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Big D
06-14-2004, 08:32 AM
A sea cucumber can throw up its internal organs in order to repel an attacker. It literally vomits its guts out to scare away something that wants to eat it. :tied:

These organs grow back in a couple of weeks.

This is just one of the many incredible things that animals are capable of, but humans aren't.

What other unique "animal super-powers" would be cool if humans could use them too?

Peegee
06-14-2004, 08:52 AM
vomiting my entrails = cool? Why Big D, what zany hijinks you are often up to!

Pufferfish can ingest a large amount of water in order to expand its perceived size to scare of predators. While drinking lots of water and being bloated isn't something cool, the idea of growing vastly larger than we usually are for a few seconds is (it would help get cats off trees, for example)

Then there's all the stuff insects can do -- lift several hundred times (or whatever) their mass, work in unison even when numbers involve the thousands, etc etc

:D

Masami
06-14-2004, 08:52 AM
I wanna be able to purr... And fly... It'd be cool if I could randomly change my gender too, I know there's some organism that can do that.

Big D
06-14-2004, 12:17 PM
It'd be cool if I could randomly change my gender too, I know there's some organism that can do that.Yep, some fish and amphibians do that spontaneously. Usually if they're in a single-sex environment.
Just imagine if people could do that... a guy goes camping with some guy-buddies, then wakes up to find that one of them has inadvertently become a woman during the night.
Scary thought :joey:

Ki Ki
06-14-2004, 12:37 PM
I wanna fly.
You know that a fly can fly? That is SO fly.

Peegee
06-14-2004, 12:41 PM
Some animals do nothing all day except sleep. I want to do that!

:D

TasteyPies
06-14-2004, 12:55 PM
I would like to ----------------- like cats and dogs do.

Other than that, flying would be nifty. So would the sleeping all day and having my food given to me every day in a dish. Also having a thin layer of see-through eyelid that i can use while swimming to keep watewr out of my eyes would be cool. Tails are roxxor also. Oh and multi-colored fur. Scales are uber too. uh.... (now wants to be an animal)

Skogs
06-14-2004, 12:58 PM
Being able to brachiate like a gibbon would be cool. Echolocation, too.

Mattokenzi
06-14-2004, 01:07 PM
Loiness can hold child birth for up to 9 months when the cub is made

Ki Ki
06-14-2004, 01:09 PM
Did you know that monkeys can smoke??
I wish i could.

Dixie
06-17-2004, 12:32 AM
Cats can go in to that "yoga" position and lick their tails.:catsmile:

TasteyPies
06-17-2004, 12:38 AM
you mean the magic leg in mid air trick? i know......wow

black orb
06-17-2004, 01:21 AM
>>> Spiderman powers..

Logan
06-17-2004, 01:45 AM
Cats bathe themselves by licking. :)

TasteyPies
06-17-2004, 02:12 AM
Cats bathe themselves by licking. :)

Ooo naughty thoughts -Legendary Frog

An animals uncanny ability to not have a sense of humor.

The Wandering Zero
06-17-2004, 03:25 AM
I'd like to be able to have people lick me and then they hallucinate.

Naturally that is, not after coating myself in LSD and going into a coma.

Ouch!
06-17-2004, 03:38 AM
Starfish can regrow their lost "arms."

HOOTERS
06-17-2004, 05:17 AM
Just once I'd like to be able to hump a strangers leg and get away with it. :monster:

Rainecloud
06-17-2004, 07:36 AM
Cats lick quite a few sensitive organs on their body, and it's fairly impressive.

I can only dream of contorting by body into those positions.

Meat Puppet
06-17-2004, 10:00 AM
They all manage to somehow end up on the plate of a human, in one way or the other.

erikramza
06-17-2004, 10:35 AM
... I once saw a cat poop apples because it was hungry.

Erdrick Holmes
06-17-2004, 10:49 AM
I wanna be able to unhinge my jaw like a snake and swallow a whole turkey.

Mikztsu
06-17-2004, 03:13 PM
I wish I could sleep over winters, like bears can. I <i>hate</i> winter.

Chimp
06-17-2004, 03:40 PM
Gills. Who knows what awaits us underwater :D
3/4 of the earth is covered in it.

DocFrance
06-17-2004, 05:11 PM
Coral (yes, coral is classified as an animal) sits there and does absolutely nothing. What sets it apart from most human beings is that the coral is actually a vital part of its environment :p

The Wandering Zero
06-18-2004, 04:53 PM
That and it doesn't talk...

Unlike humans -_-.

Takara
06-19-2004, 08:05 AM
Cats also have the ability to make their master bend to their every whim without even complaining... In fact, it's not the master owning the cat, but the cast owning the master.

I wish I could be cool like that. :D

Silmaril
06-19-2004, 10:02 AM
Cats=Beyond Cool

I'd like retractable claws though. *SLICE SLICE SLICE*

nik0tine
06-20-2004, 02:56 PM
when male cats hit puberty they get the urge to piss on everything. if that happened to humans, what an odd site middle/high school would be eh?

Dixie
06-22-2004, 05:25 PM
when male cats hit puberty they get the urge to piss on everything. if that happened to humans, what an odd site middle/high school would be eh?High/middle school wouldn't be a great place to be.

About the male cats and the puberty thing..... that's why all 5 of my cats are females.

Shlup
06-22-2004, 11:22 PM
I, uhm... Having a giraffe tongue would be cool. :}~

Yamaneko
06-22-2004, 11:35 PM
I wish I was one of those insects that mates and dies all within a 24 hour period.

nik0tine
06-23-2004, 12:37 AM
yeah dixie i think tahts a good idea. my cat decided to target my shoulder one day.

Shlup
06-23-2004, 12:52 AM
I wish I was one of those insects that mates and dies all within a 24 hour period.Why not a pig? I hear they have 30-minute orgasms.