Most pointless animal



Arkle said:
Oh, I know they pollenate plants and, in a lot of environments, they're apex predators and keep numbers of caterpillars and other larvae down. It'd just be nice if they did this less annoyingly!
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They just need a fluffy orange and black jumper/cardy.
 
West_Winger said:
Cats are brilliant. I couldn’t stand them until we got ours but they’re class.
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You have now been conditioned.

Flared Hicks said:
Leeches now the medical profession no longer use them to cure everything from warts to gangarene
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They do still use them, they're farmed. The little electric fences to stop them escaping must be a right fuck on to build.
 
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What A Waster said:
How do worms help you or anybody else in your life?
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  • They make compost
  • Put organic material into soil
  • Plants grow in soil
  • We eat plants
  • Or animals that eat plants
Basically life on Earth as we know it would end without them, but apart from that they're pointless :lol:

Arkle said:
Agreed about wasps. However, cats are ace, plankton are a key food source for larger marine life (also the singular form is plankter, which is my word of the week) and it very much depends on the worms you're talking about.
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All worms play an important role in the environment, earthworms, nematodes or any other.
 
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Koalas are f***ing horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their f***ing lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like f***ing satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently... Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're f***ing terrible animals. Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I f***ing hate them.
 

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