is written.
Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 21:27:53 UTC No. 16190150
>>16189105
its clearly a snake, no amount of gay soiyence semantics will ever change that
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 07:03:30 UTC No. 16190741
>>16190150
Maybe not, but the fags will still try. They are still faggots after all
Anonymous at Sat, 25 May 2024 04:42:08 UTC No. 16192063
>>16174278
not possible, dark matter is made out of unicorns
Anonymous at Sat, 25 May 2024 23:50:38 UTC No. 16193351
>>16192063
Maybe tsuchinokos are just legless unicorns
Anonymous at Sun, 26 May 2024 09:56:26 UTC No. 16193851
>>16193351
without horns
Anonymous at Sun, 26 May 2024 22:31:42 UTC No. 16194879
>>16193851
You can't say for certain that they don't have horns because nobody has ever seen one
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 20:19:48 UTC No. 16196395
>>16177692
that seems like a pretty based form of locomotion, how come no real animals have ever invented it?
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 23:01:38 UTC No. 16196726
>>16173167
>racist image
playing with fire, I see
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 08:22:37 UTC No. 16197370
>>16173167
>>16173168
>>16174278
>>16174797
>>16175972
>>16176131
>>16177692
>>16177713
>>16178172
>>16178180
>>16178987
>>16179571
>>16180661
>>16181098
>>16182124
>>16182140
>>16183079
>>16183134
>>16185897
>>16186941
>>16187095
>>16188474
>>16188808
>>16189090
>>16189105
>>16190150
>>16190741
>>16192063
>>16193351
>>16193851
>>16194879
>>16196395
>>16196726
>>16197111
Tsuchinoko if he real
Roteman at Tue, 28 May 2024 08:39:35 UTC No. 16197396
>>16196395
bro its a dumbass way to locomote, one way is dependent on a movement which isnt in the direction the head is pointing the other one is dependent on a hill or drop, ask yourself that dumbass question, in water? sure that locomotion method might be viable but not on land where gravity is a big thing.
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 11:57:06 UTC No. 16197567
>>16196395
I have wonderful news for you
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Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 23:24:40 UTC No. 16198380
>>16197370
fat snake is fat
Anonymous at Wed, 29 May 2024 07:05:43 UTC No. 16198798
>>16197370
The gaboon viper also has the fastest strike of any snake. Maybe they used to live or currently live in Japan and thats where the Tsuchinoko legend comes from
Anonymous at Wed, 29 May 2024 08:10:31 UTC No. 16198847
>>16198798
There are other fat snakes closer to Japan anon. If it were based on a real animal it’d sooner be one of the short tailed pythons from SE Asia
Anonymous at Wed, 29 May 2024 20:08:23 UTC No. 16199543
>>16198847
The gaboon viper has a more appropriate head shape than the pythons do
Anonymous at Wed, 29 May 2024 22:09:34 UTC No. 16199788
>>16199543
And a blue tongued skink would have a more appropriate head shape than either, doesn’t make it more likely
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 05:59:05 UTC No. 16200309
you can't find them in Japari park
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 06:21:27 UTC No. 16200356
>>16199788
nice try, but skinks have legs and tsuchinokos don't
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 10:52:37 UTC No. 16200582
>>16200356
Think again
Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 21:12:11 UTC No. 16201413
>>16200582
shooped
Anonymous at Fri, 31 May 2024 05:48:30 UTC No. 16202086
>>16200582
Does it really do the rolling downhill thing too?
Anonymous at Sat, 1 Jun 2024 19:24:33 UTC No. 16204999
I live in Japan, they're real, I've seen them
Anonymous at Sun, 2 Jun 2024 10:08:08 UTC No. 16205994
>>16204999
digits confirm
Anonymous at Sun, 2 Jun 2024 10:28:46 UTC No. 16206003
>>16197370
Full-adder
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jun 2024 05:02:15 UTC No. 16207273
>>16203069
Wild animals can't be "obese", high bodyweight for them is just a natural side effect of living in a healthier than normal environment or being an unusually fit individual. In just about ever species the ones with the most body fat are the ones that are winning at life.
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jun 2024 05:16:25 UTC No. 16207281
>>16207273
With very few exceptions, you are wrong. Most animals besides humans dont accumulate excessive body fat the way humans do. If they are in a "healthier than normal environment" they don't just keep eating and gaining excess fat, because for most animals, it's maladaptive. Excess fat slows down prey animals making them easier to catch and slow down predators making them worse at catching prey.
Hibernating animals are one of the few exceptions to this.
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jun 2024 06:46:33 UTC No. 16207371
>>16207273
That’s a chart for captive snakes retard. Obesity in pet snakes is extremely common
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jun 2024 19:16:28 UTC No. 16208226
>>16207371
>wild animals won't eat to excess given the opportunity
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jun 2024 21:43:18 UTC No. 16208435
>>16208226
Hibernating animals and marine mammals that need it for insulation are notable exceptions.
The bear fattens up on foods that it does not have to chase down with high speed - fish, berries, nuts, etc. Most animals can't afford to be slowed down by that kind of bodyfat. Game meat is almost universally very lean.
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jun 2024 21:49:50 UTC No. 16208445
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 00:03:24 UTC No. 16208722
>>16208435
See >>16207371
It’s very easy for a snake that naturally eats a lean small wild mammal every few months to get morbidly obese as a pet where it’s given a grain fed domestic rat every couple weeks
Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 16:01:25 UTC No. 16209921
>>16208722
We were discussing wild animals, anon. Not captive ones.
Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 01:11:42 UTC No. 16210846
>>16209921
The pic that started the discussion is about captive animals, anon. Not wild ones
Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 01:28:55 UTC No. 16210856
>>16208226
Wild animals are lazy af, they exercise as little as possible. If they have tons of food easily accessible they will get fat for sure.
Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 05:34:22 UTC No. 16211117
>>16210846
I understand that Anon, but other anons spoke in general terms about all animals.
Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 21:39:37 UTC No. 16212499
>>16208435
>its just an exception
lame cope
Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 08:03:48 UTC No. 16213269
>>16204999
What do they look like?
Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 01:18:45 UTC No. 16218564
>>16213269
It's basically a slightly chunky snake.
🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 19:36:37 UTC No. 16220393
>>16218564
poisonous or nonpoisonous?
Anonymous at Sat, 8 Jun 2024 05:31:00 UTC No. 16221354
>>16189105
Science really is just a religion with arbitrary meaningless made up rules
Anonymous at Sat, 8 Jun 2024 21:02:00 UTC No. 16222812
>>16221354
"science" has become a fancy brand name
Anonymous at Sat, 8 Jun 2024 21:13:33 UTC No. 16222843
If I found a fat snake I could just call it one of them
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 09:09:41 UTC No. 16224052
Fatsnake would be a great name for if David Coverdale ever gets the band back together
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 23:05:40 UTC No. 16225710
>>16177692
Thats what makes it likely that they're real