There's an animal that smells like buttered popcorn. The binturong (Arctictis binturong), a Southeast Asian "bearcat," smells like buttered popcorn due to 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (2-AP) in its urine, which it uses to mark territory. This chemical is the same aromatic compound produced when popcorn is popped. These arboreal, cat-like mammals are threatened by habitat loss.

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