Favorite aminals?

[phucheneh]

Yeah. Just like children [with speech impediments] say it.

I remember this being a thing as a young child. But since children don't get taught shit, all they can come up with is, like, 'dog' and 'cat.' The more adventurous children may say 'dolphin' or something. But fuck dolphins...what a shitty animal. It's a big dumb fucking fish with a big flaccid rapist dick. What a terrible thing to teach children about.

So what's a cool-as-shit animal that you never knew existed until you stumbled across pictures/video/info?

The mantis shrimp comes to mind. Especially the peacock mantis shrimp.

The mantis shrimp is neither a mantis nor a shrimp. But it does possess utensils for slicing, stabbing, and clubbing its prey to death. Yeah, this bad motherfucker eats other sea creatures by smashing their shells to bits and then consuming the delicious gooey insides.

They are not very good in aquariums, because they make everything else their bitch (which is what happens right before they make it food) and then they smash the aquarium glass and come for you while you sleep.

Okay, I may have made that last part up, but only the 'murder you in your sleep' part. They can break aquarium glass with their big poundy fist-arm thing that accelerates with a force of up to 10,000 G's. Also look at these fucking eyes:

Go home, mantis shrimp, you're drunk.

 

[Mixolydian]

I like zebras.

Also on my list are ducks, geese, and giraffes.

 

[Ruptga]

You're a little late for the mantis shrimp madness.
posted some time this last winter

 

[phucheneh]

You're a little late for the mantis shrimp madness.
posted some time this last winter

Well fine, how about the elephant shrew?

'Oh,' you say, 'it's a little mouse-rat-thing with a long nose, so they called it an elephant just to be cute.'

Nope. Much like the mantis shrimp, it is also not a shrew. It's not a shrimp, either. It actually IS a relative of the elephant.

Also, they menstruate.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

dogs & bears

 

[skyking]

penguins and leopard seals

 

[phucheneh]

DAMN YOU ALL

skyking, you got a little creative with 'leopard seals,' but still.

Tell me why I should give a fuck about the leopard seal. Does it seal leopards? Into what?

 

[shortylickens]

 

[phucheneh]

Red panda (which is notsomuchatall a bear, but more a badass raccoon!)! Yes, this is acceptable.

 

[MongGrel]

Yeah. Just like children [with speech impediments] say it.

I remember this being a thing as a young child. But since children don't get taught shit, all they can come up with is, like, 'dog' and 'cat.' The more adventurous children may say 'dolphin' or something. But fuck dolphins...what a shitty animal. It's a big dumb fucking fish with a big flaccid rapist dick. What a terrible thing to teach children about.

So what's a cool-as-shit animal that you never knew existed until you stumbled across pictures/video/info?

The mantis shrimp comes to mind. Especially the peacock mantis shrimp.

The mantis shrimp is neither a mantis nor a shrimp. But it does possess utensils for slicing, stabbing, and clubbing its prey to death. Yeah, this bad motherfucker eats other sea creatures by smashing their shells to bits and then consuming the delicious gooey insides.

They are not very good in aquariums, because they make everything else their bitch (which is what happens right before they make it food) and then they smash the aquarium glass and come for you while you sleep.

Okay, I may have made that last part up, but only the 'murder you in your sleep' part. They can break aquarium glass with their big poundy fist-arm thing that accelerates with a force of up to 10,000 G's. Also look at these fucking eyes:

Go home, mantis shrimp, you're drunk.

I hate those actually.

I used to have a salt water tank set up and bought a live rock that had one living inside it.

I wondered why all my expensive fish were getting killed, sat one nite and watched one of those little pukes pop out and kill one.

So I got him shortly after when he popped out of his hole with a hat pin.

 

[Ruptga]

Then what, did you put him on a salad? Stir fry with some onions and beef, perhaps?

 

[skyking]

DAMN YOU ALL

skyking, you got a little creative with 'leopard seals,' but still.

Tell me why I should give a fuck about the leopard seal. Does it seal leopards? Into what?

Prey and predator, respectively.
The leopard seal is a massive carnivore, and this video is why I like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxa6P73Awcg

 

[Red Squirrel]

I've always liked squirrels, chipmunks and other rodents, they're so cute and cuddly looking. I remember back when I was still in school and got summers off I'd go camping a lot, it was fun feeding the squirrels and chipmunks. Now it's a very rare sight. There is one squirrel in my neighborhood and I see it MAYBE once a year. I'd have to put some feeders up to attract it, but then all the crows and pigeons will probably get to it first. There's also at least 3 chipmunks but have not seen them in a while. People drive like maniacs on my street because people here seem to think "school zone" means "drag race strip" so they are pretty much doomed if they happen to try crossing it.

 

[Dirigible]

The Oatmeal link covers it, but the color recognition of the mantis shrimp would be amazing to experience.

My favorite aminal is the crafty trilobite. Too bad it's extinct. Pretty sure I was a trilobite in one of my past lives.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

 

[MiniDoom]

Bacon.