The 100 Most Fascinatingly Disgusting Members Of The Animal Kindom

he's a one-frog obesity epidemic!!!

i respect any animal whose eyebrows form the upper boundary of its head

Hagfish enters through the anus.

animals are fuckin disgusting, thank you all

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/images/060217_kiwi.jpg

spiderbabybackbabybackbabyback

― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:00 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/bxd/images/doggie.jpg

Do not be fooled, people. These things EAT THEIR OWN POO.

I waitered at a fine dining restaurant in Chicago in a building in which a major US advertising firm is based. In one of the dining areas they would display enormous prints of ads produced by that firm. For months, there was a wall-sized print of a n@ked m0le r@t for an IL zoo (I think?) above the tables of this expensive seafood restaurant.

Oh dear god, why.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/leaftailedgekko.jpg
leaf tailed gekko!

OMFG

I am full of so many conflicting feelings about this animal. Do I want to run away from it? Or do I want to hang out and party with it?

hang around long enough to get the number of it's dealer, then gtfo while you still can i think

rogue apostrophe's are out to g'et me

then gtfogtfkko while you still can i think

scary!

The Madagascar cockroach has become a popular pet because of its hissing sound, large size, and appearance. Their nickname, "hissing cockroach", is due to their ability to force air through the breathing pores (spiracles) found on their abdomen. The Madagascar hissing cockroach is believed to be the only insect that can growl in this exact manner,[1] as most insects that make a "hissing" sound do so by rubbing together various body parts

Coconut crab!

This hermit crab, with its intimidating size and strength, has a special position in the culture of many human societies which share its range. The coconut crab is admired for its strength, and it is said that villagers use this animal to guard their coconut plantations. The coconut crab, especially if it is not yet fully grown, is also sold as a pet, for example, in Tokyo.[35] The cage must be strong enough that the animal cannot use its powerful claws to escape. Should a coconut crab pinch a person, it will not only cause pain, but is unlikely to release its grip.

Thomas Hale Streets reports the following trick, used by Micronesians of the Line Islands, to get a coconut crab to loosen its grip: It may be interesting to know that in such a dilemma a gentle titillation of the under soft parts of the body with any light material will cause the crab to lose its hold.

They're edible!

Thomas Hale Streets had lots of fun using gentle titillation of his under soft parts.

taking one for the team, I delved deep into youtube to bring you back video of a madagascar hissing cockroach giving birth, now excuse me while I search for the melon scooper

hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhOGQINu0lk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB_COSUXMw

Awesome, nobody got to my favorite yet! I wrote a whole college term paper on the aye-aye.

http://missbakersbiologyclasswiki.wikispaces.com/file/view/aye_aye.jpg/109676359/aye_aye.jpg

That's not a real animal. That is a character from the Dark Crystal.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/images/050419_aye-aye.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JWRpPBPihvQ/SbDF2jvchVI/AAAAAAAAAKU/rPQWPx9LF4Y/s400/dark-crystal-2.jpg

HAHA!

The Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker. It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unusual method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its elongated middle finger to pull the grubs out.

Many Malagasy natives think they are devil-creatures, and beat them to death on sight.

http://fauxpopuli.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/mitch-mcconnell-09081.jpg

I keep meaning to tell you, I almost took "Here is a tasty coconut, sorry for my earlier harshness" as MY screen name. Yay Skot's kid!

it's the kind of thing I can imagine God saying

http://blog.hmns.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/redhead1-resize.jpeg

Two nights ago I was camping, and I had some Jealousy-influenced dream about smashing giant centipedes. An hour after waking up, I ran into one of these guys, the Giant Desert Centipede aka the Giant Sonoran Centipede. It was at least 6" (15 cm) long.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2r52mEaIE1qbrpn4o1_400.jpg

Fangtooth.

just about anything found in the deepest levels of the sea should qualify.

I beg to differ!

http://awakeningwomen.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/dumbo-octopus.jpg

its a real life pokemans

i was about to say the same, latebloomer -- most of the deep-sea creatures i've seen are nowhere near that pokemon-esque, though.

not to mention that a real-life Pokemon IS kinda creepy (even if not really disgusting).

What kind of noise do you think Dumbo Octopus babby makes? ^_^

Rhino beetle (wait for it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8wJpr3whnY

I always thought that the termite queen was puke-inducing.

http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ants/images/quee-06termitequeen-l.jpg

I have to lodge my vote for the humble possum. Not as disgusting as others on this thread but, ugh god i hate these things so so much. Just GIS'ing this pic gave me the heeb

http://areyouhappyatwork.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/possum.jpg

Dracula Minnow!

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/03/danionella_dracula/danionella.jpeg

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/03/danionella_dracula/danionella.jpeg

okay dracula minnow get out of my head

Dracula minnow doesn't look too bad when it's a regualr photo:

http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/7-dracula-fish.jpg

I always thought that the termite queen was puke-inducing.

Then you'll like this info even more: The African ones are supposed to be really tasty when baked. (If you don't have any moral qualms about destroying a nest that's prolly been around for 30-40 years, that is. )

Sloths feel left out, start eating human poop

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8659000/8659239.stm

Rhinoceros beetles are also one of the strongest animals on the planet in relation to their own size. They can also survive Nuclear warfare.

<img src=http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47770000/jpg/_47770279_sloth01comp.jpg>;

I haven't read the article yet, but I love this picture.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47770000/jpg/_47770279_sloth01comp.jpg

It's like he's just chilling!

The researchers suspect many individual sloths visited the latrines: on one occasion a mother and baby visited.

in a weird way, this is adorable.

So I happened upon this little thing about angler fish and thought of this thread:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/angler

And here's the pic Leeee posted upthread again, because it had an extra character in and didn't load on-thread for me:
http://scribalterror.blogs.com/scribal_terror/images/2007/06/17/angler_fish.jpg