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Animals that are...creepy...

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TulipWoodpecker · 23/06/2021 12:39

Disclaimer - I love animals and im fascinated by them! But truly some have an aura of menace about them...
To start, I give you the Shoebill Stork. Not dangerous or anything but...disconcerting.



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JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 24/06/2021 10:46

@DentonsFringeArnottsWaistcoat

Black Rain Frog. Like an avocado with a face.
This is brilliant! Grin
PompomDahlia · 24/06/2021 10:30

Those worms that live under the sea bed. Also urchins and spiky anemones. Triggerfish with bitey teeth are scary too.

I hate lots of monkeys - too human looking with their hands and mannerisms.

I hate the pointy face dogs - they look like rough men you’d be scared to walk past outside a pub.

Silvercatowner · 24/06/2021 10:06

Cows. I was fine with them until I went on a walk and encountered a herd of them - THANK GOD they were on the other side of the fence to the footpath. The whole herd followed us the length of the field (long field) staring at silently the whole way. I have a feeling that had the fence not been there we wouldn't've survived...

aggathapanthus · 24/06/2021 09:51

Beagles, something very alarming about them.

0ntheg0again · 24/06/2021 09:49

Muntjac deer, just the weirdest looking deer ever, looks like a pig in deer shape

FrangipaniBlue · 24/06/2021 09:43

The spider with its babies on its back, the road with the holes and that bloody mole!!

WTAfuckityF????

SwanShaped · 24/06/2021 09:38

I’m quite disturbed by the toad. I have a phobia of tiny things in tiny holes. Well, a very strong revulsion anyway. And that’s the worst the I’ve seen.

FrangipaniBlue · 24/06/2021 09:31

@Smolgoose

Kangaroos that look like big muscly men are disturbing.

I'm mind own by the moose, I thought they were around the size of a red deer.

Does the poster who mentioned dogs with stretched faces mean a bull terrier? Every bull terrier i've met has been lovely, but the poor things look like they should be cockney gangsters, running a protection racket and talking about what nice young lads the krays were whilst chainsmoking. Poor dogs.

As the owner of one of these dogs this description proper made me lol Grin

I can attest they are big softies, in fact mine is often referred to by DS as "a totally wet wipe" and apparently that's all my fault for treating him like a baby Hmm

NarcissaMalfoysManicure · 24/06/2021 09:30

I cannot and will not stand for pointy-dog hate, they are the great types of dog Grin

I hate, hate, hate mola, aka ocean sunfish. They're abnormally big.

GrouchyKiwi · 24/06/2021 09:21

The pootoo bird looks like it has been taxidermized while still alive.

Kate3150 · 24/06/2021 08:26

🤣🤣🤣 I wish I could unsee the Potoo bird but it’s just one of the scariest things I’ve laid my eyes on x

ImprobablePuffin · 24/06/2021 08:19

Holy cow! That Potoo bird is horrific!

So of course I had a google and it got worse.

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ImprobablePuffin · 24/06/2021 08:17

@IndecentCakes

I hate all monkeys. Sorry, monkeys. Chimpanzees are the most horrifying. I have read too many stories of people, who usually live in the USA, getting seriously attacked by this animal kept as a pet and treated like a child.
This says way more about the dicks that kept him than anything else.
cricketmum84 · 24/06/2021 07:51

The whale thing is almost haunting 😳

Poorlykitten · 24/06/2021 07:45

This!

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TulipWoodpecker · 24/06/2021 07:25

@Kate3150

OMG something called a Potoo bird, i still can’t get the image of it out of my head lol
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Kate3150 · 24/06/2021 07:04

OMG something called a Potoo bird, i still can’t get the image of it out of my head lol

StartupRepair · 24/06/2021 05:35

I learned today that sperm whales sleep vertically. Creepy and kind of beautiful.

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Soubriquet · 24/06/2021 05:19

@DentonsFringeArnottsWaistcoat

Blobfish. Bluergh!!!
That is actually a dead blobfish

They don’t look like that when they are alive and in their actual environment

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TulipWoodpecker · 24/06/2021 04:55

@GrouchyKiwi

Orangutans, but mostly because they eat baby lorises, which WHAT. I thought they were herbivores.

Those maned wolves just look so wrong.

But my least favourite (apart from spiders) is the jerboa. It looks incomplete.

Jerboa! It's been short-changed in the limb department somehow...
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TulipWoodpecker · 24/06/2021 04:51

@LunaTheTuna

I give you the coconut crab....
Flipping heck.
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TulipWoodpecker · 24/06/2021 04:50

@LunaNorth

This thread has me like this GrinEnvyShockConfused
Yes!!!!!!
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IndecentCakes · 24/06/2021 02:39

I hate all monkeys. Sorry, monkeys. Chimpanzees are the most horrifying. I have read too many stories of people, who usually live in the USA, getting seriously attacked by this animal kept as a pet and treated like a child.

millerpie · 24/06/2021 01:57

Aww I love shoebill storks. Komodo dragons are my worst nightmare.

PleaseReferToMeAsBritneySpears · 24/06/2021 01:24

I recently stumbled across a photo of the inside of a turtle's mouth. Terrifying.

Trumps all my other fears, rational or otherwise. Maggots, foxes, eels, bull terriers, and I had to Google that shoebill bird thing cos it looks like some hybrid fictional animal!

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