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…

Welcome to the Forum! I don’t mind looking at cockroaches, but when one ran over my face in Mexico one night, I became less enamored of them.

@abhijatshakya was not condoning the actions of the villagers. He wanted to save the snakes, but old habits die hard, especially for organisms with potentially lethal consequences. @abhijatshakya may belong to iNat, but it sounds like the people he closely lives with don’t share the same outlook.

I didn’t think he was. My last “sentiment” was about topic as a whole.

I love parasitology, and came see that any habitat, including humans and other organisms is merely that - a habitat. Life adapts to whatever will sustain them. I respect parasites - they live in environments which are actively trying to kill them. I would prefer not to have one, and do not wish them…

I misinterpreted. I apologize for that, my friend.

What would really make me cringe: if there were parasitoids of humans.

Flies. For some reason, I’m alright with huge spiders, scorpions, centipedes etc. But whenever I see a fly larger than a centimetre in length I begin to stress out

Do non-invasive introduced species count?

What animals make you cringe?

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teellbee December 22, 2021, 2:15am 86

I thought that article on sloths was pretty interesting. I’m glad I got to read it— thanks.

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