# When nature grosses you out

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 12, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612 "2007-03-12T15:48:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/201 "2007-03-27T01:50:54Z")

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[QUOTE=elfkin477]  
I started to watch this video of a [baby sloth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kTkOgHO4pA&NR), and had to stop. It’s unbearably creepy. Your mind ought not summon up memories of the weird little “kids” in Apex Twin’s [Come To Daddy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Az_7U0-cK0) video while viewing a baby animal, but it does. it does!  
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The Aphex Twin stuff is the stuff of nightmares, but I wasn’t bothered at all by the baby sloth!

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**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/202 "2007-03-27T02:24:03Z")

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I will never, ever forget the sight of **Mama Tiger** _screaming and running in circles_ in a complete panic once because she found a leech on her leg. I guess that’s what you get for doing yardwork in south Louisiana.

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**Author:** ![Beaucarnea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Beaucarnea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beaucarnea)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/203 "2007-03-27T02:37:20Z")

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Oh, I was screaming all right while that leech was … reaching … for me. But I still picked up it. And I’ll pick the next one up, too.

Anyone remember a very old Discovery channel type program which showed this: monkey lifts up rock, looks underneath, spies snake, drops rock and faints dead away. Monkey revives, shakily stands back up, returns to the rock, lifts it up, spies the same snake a second time then faints dead away… again? That’s me. I am convinced that exposure to something which startles or disgusts me will lessen its power over me.

I have nearly conquered the leech thing. At this point the only thing left on the planet that frightens me walks on two legs. Hand me the net, the noose, or the snare, boys- I’m goin’ in.

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