***world's hardest creature competition- round 1, group a

[turienzo's lovechild]

Cape Buffalo

Crocodile

Great White Shark

Human

Mongoose

Praying Mantis

Gorilla

Colossal Squid

 

[Simster]

Two to go through?

Some big guns come up against each other here.
Crocs have roamed the planet for 250 MILLION YEARS
Sharks have been around for 400 MILLION YEARS.
Squid have been around for 650 MILLION YEARS.

You don't get to last that long without some degree of HARDNESS.

 

[Tooting Gull]

This competition once again throws up, quite literally, a group of death.

 

[Aristotle]

Just to be clear, is it two go through from each group?

 

[Badger]

For me it's the croc, perhaps because I've seen them close up. Any animal that can stop it's heart so it's almost dead, waiting for the right moment to POUNCE is hard in my book.

 

[strings]

Colossal squid was robbed last year. It has been around for 650 million years, yet a fully grown adult has never been caught alive, because they swim so deep.

HARD

 

[Simster]

For me it's the croc, perhaps because I've seen them close up. Any animal that can stop it's heart so it's almost dead, waiting for the right moment to POUNCE is hard in my book.

When in Oz, I was privileged to witness two crocs fighting over territory in a North Queensland creek. We were a fair distance away but the power exhibited was quite frightening. The guide told us that one of the crocs on show had won a fatal battle with a tiger shark the previous month. Comfortably.

Once again, an example of it's hardness. As you know, I'm a massive fan of sharks in general, but crocs are first class competitors here.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Colossal squid was robbed last year. It has been around for 650 million years, yet a fully grown adult has never been caught alive, because they swim so deep.

HARD

Mmmmm! Calamari

 

[MattBackHome]

I would say Gorilla but for the fact that they are so sedate most of the time. My vote goes to the Praying Mantis – a simply EVIL animal - by an antennae from the Croc.

 

[Pantani]

I went Croc, they will get to the semis no problem. Why have you hidden the voting results? Trying to stop the blatant electioneering of previous years? Personally I would have brought in some UN observers to ensure that this is a fair vote.

 

[Seasidesage]

Human all the way. I've never seen Collossal Squid or Crocs take a firm to Millwall...two bob the pair of em

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

just to clarify- top FOUR go through

 

[Munkfish]

Colossal Squid - that is one double hard bastard. its beak is scarey as f***. i have no doubt a great white shark would shit its pants if it came head to head.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

the current scores are:

14
12
9
9
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7
6
4
2

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Obviously humans because we invented every form of blowing shit up to kill eachother, and inadvertently endangered every living creature on the Earth with our filthy pollution.>>?

 

[SeagullSongs]

The praying mantis is almost literally a mindless killer.
The females even eat the male's head after copulation. Hard bitch.

 

[Woodchip]

Obviously humans because we invented every form of blowing shit up to kill eachother, and inadvertently endangered every living creature on the Earth with our filthy pollution.>>?

Mostly by accident though.

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Mostly by accident though.

True....we didn't mean it..honest.

I dread to think what a honey badger could do 'by accident' if it had oppose-able thumbs and a penchant for dominating every environment on Earth.

 

[Colossal Squid]

Squid have been around for 650 MILLION YEARS.

You don't get to last that long without some degree of HARDNESS.

Colossal squid was robbed last year. It has been around for 650 million years, yet a fully grown adult has never been caught alive, because they swim so deep.

HARD

Colossal Squid - that is one double hard bastard. its beak is scarey as f***. i have no doubt a great white shark would shit its pants if it came head to head.

DAMN straight.

Vote SQUID

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i think part of the squids charm is in its MYSTERY

we know so little about it but it seems to be built by the tears of children and feasts on the rotting carcasses of kittens, unicorns and rainbows....it's probably the thing that stops satan from rising from hell...he catches a glimpse of the tentacled nightmare merchant and thinks "f*** that, god can just have this one"