# Which animals are evil, which animals are good? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230 "2005-06-14T16:13:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/61 "2005-06-14T23:40:50Z")
Good animals-all except my next door neighbor’s insane Siamese cat. Good people-all except clowns. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/62 "2005-06-15T00:07:30Z")
Okay, here’s a tough one: Ostriches. Good or evil? They’re a bird, which counts on the good side. But they’re awfully damn cranky and can kill a dude with a single gut-gouging kick. Does cranky by itself tip over to the evil side? I think we can agree wolverines are evil. And yet they’re just so goofy-lookin’. So: Ostriches? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/63 "2005-06-15T00:24:09Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Evil: > \ > Those worms that cache their eggs outside your anus > \ I believe those are pinworms. > [@](#): > > Good: > > Hummingbirds > \ I have heard that hummingbirds are extremely aggressive little fellows, what with their caffeine-achiever metabolisms. **CateAyo** , I dreamt once that a huge eagle came down and ate out of my hand. A Native Canadian friend thought that was a very powerful dream. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/64 "2005-06-15T01:11:58Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Okay, here’s a tough one: > > Ostriches. Good or evil? > > They’re a bird, which counts on the good side. > > But they’re awfully damn cranky and can kill a dude with a single gut-gouging kick. Does cranky by itself tip over to the evil side? I think we can agree wolverines are evil. > > And yet they’re just so goofy-lookin’. > > So: Ostriches? I would have to say the laying of an egg that can feed 27 people would tip them over into the good category. And the guy who got killed with a single guy gouging kick was probably asking for it. Odin’s impression of guy killed by ostrich: Ooo, look at the birdy, but the birdy can’t fly, how come you’re not up in the air with all your birdy friends? OOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/65 "2005-06-15T01:28:48Z")
**CateAyo** , I dreamt once that a huge eagle came down and ate out of my hand. A Native Canadian friend thought that was a very powerful dream. [/QUOTE] Yes I would interpret as a very clear and powerful between you and whatever spirituality you believe in. Many of us believe that when we sleep, we commune with the spirit world. forgive the hijack, please ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/66 "2005-06-15T01:54:31Z")
The pink fairy armadillo is good. Chickens are evil. Oh, of course slugs are evil, but snails are good. Many extinct animals are are also either evil or good. Good: Wooly Mammoth Glyptodon Ramapithecus Triceratops Stegosaurus Styracosaurus Ichthyostega Diplodocus Alticamelus Indricotherium Eohippus Megaceros (Irish Elk) Hyracodon (running rhinoceros) Miacis Hemicyon Evil: Velociraptor Dimetrodon Archeopteryx (nasty little creatures) Protoceratops (for framing Oviraptor) Icthyosaurs Pterodactyls Iguanadon (Don’t let the herbivory fool you. Look into his soul. Evil) Wooly Rhinos Sabre-tooth cats Andrewsarchus Uintatherium Necrolestes (C’mon…the name alone tells you he’s evil!) Thylacoleo Dinohyus Also, all critters from the Burgess Shale are pure evil. We dodged a bullet when they went extinct in the PreCambrian, folks. Wiwaxia? Hallicigenia? Opabinia? Anomalocaris? We’re talking Servitors of Cthulhu level evil. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/67 "2005-06-15T02:31:03Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > but Squirrels are definitly evil. Yes! Yes! Squirrels are evil, I tells you, eeeeeevil! They spend all their time up in the trees, plotting how to take over the world. And digging up my plants. But they did bring me a little green plastic bucket and a Christmas cactus, so maybe they’re not all bad. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/68 "2005-06-15T03:48:40Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > The pink fairy armadillo is good. Chickens are evil. > \ Ooh, chickens - I forgot chickens, another animal that is evil but too stupid to know it. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/69 "2005-06-15T04:33:14Z")
Ostriches are definitely evil. I’ve met some and bleh, just awful and mean and stupid and too big. Chickens the same, but smaller. I consider it my duty to eat as much chicken as possible. Plus, hey! I live in the desert and I’m not evil (much). Desert animals are just mis-understood. They’ve got to be tough, no nonsense types, because you get no second chances in the desert baby. A single exception; tarantula wasps are evil, laying eggs in the poor fuzzy lil’ tarantula. Ladybugs bite, so evil. Kangaroos are just big bullies. Camels! How could I have forgotten camels? Smelly, lazy, mean, spitty, obstinate, disgusting, horrid things. While wolverines are most assuredly evil, I kind of admire their eviltude. Nanny goats are good. Mourning doves are good. Elephants are very very good. Sea horses are a delight. Burros I like. Bats are very nice fellows, eating nasty bugs for our lounging pleasure. Cheetas good. Penguins I don’t trust. I believe they are secretly plotting to take over the world. ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/70 "2005-06-15T04:42:41Z")
Manatees are most definitely good. ---
**Author:** ![klintypooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3da27b/32.png) [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/71 "2005-06-15T11:07:11Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > The Rats of NIMH are the only good rats in the history of the universe. Every other rat is completely, utterly, and unashamedly evil. > > Rabbits are good though. And don’t even try to bring up General Woundwort. He was an abberation, a very unrabbit-like rabbit. Other rabbits are good. Splinter? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/72 "2005-06-15T12:50:31Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > I believe those are pinworms. I keep hoping someone is going to tell me “Haha, just kidding, they don’t really exist.” Domesticated chickens might be evil, but the Atwater’s Prairie Chicken is a good egg. The hummingbirds in our yard are agressive but I can’t fault something that small that crossed the Gulf of Mexico without refuling for protecting it’s food source, plus they’re just so darn entertaining… zzzzzzzZZZZZZZOOOOOoooommmmm. Evil: Fer de lance Gabon Viper Mamba Coachwhip Vulture Camel Good: Sea snakes Osprey Frogs Horny toad Musk Ox ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/73 "2005-06-15T13:21:54Z")
Evil: Donkeys Good: Elephants. Runs for the hills . . . 😃😃😃😃😉😉 ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/74 "2005-06-15T13:31:31Z")
Evil: Cats See [My Cat Hates You](http://www.mycathatesyou.com/cats) if you need any proof at all. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/75 "2005-06-15T14:26:45Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > Evil - Wolves, Ravens, Pythons, Vipers, Tigers, Octopuses, Coyotes, Eels > > Good - Goats, Elephants, Dogs (except for German Shephards and Pit Bulls), Lions, Owls, Whales, Bears (except Grizzlys), Rabbits, Roadrunners, Pigs (except Wild Boars), Sheep This post is soooo wrong. The wrong wrongness of the wronging just screams out the wrongerosity of this post. Obviously the poster was somehow possessed by one of the evil animals _coughRoadrunnercough_ and forced to write out this wrong. Well, let me right this wrong! \*\*Good \*\* - Wolves, Tigers, **Coyotes** , Dogs (except for Chihuahuas and Chow Chows), Lions, Owls, Whales, Debateable: Ravens (fellow trickster, can’t be all bad), Elephants (huge stomping feet, there’s some evilness there), Sheep (they wear wool all the time, that must make them a little evil), Rabbits (I think they’re up to something), Octopuses (mmm … calamari) **Evil** - Goats, Bears (except Black bears and Yogi bears - unless you are pick-a-nicking), **Roadrunners** , Pigs, Eels, Pythons, Vipers [/QUOTE] That’s better. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/76 "2005-06-15T14:34:59Z")
EVIL: Fire ants are the most evil robotonic killing machine ever devised by a demented creator. Roaches are pretty bad, too, especially two-inch-long flying palmetto bugs. Liver flukes are evil. And as one who’s had them infesting his house, I can say that squirrels are categorically evil. And hard to get rid of. Mosquitos Aphids are up to something. GOOD: Horses Lightning bugs Most birds, especially mockingbirds, robins, and wrens Dogs Wolves Cats Bears (really they’re evil, but who doesn’t like bears?) ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/77 "2005-06-15T16:41:58Z")
> [@kelly5078](#): > > …but who doesn’t like bears?) I’m not much of a fan of bears. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/78 "2005-06-15T17:15:52Z")
Bears are good. Ligers are good. I guess if tigers and ligers are good, that probably implies that lions are good, unless goodness is a dominant trait. (Do you think it’s dominant or recessive?) Horses and mules are good. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/79 "2005-06-15T17:22:11Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > I have heard that hummingbirds are extremely aggressive little fellows, what with their caffeine-achiever metabolisms. Hummingbirds appear good only because they’re so small. Take it from me, hey are in reality black-hearted evil little bastards, every one of them. Colibri, professional trochilidologist. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230/80 "2005-06-15T17:35:52Z")
> [@kelly5078](#): > > EVIL: > Fire ants are the most evil robotonic killing machine ever devised by a demented creator. A word of advice: If you have to PT in Florida, always do your situps on concrete. Sure the ground looks softer, and more comfortable, but it’s hard to spot them fire ant hills in the dark. Especially without one’s glasses on. Evil animals: Wolverines Camels Fire Ants Small yippy things that think they’re dogs, but aren’t really. Monkeys (In fact I’m tempted to class all primates as evil, but that’s not fair to gorillas.) Good animals: Mules Bears (Especially if they’re friendly drunks. 500 lbs of mean drunk bear can be a problem, I’ll admit.) Dogs, wolves and coyotes. (with the exception for small yippy things) Too dumb to be classified as good or evil: Cows Chicken Sheep Cows (Yes, they’re so dumb they’re on the list twice :D) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-animals-are-evil-which-animals-are-good/308230.md?page=5)