The 100 Most Fascinatingly Disgusting Members Of The Animal Kindom

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

oh my days @ the bear grylls eating the larvae video and that fucking toad is o_O

bear grylls thing is horrific, just horrific. caught me unawares watching the show for the first time, widescreen, up close. i nearly fucking died of disgust.

went to an aviary today and saw this plant and immediately was like DNW

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/P6065804.jpg

I just took another look at the surinam toad and my back feels like it's full of holes ugghhhhh

in that youtube clip above, i'm not sure which is supposed to be the "world's most disgusting animal," the rhino beetle or the guy who ate it raw.

Surinam toad is way the worst, reminds me of Gulliver's Travels and that description of the Brobdingnagian woman's breast tumour.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/Ptychozoon-little-flying-dragons_Ju.jpg

OMFG!!@#$%!!`11 In your hair! But amazing!

oh man i love flying/gliding animals

http://www.treehugger.com/tongue-parasite-in-fish.jpg

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04etta/background/isopods/media/parasitic_isopod_600.jpg

the first pic is kind cute, look at how it's snuggled in there like it's in bed. better than luke in the tauntaun tbh

I'm just a little isopod, tryna keep warm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QIgW639Oog

Not sure if this was posted here yet, but ew.

that would be a great candidate for the 'guile theme goes with everything' meme, right when he pulls out of his old shell

thinking of Ziggy Stardust actually

D-:

why why why.

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.

I totally feel this post. These are nasty, horrible things only made worse by the fact that if you catch them running across a sidewalk, you might well mistake them for a kitty cat. (Though if you get rabies, you're still kind of a moron -- you shouldn't be approaching feral kitty cats, either.)

The opossum is the one animal that I was familiar with in the south that I was surprised to see in the north. There's no armadillos up here, no marauding raccoons, certainly no deer. But there's still opossums.

Chicago is home to marauding raccoons. Ask Jesse.

upon further reflection, I have decided that the naked mole rat bears a striking resemblance to the Vietnamese summer roll

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Nacktmull.jpg

http://www.bookofyum.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/springroll1.jpg