Deadly And Scary Animals

[angie]

I think I would cut my foot off...BLECH!!!!!!

[tizz]

I always knew there was a reason I was afraid of worms EEEEK!

[RoyalOrleans]

I once squeezed off a .9mm round at a camel spider. Splattered the son of a bitch, too.

 

Here's a link to a video of a camel spider, aka windscorpion, feasting upon a lizard.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=BY9Cc-13Ubk

[builder]

That vid is great. Most spiders suck the life out of their prey. Do these critters actually eat theirs?

 

Also are the pincers vertically aligned, RO?

[Komrade Vostok Hazard]

Camel Spiders do leave nasty bites

 

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[Outlaw2747]

That vid is great. Most spiders suck the life out of their prey. Do these critters actually eat theirs?

 

Also are the pincers vertically aligned, RO?

 

This creature actually EATS its prey for it does not have any venom to subdue its prey. As for the pincers...this picture answers the question for ya.

 

 

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[Vortex]

That vid is great. Most spiders suck the life out of their prey. Do these critters actually eat theirs?

 

Also are the pincers vertically aligned, RO?

 

 

OMG....could you imagine?

 

http://www.enhg.org/b/b16/16_25.htm

 

 

"These creatures are nocturnal, spending days in a tiny burrow or hole which it has dug itself. They are unlikely to be encountered in the colder months, but during the warmer period of the year they can infest some areas. Members report being "overrun" by camel spiders while camping in gravelly desert south of AI Wagan, on the Al Ain - Al Liwa road. The spiders were apparently attracted by firelight and moved extremely fast, running over soft sand, hard-packed gravel, or bodies, with equal ease."

 

 

ugh....so much for finishing my breakfast

[builder]

Thanks Vorty.

 

The male courts the female by stroking her with his pedipalpi and forelegs. This reduces her to a passive state, as if anaesthetized, whereupon the male lays her on her side.

 

Raising his body he ejects a mass of spermatozoa onto the ground, picks it up with his chelicerae and forces it into the vagina. He closes the opening and waits a few moments and then hurriedly departs before the female has a chance to grab and eat him.

 

Sex sounds like no fun at all in spider land.

[angie]

Here's a scary one. The Humboldt Squid, a.k.a. the "red devil". Fuckers will eat you alive! Watching a special about them on the Discovery Channel right now.

[Outlaw2747]

Here's a scary one. The Humboldt Squid, a.k.a. the "red devil". Fuckers will eat you alive! Watching a special about them on the Discovery Channel right now.

 

http://Off Topic Forum.com/showpost.php?p=401449&postcount=31

 

Roger that Angie. Definitely one of the most deadliest predators in the sea. Also one of the most intelligent. They actually have moved as far north as Monterey Bay, California. They are usually found around the Sea Of Cortez and south. Usually pack hunters, it is quite eerie to see a 6 foot long animal glowing in the dark staring at you only to see others of its kind rush you at the same time. rojo diablos I think they call them. These guys are considered a delicacy but when you are in THEIR turf, it becomes the other way around. Ironically, some divers have swam with these creatures only to just have them observe the divers and even play with them. But they were protected and this action I would not recommend.

[angie]

Builder, have you ever been to Great Barrier Reef?

I watched an hour show on the Box Jellyfish, and Irukandji. Really neat stuff. Although after watching the effects of being stung by the Irukandji the woman was given the maximum dosage of morphine and STILL screaming in agony I don't know that I'd want to tread that water. The worst part is you can't see the damn things! (They're about the size of your fingernail)

And they are 500 more times poisonous than the Man O War.

[builder]

Builder, have you ever been to Great Barrier Reef?

I watched an hour show on the Box Jellyfish, and Irukandji. Really neat stuff. Although after watching the effects of being stung by the Irukandji the woman was given the maximum dosage of morphine and STILL screaming in agony I don't know that I'd want to tread that water. The worst part is you can't see the damn things! (They're about the size of your fingernail)

And they are 500 more times poisonous than the Man O War.

 

I worked on a tourist catamaran out of Cairns for one summer, Angie.

 

We went to Green Island for morning tea, and on to Michaelmus Quay for a few hours snorkelling. It was awseome. Best snorkelling in my life. And those critters are visible if you are in the water with mask and snorkel.

 

The box jelly and the Irukandji are pretty much coastal critters. Hanging in the estuaries and inlets, getting flushed out after rain. Rarely found out on the reef proper.

 

You have more chance of being killed by falling coconuts in the tropics, than by any other cause, I was told yesterday. Like, 150 times more common.

 

Here's a yarn about box jellies. A moron from the surf life savers places the tentacles of one in a coke bottle and put it in the fridge. One of the younger kids thought it was water, and drank it.

 

Now that would have been painful. He lived.

[Lethalfind]

You know the compulsion that makes people rubber neck at car accidents knowing that if they see anything of substance they will be grossed out??

 

It was that complusion that made me look at this post. I hope I can sleep tonight...

[Vortex]

and those deeps sea things that swim around...they fascinate the hell out of me....but give me the creeps all the same!

 

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[builder]

You know the compulsion that makes people rubber neck at car accidents knowing that if they see anything of substance they will be grossed out??

 

It was that complusion that made me look at this post. I hope I can sleep tonight...

 

Mwahahahahahahaaaaaaah.

 

Do come again.

[builder]

and those deeps sea things that swim around...they fascinate the hell out of me....but give me the creeps all the same!

 

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Looks like the fascination that created the Alien series with Sigourney Weaver.

[Vortex]

wow it kinda does

 

 

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far too spiderish if you ask me....SHUDDER!

[builder]

It's a jungle sometimes.

It makes me wonder how

I keep from goin' under.

 

 

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[RoyalOrleans]

and those deeps sea things that swim around...they fascinate the hell out of me....but give me the creeps all the same!

 

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Oddly simian in the face, perhaps the creature is in the midst of evolving.

[Outlaw2747]

wow it kinda does

 

 

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far too spiderish if you ask me....SHUDDER!

 

It trurly lives up to its name.

[Outlaw2747]

Oddly simian in the face, perhaps the creature is in the midst of evolving.

 

That fish looks alot like a viperfish, though I cannot be sure. Vicious, but actually harmless they say. Only attains a lenght of 2 feet but can withstand tremendous water pressure and cold depths. Just like all other deep sea fish, it is bioluminescent.

[RoyalOrleans]

That fish looks alot like a viperfish, though I cannot be sure. Vicious, but actually harmless they say. Only attains a lenght of 2 feet but can withstand tremendous water pressure and cold depths. Just like all other deep sea fish, it is bioluminescent.

 

Well thank you very fucking much, Mr. Jacques Cousteau.

 

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Ugly fucker.

[RoyalOrleans]

This is another deep ocean variety of the viperfish. From the genus Chauliodus, the chaulidous attenionuswhorus

 

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These deep ocean dwellers prey on the minds of impressionable young white girls. The "britneyfish" should be hunted to extinction.

[angie]

Well thank you very fucking much, Mr. Jacques Cousteau.

 

LMFAO!!

I was actually quite sad when he died. He was my hero as a kid (I was OBSESSED with sharks-still have a soft spot for them. I'm very excited I'll have someone to take the the Aquarium with me who will enjoy it as much as I do!)

[Vortex]

This is another deep ocean variety of the viperfish. From the genus Chauliodus, the chaulidous attenionuswhorus

 

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These deep ocean dwellers prey on the minds of impressionable young white girls. The "britneyfish" should be hunted to extinction.

 

 

is the britneyfish related to the lovefish?

 

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either way they are bottom dwellers who feed off of larger and more talented fish to survive...