AdmiralPeacock
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This mofo!
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What are the most advanced species on the planet?
- Thread starter Doghouse
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AdmiralPeacock said:This mofo!
What is it?!
Also why is it so gross?
I think the best candidate so far is the owl to be honest. All the accoutrements of a bird of prey, coupled to stealthy feathers and night vision. Not the most successful animal species ever, but then success is not a direct indicator of quality, as the movie industry can prove.
AdmiralPeacock
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Doghouse said:AdmiralPeacock said:This mofo!
What is it?!
Also why is it so gross?
I think the best candidate so far is the owl to be honest. All the accoutrements of a bird of prey, coupled to stealthy feathers and night vision. Not the most successful animal species ever, but then success is not a direct indicator of quality, as the movie industry can prove.
It's a Bobbit Worm... and here's the kicker, the females BITE OFF the male's penis after mating and feeds it to their young when the time comes.
SagansHeroes
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Reminds me of the Praying mantis, eating the males head after mating etc.AdmiralPeacock said:
Although the way that thing looks, I'm surprised it has an edible penis.
Anachronous Rex
Active Member
Doghouse said:
Seriously? As beaked predators go how is an owl better then an octopus? They can change their fucking shape and color, manipulate their envoronment, use tools, have very good vision, demonstrate amazing cunning, kill sharks, and some of them are even poisonous.
Owls subtly eliminate rodents and have blue poo.
Anachronous Rex said:
I'd argue the ability to fly in the dark and pick off rodents in wooded areas, without the benefit of echo-location, is a pretty awesome ability though.
So octopuses then, what's their pitch? What's this about killing sharks?
Incidentally, is there a fossil record for squishy creatures like the octopus? Did they evolve from things that had shells? Also were there huge giant awesome octopuses in prehistoric times in the same way as there were giant sharks?
I know it's childish, but frankly I just think animals that are massive are much cooler than the smaller ones. Any idiot can be small, it takes a lot more effort to be huge.
AdmiralPeacock
Member
How about little bow peep here
RichardMNixon
Active Member
Doghouse said:
Watch out.
Tongue-stealing parasites probably win the "most terrifying species on the planet" award.
Anachronous Rex
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AdmiralPeacock
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Nothing beats the babipede!
Except maybe it's mummy!
Except maybe it's mummy!
Independent Vision
Member
Personally I have always viewed this animal as one of the more advanced species:
http://www.physorg.com/news187298115.html
I have always been extremely fascinated by the Orcinus orca.
Not only is the Orca whale one of the apex predators of the ocean, it also has complex social structures and the closest thing to culture you can come outside of the human world.
The complexity of their pods and the difference between the resident orca pods and the transient orca pods are amazing.
Their bio-sonar is highly sophisticated and certain groups can even single out their favorite types of fish over long distances.
The more I read about them, the more they continue to amaze me.
http://www.physorg.com/news187298115.html
I have always been extremely fascinated by the Orcinus orca.
Not only is the Orca whale one of the apex predators of the ocean, it also has complex social structures and the closest thing to culture you can come outside of the human world.
The complexity of their pods and the difference between the resident orca pods and the transient orca pods are amazing.
Their bio-sonar is highly sophisticated and certain groups can even single out their favorite types of fish over long distances.
The more I read about them, the more they continue to amaze me.
TheFlyingBastard
Member
It is aptly named a blobfish.nasher168 said:
Aught3 said:
Antarctic krill, 500 million tonnes of advanced-animal goodness.
Not advanced enough to avoid whales though. And it's not like whales are hard to spot.
I saw a movie once where an Orca killed all of Richard Harris' friends and family and stuff because he'd been a knob. So that proves they've got to be pretty advanced, I mean not first Jaws movie advanced, but better than the other god knows how many other movies.
I wonder how the sperm whale would rate in terms of social structure and culture and whatnot had it's numbers not been hammered by whalers. Sperm whales have the largest brains of, well, anything known, but I guess not much is known about them other than the best recipes for how to cook them.
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Independent Vision said:Personally I have always viewed this animal as one of the more advanced species:
http://www.physorg.com/news187298115.html
I have always been extremely fascinated by the Orcinus orca.
Not only is the Orca whale one of the apex predators of the ocean, it also has complex social structures and the closest thing to culture you can come outside of the human world.
The complexity of their pods and the difference between the resident orca pods and the transient orca pods are amazing.
Their bio-sonar is highly sophisticated and certain groups can even single out their favorite types of fish over long distances.
The more I read about them, the more they continue to amaze me.
It allso isn't a whale, but a dolphin.
hackenslash said:Independent Vision said:Personally I have always viewed this animal as one of the more advanced species:
http://www.physorg.com/news187298115.html
I have always been extremely fascinated by the Orcinus orca.
Not only is the Orca whale one of the apex predators of the ocean, it also has complex social structures and the closest thing to culture you can come outside of the human world.
The complexity of their pods and the difference between the resident orca pods and the transient orca pods are amazing.
Their bio-sonar is highly sophisticated and certain groups can even single out their favorite types of fish over long distances.
The more I read about them, the more they continue to amaze me.
It allso isn't a whale, but a dolphin.
Other way round isn't it? I thought a dolphin is a sort of whale.