I’m just gonna stick up for the Surinam toad again,because I observed one, as in my above post: yep, looks kinda icky, but it’s a great survival strategy. Mom looks like hell after the babies hatch;all popped open and raggy looking. But, each little baby frog (Toad is a misnomer) is a perfect little being looking like it’s parent. andCute*!
For evolutionary sake, this is a unique strategy for frogs. The eggs are not left into the environment willy-nilly, but are well-esconced with the parent, and well-protected.
To me , that’s amazing and beautiful, and smart, so no heebee-jeebies. It is remarkable that a particulau\r creature would have more damage to body in the course of reproduction that is the norm for similar species.
Hi elelle! Listen, we should thank gigi for starting this thread. My first thoughts were, sure, this topic is an excellent diet aid, but will it solve anything. Lo and behold, this very thread has provided the answer to one of life’s greatest mysteries.
What conclusion have we drawn? The difference between little girls and little boys is this: little girls *instinctively know * that nothing good can come from a putrid and distended decomposing cow.
Beau] since at this point we are are the gals speaking up for normal putridity: I hear ya. BUT; even as a wee lass,well, about eleven years old, I would have prolly stood up on the bank while my brother (who would always do that, there’s me learning), and it certainly would have been a mess, with me explaining to Mom why it wasn’t SO Bad.
I’m going to add the filthy vermin Dogfish or Bowfin. God I hate them. They can still be alive the next day after somebody leaves one on the land, and they make this nasty loud bark when you get close making you jump high into the air, which can be a problem near water. They have sharp teeth and a scaleless head. Please don’t leave them on the river or lake bank alive for me to stumble apon. Please don’t leave rotting carp where people fish either. Remember walking to the fishing spot and steping on the 10 to 20 pound rotten carp, to squosh the guts out it’s ass hole. It’s like a giant tube of tooth paste being stepped on, only it’s rotten carp inards witch are a stinky gray brown goo. God it’s gross. Why did I have to remember that. Feed the racoons away from the fishing area please.
I didn’t find a picture of a carp after having the guts squashed out. I thought everything was on the internet. Give it time. There’s your next project for You Tube kids.
Are you sure we’re talking about the same person. The show I watched was definitly called “Human Wildlife: The Life that Lives on Us” and this woman had only holes in one patch on her foot just in front of the ankle. And she wasn’t happy about the worms at all. And the gel was put on specifically to sufficate them to death so that they could be extracted.
I’m not going to link to them, but I’ve recently witnessed two of the most disgusting nature clips I’ve ever scene.
If you go to liveleak and search for “hyena” there’s a clip from a nature preserve in Africa. The shot is of a dead giraffe, the carcass of which has bloated and split open and is now covered in filth and flies. And right there in the middle is a hyena, sitting inside the giraffe! It’s just rolling around, occasionally licking at the walls, and just generally looking like it’s found hyena heaven.
If you do a search for “horse”, one of the clips is of a horse having an abscess in its leg drained. It sprays out enough pus to fill a gallon jug and still keeps on gushing.
For me, what totally freaks me out is deformed animals. You know, like the ones with too many legs or heads, or worse: photos I’ve seen of a kitten and a pig, each with 2 faces, sharing an eye. I can’t deal with that. I’m sure I could provide a link; if you want to look for it, go right ahead.
Or seriously wounded animals that aren’t quite dead yet. Last summer a huge bird flew into our house. Its head had split open, and one wing was practically off. I couldn’t stand hearing it flapping around. I think it was a few days before I cautiously ventured out back to investigate. And of course I had to poke it with a stick (the longest one I could find) to make sure it was dead, the picked it up with the stick and dumped it behind the garage. I’ll never go back there.
Re: horses with blue eyes; kind of cool, but worst was the albino horse at my old school. Snowy had blood red eyes and was a bit hot blooded and very skittish. A wild eyed, red eyed horse always makes me think ‘DEMON!!!’
And I echo you with the face’s sentiment; why did I enter this thread? WHY?
Ever seen a bird of prey dipping its beak into a struggling pre-expiration victim?
I have. Big hawk. Took a pigeon out of the air, and chose my back yard to enjoy the meal. Pinned it to the turf and scooped at the skyrat’s torso while one barely-free wing twitched and flapped.
I went to get my camera but the hawk absconded with its kill before I could arrange a close-up.
Kind of neat, from an urban wildlife perspective, but imagining the event from the point of view of the pigeon in its last few moments is more than a bit oogifying.
Dung Beetle, pass the eggs. I love those things. I could eat them while reading this thread. I could eat them while looking at pictures from this thread. I could eat those eggs out of a carcass. I could eat Cadbury eggs off of a surinam toad’s back.
Oh God, I just remembered another awful nature show clip. It was a young giraffe completely covered in HUGE ASS ticks. HUGE. He was staggering around from losing so much blood to them. I had to change the channel, I couldn’t handle watching it.
