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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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midsomermurderess · 23/06/2021 13:03

Dolphins, with their weird, creepy Jokeresque smiles.

Aposterhasnoname · 23/06/2021 13:04

Hammerhead bat

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toffeebutterpopcorn · 23/06/2021 13:04

Goats. And armadillos.

TulipWoodpecker · 23/06/2021 13:05

Giant civet...

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TheYearOfSmallThings · 23/06/2021 13:06

That Hammerhead bat looks like it has Darth Vader's head stuck on it's face!

TulipWoodpecker · 23/06/2021 13:07

Lamprey...

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Cassie71 · 23/06/2021 13:08

Swans.

TulipWoodpecker · 23/06/2021 13:08

@TheYearOfSmallThings

That Hammerhead bat looks like it has Darth Vader's head stuck on it's face!
😁😁yes!!
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Welshponyslave · 23/06/2021 13:20

Baboons. They would tear you limb from limb. And enjoy it.

SpikeDearheart · 23/06/2021 13:22

Star nosed mole

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HiHoSylvie · 23/06/2021 13:25

Anything that lives in the sea tbh. I find most sealife creepy Blush.

But particularly blob fish and angler fish.

poorfanjo · 23/06/2021 13:26

Moose! They're so so big!! Like 7 foot tall

poorfanjo · 23/06/2021 13:28

No photoshop

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purplesequins · 23/06/2021 13:29

possums
cameleons

bananamonkey · 23/06/2021 13:29

Dolphins. Creepy AF. Plus have you seen that episode of The Simpsons?

OhRene · 23/06/2021 13:30

Lampreys are a horror show. In fact, I'm pretty sure the alien monsters in a Stephen King movie were based on lampreys and attacked from the toilet bowl

SpikeDearheart · 23/06/2021 13:30

Naked mole rat - looks like a penis with teeth, poor thing.

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GlumyGloomer · 23/06/2021 13:37

Shoebilled storks will possibly be showing up in my nightmares now.
Hyenas. Always thought of them as small until I saw a photo of a man with one on a lead, which I momentarily mistook for a dog, only huge and viscious looking. Never looked at them the same way again.
Absolutely anything with it's knees higher than it's head.

AsanteSana · 23/06/2021 13:37

Penis fish and someone beat me to Naked Mole Rat

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 23/06/2021 13:38

Eels and lampreys.

I’m terrified of them. Even writing it makes me feel ill.

Smolgoose · 23/06/2021 13:46

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.

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Pricklypear12 · 23/06/2021 13:50

Frilled shark which has the look of a Chinese dragon

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megletthesecond · 23/06/2021 13:51

Herons.

woodhill · 23/06/2021 13:51

Squid and Octopus

vampirethriller · 23/06/2021 13:53

I really don't like kangaroos, but I love those storks and bats.