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Coolest/best/most convenient animal

10 years ago

I hope? think I speak for all of us when I say that the Komodo dragon is the coolest animal ever. It's a massive lizard with slow-acting paralitic poison and an awesome appearance in general.

But what would be the most convenient animal

or the best animal?

(it would be up to you what characteristics an animal should have that make it the "best" or most convenient)

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10 years ago
Two words: Mantis Shrimp.

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10 years ago

... Oh my god

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10 years ago

Cuttlefish makes the chameleon look like Napoleon Dynamite really, it even hypnotizes its prey with its skin alone, and can literally stretch its skin to the texture of whatever it is nearby. It is the ONLY known animal that a species of which has TOXIC FLESH. Also, it's Cthulhu's head, so you'd better respect the living shit out of it.

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10 years ago
That sounds similar to the Indonesian Mimic Octopus. At least the part about changing its skin and texture.

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10 years ago

This part sold it for me.

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The Mantis Shrimp is now my new favorite animal. ^.^

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10 years ago

"Murder sticks" haha!

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10 years ago

Mayhaps we should just give up on this superiority contest, and worship the glory of the mantis shrimp?

My mustache is better.

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10 years ago

Wait, I know what the Coolest/Best/Most Convenient animal would be. 

A Penguin and Mantis Shrimp hybrid with a mustache

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10 years ago

Now that's just silly.

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10 years ago

Obviously the pig. I present you this one key argument.

Bacon.

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10 years ago

Fine, Pig's are (possibly) the Coolest/best/most convenient animal on land and the Mantis Shrimp wins at sea.

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10 years ago

Cow beef and methane galore.

Did you know cows are most of the global warming problem? They fart and burp over 1.2 million tons of methane per day that's the whole world.

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10 years ago

So are the endless amounts of humans and cars that also produce methane every day...

Anyway's lets avoid world politics and common theory's.

 

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10 years ago

Yes let's. *wasn't a theory it was a factoid*

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10 years ago

Shall we not discuss the evolution of the world due to humanity's stupidity here?

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10 years ago

Foolish mortals we view ourselves at the top yet we destroy so much that is natural for unnatural things...

(sorry can't resist insulting human stupidity)

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10 years ago

(actually they are completely separate categories)

CURRENT RANKINGS




THE ALL MIGHTY MANTIS SHRIMP IS THE COOLEST ANIMAL EVER

THE ALL TASTY PIG IS THE MOST CONVENIENT ANIMAL EVER

BUT WHO IS THE BEST?

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10 years ago

Tasty pig tasty pig

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10 years ago

I'd have to put my vote for the BEST animal in the entire world as the Army-Ant's: Evidence by Cracked.com and many others if you bother to look the information up. 

"Army ants are also, happily, completely carnivorous, and with millions of them in one place at a time, they essentially never stop killing, tearing through hundreds or thousands of prey an hour. They only stop killing for a few weeks a year, but don't relax -- that's just because they take a breather to make more army ants.

They're clever, too, moving by day in a variety of formations to protect the more valuable members of the colony, and to drive and trap their prey before them. Witnesses have observed army ant waves 65 feet wide. And at night, the ants stop, forming a colony out of their own bodies, full of tunnels, passageways, and public spaces, filled with what still must surely be a tremendous amount of murdering other species.

They can turn cow corpses into skeletons, and yes, have already been known to kill humans, although for now it's just been the slowest and weakest -- people unable to move out of the way of the relatively slow-moving columns. But don't take too much solace in that, because they can move underground, too. And were they to ever organize on a scale larger than a few million, that could change. Because boy howdy, there are a lot of them. In terms of total body mass, all the ants on Earth may outweigh all the humans, and when you consider just how enormous humans are getting, that amounts to a whole lot of ants." -Cracked.com

     TL;DR = Army ant's will can eat entire humans and cows. They also come in swarms of up to millions and might possibly outweigh all the humans on earth according to bodymass.

     TL;DR^2 = They will eat you, there are millions of them. 

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10 years ago

He, I just read all of that a couple of minutes ago, I personally thin the octopi and the spiders were more intimidating

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10 years ago

Intimidating yes, deadly no. Army ants are the apex predator in their own little world you know what we humans need to do when we see a wave? Break out the flame thrower and burn baby, burn don't eat us!!! (This is kinda conflicting with another comment I made)

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10 years ago

In their world they are the apex predators. (Chronicle reference?)

But in our world, our feet are enough to kill most other "apex predators".

Not to mention, it you take a single army any and out him against an octopus, a human, or a spider, you'll get a spider with a snack, a little drown ant corpse, and chances are, ALOT of different ways to kill it if you're a human.

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10 years ago

Yes true and not a chronicle reference what is that? It was a reference to the fact that in the insect world nothing actively uses them as a food only they themselves use their dead.

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10 years ago

The cutest: baby homo sapiens sapiens.

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10 years ago

Incorrect, human babies are fat, toothless, hairless screaming little bags of hell. The cutest are kittens

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10 years ago

Have you seen freshly born kittens? They may not be as grotesque as human children right out of the womb, but they are not as fuzzy as we would like to think.

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10 years ago

http://evercats.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/newborn-kitten.jpg

 

 

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10 years ago

I beg to differ

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10 years ago

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10 years ago

*nothing looks good fresh out of the womb.

i bet if you cleaned it up though it would be better

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10 years ago

Which isn't to say kittens aren't cute, of course they are, that just isn't what I was talking about.

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10 years ago

The horned lizard of the American west can squirt blood out of its eyes... Let your brain chew on that a moment... Its EYES...

"Aw, look at the cute pancake lizard on the rock!"

*SQUIRT!

"?!?!"

"WHAT THE HELL IS IT DOING?!?"

"AIEEEEEE!!!! - it got in my mouth!!!!"

* Gag!

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10 years ago

Sounds like a perfect prank.

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10 years ago

I can see it now a kid's birthday party...

"Daddy look what Sam got me!!"

"ah a lizard (crouches) ah what the Hell it squirted something in my mouth!!!"

"Yeah it did that in Johnnys face it's blood from it's from its eye!!"

"SHITT!"