Thread: What is your favorite animal? (new version)

Since when do wolves kill for sport? I thought it was the complete opposite, especially considering how very low the probability of a single hunt ending up in a kill is.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Since when do wolves kill for sport? I thought it was the complete opposite, especially considering how very low the probability of a single hunt ending up in a kill is.

really? I've always heard that, from news reports to stories of people who moved to my town from Alaska and tell about seeing packs of wolves killing deer and just leaving it (which, yes, I have had a friend tell me stories of when he lived in Alaska and was out hunting and saw it happen). But I guess I couldn't be sure since I haven't actually witnessed it myself... I just always thought that's what they did

That's interesting, I haven't heard that. But then again I suppose it heavily depends on the availability of food in any particular area. I just remember seeing a special by David Attenborough on various animals and their hunting techniques and success rates. As I recall wolves had pretty much the lowest success rate... or at least one of the lowest, alongside the cheetah and stuff like that.

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Favorites:

Bats:



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Orangutans:








Least favorites:

Squash bugs--because they want to kill my pumpkins.






Also least favorites: anything parasitic


I actually have more favorites...and least favorites. But these are the ones that come to mind now.

Originally Posted by peacock486

Anyway, what is your favorite animal

What a majestic expression.


Damn, look at those teeth!


Aww… a cub!

Snow leopards ftw!

Originally Posted by peacock486

and what is your LEAST favorite animal?

The tapeworm. Eughh. And to think that that thing could be inside of
you right now, slowly draining you of your nutrients…