I mean logically there has to be one, but nobody thinks about it. So what is an animal you struggle to find any interesting about? Unpopular does not mean uninteresting! What animal do you feel complete and total apathy towards? Maybe it’s somebody else’s favorite! EDIT: Clarifying that I am asking…

They have cool scales though! In terms of statistical amount of interest from individual people: Many folks have interest in them for the sake of knowing how to get rid of them, but it’s interest nonetheless… Maybe this would make them one of the more “interesting” insects. I used the word “intere…

[image] oksanaetal: Some kind of tiny arthropod. I have more interest for tiny arthropods than I do for most other animals

Great apes. Too close to humans.

It’s like… I’m not interested in the weird little crawly things that occupy leaves. But I found high detail observations by someone who’s clearly deeply invested in the weird crawly things that live in leaves and make odd patterns, and I had this odd wistfulness that there was absolutely nothing i c…

I don’t think the least interesting animal would be one we know nothing about because the unknown is inherently interesting. The least interesting animal, in my opinion, would be one that we know enough about, but it doesn’t do anything too unique compared to other animals, and is otherwise very ave…

If you cut up flatworms, they can regenerate. Isn’t that of interest?

I knew it! And yes, that is indeed interesting; more effective than your liver!

But that is interesting too! They’re us in the stone age, before our very eyes!

I think the lesson from this is, humanity is so diverse, and apparently the iNat forum is so huge, that it is never difficult to find interest in a given taxon. @lawrence_from_california , you may have asked an impossible question.

Least Interesting Animal?

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zygarde May 3, 2025, 8:55am 22

fun question. i have no idea. but it’d be fun to do some sorta study on it.

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