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[Misc] World's Hardest Creature XI: Nominations
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My head hurts. If only we had a zoologist on hand to make a ruling.
What do you reckon KG? Help!
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Good morning all. And isn't it a lovely morning. For some reason I seem to have woken up in a particularly good mood.
Nominations close at midnight tonight so it's your last day to get those nominations in. If 40 creatures are not seconded I shall hold a draw for the remaining nominees to bring the number up to that required for the group stages.
And if anybody has a view on where we stand of all of life v eukaryotes v animal kingdom then I'm all ears.
Nominations close at midnight tonight so it's your last day to get those nominations in. If 40 creatures are not seconded I shall hold a draw for the remaining nominees to bring the number up to that required for the group stages.
And if anybody has a view on where we stand of all of life v eukaryotes v animal kingdom then I'm all ears.
Cape Buffelo
This large African animal is also known as ‘the black death.’ It’s for a solid reason. In Africa, it’s one of the animals that responsible for the most number of fatal attacks. This animal is unpredictable and aggressive. When disturbed or attacked, a cape buffalo would attack anything, even a large predator like lions.
A matured cape buffalo stands 6 feet in height and weigh close to a ton. The most noticeable feature and primary weapon of Cape buffalos are their large, thick horns. When a member of the herd or a calf being disturbed, they would charge with their massive horns. Attack from such a large animal like cape buffalo could result in severe injuries or even death.
This large African animal is also known as ‘the black death.’ It’s for a solid reason. In Africa, it’s one of the animals that responsible for the most number of fatal attacks. This animal is unpredictable and aggressive. When disturbed or attacked, a cape buffalo would attack anything, even a large predator like lions.
A matured cape buffalo stands 6 feet in height and weigh close to a ton. The most noticeable feature and primary weapon of Cape buffalos are their large, thick horns. When a member of the herd or a calf being disturbed, they would charge with their massive horns. Attack from such a large animal like cape buffalo could result in severe injuries or even death.
- Aug 7, 2003
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The one and only Blue Diamond Tiger Shrimp
Not only is impossible to keep these crustaceans in a tank as they can cut the glass by rubbing their shells against it, but the have been known to break the teeth of sperm whales, as they are that hard.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
I'll second cockroach.
Also Orca.
And nominate Colossal squid and Brazilian Wandering Spider.
MantisShrimpMan4eva
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- Feb 7, 2014
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I have risen from my slumber in order to fight for what is right.
Frankie
Put him in the curry
The chap has the world at his feet and can lift over 1000 times it's own body weight and walk off with it into the sunset , so i nominate the Dung beetle , it's well ard .
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Don't plants come under Eukaryote? On that basis I'd say Animal kingdom.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Fantastic nomination. Definitely seconded.
It looks equally EVIL and MENTAL = perfect for this competition.
Don't know how many of these have already been nominated because I cant be arsed to trawl back through the thread..........
Poison Dart Frog
Tsetse Fly
Tapeworm
Australian Box Jellyfish
Mosquito
Freshwater Snail
are all fairly unpleasant in their unique but different ways.
Poison Dart Frog
Tsetse Fly
Tapeworm
Australian Box Jellyfish
Mosquito
Freshwater Snail
are all fairly unpleasant in their unique but different ways.
I would like to put forward Nautiloids.
A species that has existed for over 500 Ma from the Cambrian to the present and represented today on earth by Nautiloid pompilius.
This predatory mollusc can be found today in the Indian Ocean and around Australasia between depths of 100 - 700m.
It uses a sophisticated chamber system to control buoyancy and can squirt a jet of water from a cavity known as a hyponome in any direction allowing it to prey on unsuspecting benthic fauna.
It not only has a cool name but looks double hard with its steely looking eyes, grappling tentacle like appendages and it’s powerful beak.
Any creature that can survive 500 million years, remaining relatively unchanged by evolution and sit proudly near the apex of its food chain is surely worthy for consideration of this great title?
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Surely someone can find it in them to second my prehistoric leviathan?
The thing is simplistic, calculated and has endured 500 million years of unchallenged rivalry at the top of its respective food chain. If that doesn’t scream double hard ******* I don’t know what does!!
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MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Yeah go on then.
As I nominate it EVERY BLOODY YEAR ..... seconded.
Kalimantan Gull
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I'll second your jellyfish. I' not entirely sure whats hard about a tsetse fly, or a mosquito for that matter although its an annoying ****er. Explain more on the snail?
I would like to nominate the Basset Hound.
Absolutely seconded !!!!
Kalimantan Gull
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Well. life is divided into three domains, eukaryotes, archaea and bacteria. Eukaroytes have a nucleus and other organelles enclosed inside membranes, and can reproduce sexually, the other two do not and cannot. There's a lot of hard ****ers amongst the Archaea and Bacteria, things that can live in hundreds of degrees heat, all kinds of horrendous environments (including space) and nasty bugs like your Staphyloccus nominated above.
Within your Eukaryotes there are a number of different Kingdoms and Supergroups: Animals, Plants and Fungi, as well as your Excavata (including Trypanosomes) and Amoebozoa (including Plasmodium). So I can understand not nominating stinging nettles, red hot chilli's and your death cap mushroom, although they would all add a certain joie de vivre to the competition, but restricting to Animals does mean we lose malaria and sleeping sickness which I was looking forward to supporting.
Perhaps the winner of the World's Hardest Animal can take on the World's Hardest Amoeba and the World's Hardest Fungus in some kind of ultimate deathmatch. My money is on the latter
