Worse.
front bottom?
Well - this is certainly an animal I never wanted to hear about.... here a little bit from wiki:
Though there have been documented candiru attacks on humans, [[8]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru#cite_note-cecil-7) there is no evidence the fish can survive once inside a human. A traditional cure involves the use of two plants, the Jagua plant ( Genipa americana ) and the Buitach apple which are inserted (or their extract in the case of tight spaces) into the affected area. In theory, these two plants together will kill and then dissolve the fish. More often, infection causes shock and death in the victim before the candiru can be removed .
As a total arachnophobic, I'd vote for spiders... especially the big hairy ones.. Let the bats take care of the mosquitoes...
The hideous horrible Hagfish is sometimes known as the "slime eel", but doesn't belong in the eel family. Most scientists agree its morphology is too primitive to be considered a true fish. It's also generally agreed to be the most disgusting of all sea creatures.
Hagfish feed by entering a rotting corpse through its mouth and eating from the inside out. It has no bones, jaws, or stomach, but multiple hearts. Its defensive mechanism is an ability to produce enormous amounts of mucous, which combines with the surrounding water to create a thick slime (see a video of this process here ), enabling it to slip away from the jaws of predators. It cleans off afterwards by tying itself into a knot.
Having been a keeper of them from eggs to death, my vote goes to stick insects. they are totally non entertaining and I don't think that they have any part in the eco system either. They also require lavish funerals involving shoe boxes and masses of toilet roll (if you have a seven year old). If the insect dies and she's not around a quick flush down the loo suffices.
Ok, here's a few more...
The chihuahua, or any dog that is carried all day and fits in a handbag.
Leeches. Yeah I know they've got lots of medical uses...
Horse flies, and their evil twin, bot flies.
my vote goes to: pidgeons !
I was going to say sea-slugs but that was because somehow, I had managed to forget all about Hagfish. Thank you for the flashback and now I change my vote, sea-slugs aren't so bad after all.
P.S Not looking at the link and you can't make me .
Take that back! They provide hours of entertainment, keep blackberry growth under control and shake their cute little selves like leaves in the breeze.
Take it back and I'll remove my groan!
Ate pigeon at the weekend, very nice it was too.
Sorry Ms. Godess, I'll have to live with that groan because I won't take it back. We stupidly raised ours over the winter when blackberry was scarce, I have clambered over rocks and invaded gardens to get a couple of precious leaves for the ingrates . I think ours were inbred, they seldom waved or behaved in a mimicking nature way, really they were just stick like. Daughter wasn't bothered by them until one died and as I said, state funeral springs to mind (if state funerals involved a shoe box and a roll of yellow Andrex - you just can't find matchboxes anymore!)
Did anyone here have sea monkeys as a kid? The simulated pictures in the ads always looked so cute, little crowns n all...
I never saw a real brine shrimp until years later, when I tried growing them in commercial quantities to feed to my goldfish. Alas I didn't have green (shrimpy?) fingers so nothing ever hatched.
pandas help to keep the forests from getting too dense
Deb : What are you drawing?
Napoleon Dynamite : A liger.
Deb : What's a liger?
Napoleon Dynamite : It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.
In the US, where people still use checks, the most useful part of said check is the checkbook box, very handy for state funerals of small pets.
Then there's the Tigon
by being fat and crashing into tree's a lot...
i hate to raise the hackles (weak pun!!!) of any would-be animal rightists, but...
may i ask where and how was it prepared? was it home kitchen, and if so, did you catch bird yourself, or did you purchase a dead/living one?
I would like to tell you I caught with my bare hands and plucked it before eating it raw like a proper man...unfortunately I went to a restaurant and ordered it to see what it tasted like...very nice, quite gamey and little nutty I thought.
Did it taste like red wine flavoured boot?
I'm not sure I could eat a pigeon, I've seen them for sale but will always associate them with the sh*tehawks of Trafalger Square Apparently they are only for the rich; I think the ones for sale in Norfolk are wood pigeons rather than the flying rats that are common in cities.