what animals die the worst death???

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Vegitto

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How about eels? They get thrown into buckets of salt alive. You don't know what it does? It dissolves their skin. So, picture this:

You've been happily living your life, not doing harm, and suddenly, something is yanking your mouth. You're pulled up, and it's harder to breathe every time it pulls. Then, you get above the surface, a whole new, burning world, it hurts your eyes, you can't breathe. You get thrown in a net to suffocate for a few more minutes, and then you're thrown in a bucket of salt. You're suffocating badly, your eyes popping out of your head because of the pressure difference, your skin is melting. Then, after hours and hours of pain, you die in agony.

How about that for a death? I'd rather get shot and suffer for a couple of minutes than that.
 

JLGatsby

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The lobster doesn't feel the hot water at all. It has been studied and lobsters cannot "feel" the boiling water when they die.
 

MagicConch

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I saw a chicken being eaten alive by a ton of ants. That was pretty bad b/c at first the chicken was pretty excited to see the ants and was gobbling them up until they overpowered it.
 

So

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Originally posted by: MagicConch
I saw a chicken being eaten alive by a ton of ants. That was pretty bad b/c at first the chicken was pretty excited to see the ants and was gobbling them up until they overpowered it.


:laugh: That's pretty ironic, actually.
 

Kelvrick

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Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: MagicConch
I saw a chicken being eaten alive by a ton of ants. That was pretty bad b/c at first the chicken was pretty excited to see the ants and was gobbling them up until they overpowered it.


:laugh: That's pretty ironic, actually.

Need video, stat!
 

MagicConch

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Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: MagicConch
I saw a chicken being eaten alive by a ton of ants. That was pretty bad b/c at first the chicken was pretty excited to see the ants and was gobbling them up until they overpowered it.


:laugh: That's pretty ironic, actually.

Need video, stat!

lol, I'd definitely post it if I had video. It was in a village in India, and I remember the first thought I had in my head was 'In Soviet Russia, food eats you'
 

rh71

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Originally posted by: BCYL
Actually lobsters have a pretty good death... if you put them in the pot, then boil the water, the lobsters don't feel slow increase in temperature and slowly dies...
it is said by scientists that lobsters don't have the capacity to *feel* pain.

I personally think those scientists are just seafood lovers. ;)

I wonder if any insects *feel* pain either.
 

jagec

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Originally posted by: JLGatsby
The lobster doesn't feel the hot water at all. It has been studied and lobsters cannot "feel" the boiling water when they die.

They thrash around just for the hell of it?

When I was in Madagascar, they didn't even boil them. They just stick the lobster straight on a grill, and pin it down until it loses strength. But it still moves its legs and feelers for a good five minutes. Yikes.

Originally posted by: Vegitto
How about eels? They get thrown into buckets of salt alive. You don't know what it does? It dissolves their skin. So, picture this:

Huh, didn't know that. Yeah, sounds like a winner...or loser, as it may be.
 

Vic

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Lobster and insects don't even have brains, but collections of nerve centers (called ganglia). They're also exo-skeletal and don't have anything remotely resembling skin (with nerve endings capable of sensing pain) in the reptilian/avian/mammallian sense. It's very unlikely they can feel pain and any thrashings are probably reflex actions.

This whole "animals suffer worse deaths than humans" flies in the face of known science, especially when we're talking about arthropods ("bugs and lobsters"), which don't even have brains or skin. And those physical differences aside, it also ignores the known roles that intelligence and self-awareness have to do with the abilities to perceive pain and feel fear.
 

RaistlinZ

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Why does the male praying mantis allow himself to get killed by the female after sex? Is the female of the species bigger or something? Why don't they just run away when they see the female about to kill them?

I just don't get it.
 

miri

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Those animals that get skinned alive for their fur. They are still alive after they have been skinned and just lay there to die a slow death.