Paraponera clavata 'the Bullet Ant'... owner of the most painful sting on the planet.
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World's Hardest Creature X: NOMINATIONS thread
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Withdean11
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Tarantula Hawk - The wasp that kills tarantulas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150109-the-wasp-that-scares-tarantulas
The pain inflicted by a tarantula hawk’s sting has been rated by Dr Schmidt as one of the worst in the insect world. He created the Schmidt sting pain index as a pain scale of all insect stings.
“A sting feels like a lightning bolt struck the spot; the pain is beyond imagination,” he says.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150109-the-wasp-that-scares-tarantulas
The pain inflicted by a tarantula hawk’s sting has been rated by Dr Schmidt as one of the worst in the insect world. He created the Schmidt sting pain index as a pain scale of all insect stings.
“A sting feels like a lightning bolt struck the spot; the pain is beyond imagination,” he says.
Withdean11
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Seconded
Hunt in packs, yet still outsmarted and outrun by a BABY lizard fresh out of the egg. Relegation fodder.
Paul Reids Sock
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Oh come on!
How can this ant be seconded within 9 minutes for a sting - that doesn't make him hard
My ant is a psycho
Yep. However, they look incredibly evil/hard, and that's at least 75% of the task done right there...
Just because [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] was terrified........?
Emperor Penguin....
The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica. The male and female are similar in plumage and size, reaching 122 cm (48 in) in height and weighing from 22 to 45 kg (49 to 99 lb). The dorsal side and head are black and sharply delineated from the white belly, pale-yellow breast and bright-yellow ear patches. Like all penguins it is flightless, with a streamlined body, and wings stiffened and flattened into flippers for a marine habitat.
Its diet consists primarily of fish, but can also include crustaceans, such as krill, and cephalopods, such as squid. In hunting, the species can remain submerged up to 18 minutes, diving to a depth of 535 m (1,755 ft). It has several adaptations to facilitate this, including an unusually structured haemoglobin to allow it to function at low oxygen levels, solid bones to reduce barotrauma, and the ability to reduce its metabolism and shut down non-essential organ functions.
The only penguin species that breeds during the Antarctic winter, emperor penguins trek 50–120 km (31–75 mi) over the ice to breeding colonies which may include thousands of individuals. The female lays a single egg, which is incubated by the male while the female returns to the sea to feed; parents subsequently take turns foraging at sea and caring for their chick in the colony. The lifespan is typically 20 years in the wild, although observations suggest that some individuals may live to 50 years of age.
The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica. The male and female are similar in plumage and size, reaching 122 cm (48 in) in height and weighing from 22 to 45 kg (49 to 99 lb). The dorsal side and head are black and sharply delineated from the white belly, pale-yellow breast and bright-yellow ear patches. Like all penguins it is flightless, with a streamlined body, and wings stiffened and flattened into flippers for a marine habitat.
Its diet consists primarily of fish, but can also include crustaceans, such as krill, and cephalopods, such as squid. In hunting, the species can remain submerged up to 18 minutes, diving to a depth of 535 m (1,755 ft). It has several adaptations to facilitate this, including an unusually structured haemoglobin to allow it to function at low oxygen levels, solid bones to reduce barotrauma, and the ability to reduce its metabolism and shut down non-essential organ functions.
The only penguin species that breeds during the Antarctic winter, emperor penguins trek 50–120 km (31–75 mi) over the ice to breeding colonies which may include thousands of individuals. The female lays a single egg, which is incubated by the male while the female returns to the sea to feed; parents subsequently take turns foraging at sea and caring for their chick in the colony. The lifespan is typically 20 years in the wild, although observations suggest that some individuals may live to 50 years of age.
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Seconded for the baby wasp being proper hard too. Basically torturing and murdering the tarantula from the inside......
Grim!
The Malayan Sun Bear. Great effort last year and an outside bet to take the anniversary title.
Watch this double-hard psycho ****nut deal with some mob handed tigers (the bengal type) who wrongly decided to **** about on his manor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzBsjrvrQk
Watch this double-hard psycho ****nut deal with some mob handed tigers (the bengal type) who wrongly decided to **** about on his manor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzBsjrvrQk
Huh? I thought they looked terrifying as buggery, but no way are they WHC, imo...
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
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I'll nominate the Black Mamba & second the Cassowary
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Racer snakes are pussies - FACT
Marty McFly
Seagulls Over Canada
Seconded!
Paul Reids Sock
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Paul Reids Sock
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sneaky...
The naked mole rat is only small, blind and lives underground. However it has teeth on the outside of its face and looks seriously ugly and evil. The main reasons I'm nominating are I is that for it's size it's one of the longest living creatures and can live up to 31 years. More incredibly they don't get cancer!