Just a couple of hours ago I was like: you carpet beetle, you… you spitting spider, you SEA SQUIRT!
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Disorderly-bristled Stumpy Earthworm
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Mudskipper, evileye blaasop, rat-tailed maggot, sea louse!
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Shame starlings are so destructive here in NA. They really are gorgeous birds.
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Oh, you Blunt-Spined Microcosmi. No English name can compare to the absolute insanity that is german mushroom names. The language is that of Mordor utter devastation, which I will not utter here.
I hope, dear Snotworms, you will never have them be used against you.
So, good luck, my Petite Slime-Tube Feather-Dusters. May you only be called nice animal names.
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Ahh, we are lucky that taxonomists are so bad at naming things.
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I dare you to call me that to my face, you bony-eared assfish!
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I’d call them a spiny lumpsucker.
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There are already existing insults which are animal names.
Pig – used to say that someone is either a slob or a glutton (glutton is also another word for a wolverine).
Worm – used to say that someone is a lowlife.
Snake – also used to say that someone is a lowlife, with the added implication of deceitfulness.
Dog – used to say that someone has crude habits. Referring to a woman, used to mean that she is physically unattractive.
Ass – used to mean that someone is stupid.
Chicken – used to mean that someone is a coward.
Old goat – referring to a man, used to mean that he is lecherous or prurient-minded.
Rat – used to mean that someone has no sense of honor or loyalty.
But these are all unjustly insulting to the animals whose names they are. The same can be said of the clever ones people have come up with in this thread.
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Breviceps fuscus
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Yes, I had to agree with broacher’s insult of homo sapiens…
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Why you… you crazy pyramid ant!
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Umm guys, don’t you know this thread is highly offensive? 
(This is a joke in case it wasn’t obvious, although that Peta tweet is somehow real)
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I can’t recall the last time I used an animal name in insulting a human (there are many better alternatives for insults). I have used human insults on the occasional animal, like when a rat latches onto my finger when I’m trying to remove it from a live-trap (lots of cursing, but really not the rat’s fault, was my carelessness).
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I’m fairly anti-name calling as a general rule – but I make an exception for iNat identifiers!
If I have one non-human group reference that I really hate when it’s used as an insult, it has to be – dinosaur.
To be called one is to be labeled with an incapacity to adapt to change, to be laughingly out of touch.
The problem is that this implies that perhaps the most successful group of animals in life’s history was a joke, and deserved extinction in account of this implied inflexibility.
Imagine not being able to adapt to a cosmic event like a simple asteroid impact! I mean, if they had only been as smart as us…
Right.
ADDENDUM:
Applying the reality (at least technical one) that birds are actually dinosaurs would make a lot of sayings and popular phrases take on the anti-dinosaur slur I mentioned. Such as…
- I’m feeling free as a dinosaur!
- A little dino told me.
- You could have knocked me down with a modified skin scale.
- Don’t count your dinos before they’ve hatched.
Hmm. Maybe this a dino-brained idea?
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Bloodsucking conenose is a favorite of mine.
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You dastardly hairy-nuts disco! You are such a confused sand frog, you great bustard.
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Alternatively, you are a nonsense rat.
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You little whiner!
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I know!!! It is extremely funny to me, the song itself is so hilarious you would never imagine she would be singing some nasty insults.
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