What animals make you cringe, either out of disgust, fear, or just annoyance? For me: Mosquitoes Humans. Yes. Many humans are cringe. Anything that creates tonnes of faeces. Eg. Rats, Crows Maggots Surinam toads. Those eggs give a crippling tryphobia °° Monkeys, especially their blood-red rear-en…

[image] Mercedes-Fletcher: I find it hard to love naked mole-rats I disagree with this part but I love your description of them. I hear “uncooked chicken breasts with legs, teeth, and too many wrinkles” and just think “aw cuties”.

I had different reactions seeing Desert Giant Centipedes Scolopendra heros, in Arizona out on the trails versus in my cabin. They seemed much more creepy inside than out. So much so I didn’t mind as much the large wolf spider that was sharing the cabin with me. :)

@pmeisenheimer I don’t mourn the smallpox virus and I wouldn’t be bent out of shape by the demise of Guinea worms (although I seem to recall hearing that animal reservoirs exist for it, making eradication problematic) but the argument that such and such a species is useless/dangerous/cruel/nasty/i…

I can honestly say there isn’t a single species that gives me a fear/disgust/cringe response. I mean, I study insects, I think parasites are marvels of evolution and find them endlessly enthralling. When I look at any organism I just see its uniqueness, the ecological connections it has with other s…

Deformed animals make me cringe. Like two-headed snakes.

Ticks for me, too - I’ve had bot flies and been around many other “creepy” critters, but the only thing that consistently gives me a gut wrenching feeling when I find one on me is ticks!

Yes ticks. Got my first bite of this year April 13. Still watching. :roll_eyes: Seems early.

@marina_gorbunova I’m sorry, but most of them were extinct long before food revolution. The Neolithic revolution is just an exacerbation of a broader pattern of human-induced environmental destruction that has been going on for much, much longer. Basically what happens is that humans tend to tar…

[image] mamestraconfigurata: Sacrilege! Moths are the most wonderful life form on earth! 100000000000000% agreed with you. Maggots are creepy to most people but to me they are cute.

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marina_gorbunova April 17, 2022, 11:49am 118

I’m sorry, but most of them were extinct long before food revolution.

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What animals make you cringe?

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