Lets get this ridiculus binfest over early this year please, I'm still gutted that The Whelk has never received its true status.
in so far:
Orca
Honey Badger
Cape Buffalo
Wolverine
Grizzly Bear
Crocodile
Hippo
human
brazilian wandering spider
immortal jellyfish
hyena
great white shark
bull shark
komodo dragon
cockroach
tasmanian devil
colossal squid
australian box jellyfish
african elephant
rhino
silverback gorilla
black mamba
whelk?!
needs seconding (don't just do it for the hell of it)
jaguar
tiger
giant centipede
mosquito
fangtooth fish
fossa
praying mantis
pitbull
blue-ringed octopus
sydney funnel web spider
cassowary
Not sure. According to that wiki page, you simply need to keep the victim breathing through his state of paralysis. If it was hard, wouldn't it just polish off the victim within seconds or perhaps minutes like a black mamba, rather than sit there like a ponce while your mate keeps you alive with the kiss of life until the ambulance arrives to put you on a machine until you're better again?
The Candiru
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Candiru_Pic1.jpg/250px-Candiru_Pic1.jpg
Looks innocent enough, the kind of fish you wouldn't mind keeping in a tank.
Until..
You learn more about it.
You research deeper and deeper.
The scarier and scarier this 15cm fish becomes.
According to local Brazillians who have had the misfortune of being struck by this creature, the pain is worse 'than walking across a bed of burning embers with a rusty 9 inch nail through each foot'
Its prefered method of attack?
Invade and parasitise the human uretha.
It has even be reported to be able to attack whilst you are not in the water. One kind fellow, Franco Berno Carlos, was relieving himself into the Amazon river, what was considered a safe practice. Then the unimagineable happened. The Candiru swam up his stream and into his uretha.
The poor 23 year old had to have a 2 hour surgical operation to remove the fishy from him, and is still scared of the river today.
http://www.darkbanquet.com/instance_image.php?image=600&cropper=1&x=0&y=0&width=810&height=1184&scale=0.42&time=56573&options=a
Poor Franco.
I have both swam and urinated in the Amazon River. Was I scared? No.
Would I urinate on the Honey Badgers turf? Not a chance. I don't fancy being CASTRATED.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you ... the mosquito.
The CASSOWARY has always split opinion in this competition, but as there are few feathered contenders so far, I'm going to nominate this giant mental turkey.
Anyone want to second me on this?
Does a mosquito count as its not a venom that kills people but a virus which i assume aren't allowed.
Besides i believe the tsetse fly is worse
Does a mosquito count as its not a venom that kills people but a virus which i assume aren't allowed.
Besides i believe the tsetse fly is worse
Is that a nomination for the Whelk? If so, I'll second it.
I have encountered many Whelks in the wild and not one ever ran away. They all stood their ground.
As for Honey Badgers, I have seen one, and the little coward was high-tailing it as soon as we appeared.