Frightening creature

I've been in a cage with a tiger (don't ask), that was pretty scary. Crocs are pretty horrible.

Crocodiles win this hands down. They're like the dinosaurs that just didn't die out.

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/seven/2004/10/freaky-trigger-top-25-scariest-thingsno24-crocodiles/

Scorpions might have got a few votes

By the way, you can't just say things like "I've been in a cage with a tiger" and then not elaborate.

I know. It was for a photo. Not my idea.

It was for a photo of you getting your head bitten off?

others, massive silver back gorilla that just won't stop pounding away on your head. Shitting hell.

Croc easy. I feel like I might be able to reason with most everything else, but a croc's like an freaky alien killing machine. With sharks you can just not go swimming, and spiders you just step on.

scary things about crocs is how they seem completely hidden, until you accidentally tread on its back..

http://image04.webshots.com/4/6/14/39/106861439OIiRuz_fs.jpg

Just look at their eyes! They are gonna fuck you up.

a vicious rat is a nasty thing, so unbelievably fast if it jumps at you. my house mate had his nose messed up thanks to his angry pet (huge) white rat. which later died in mysterious circumstances involving a brick and a sink full of water.

Careful now, that swan could break your arm

snakes gahhhh. i'm terrified of even small ones.

Polar bear! I had a dream about being trapped in some cabin with polar bear breaking down the wall and coming for me, it actually got to bite my legs before I woke up. My heart was pounding when I woke up and every time I see a polar bear on a programme, it reminds me of that dream.

How on earth does my mind know what it’s like to have my leg bitten by a polar bear?

Polar bears look cuddly though, not esp. true of crocodiles

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources-www/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/swpy/2007/popup/50.jpg

^ the stuff of nightmares

Or dreams, if you're Timothy Treadwell from that Herzog film.

crocs n gators seem ludicrous to me because they're always smiling. if one were about to eat me, I'd think, "well, at least he is pleased about it."

sharks are pretty creepy but mostly because they're unseen, shifting around under the water's surface. face to face they lack personality, it would be like getting attacked by a statue with lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye.

massive silver back gorilla on the rampage would be pretty frightening, and grizzlies are too. something terrifying about something so big and fast and vicious attacking you, not because it's hungry, but because it's pissed.

Gruesome grizzly attack as man, bear shield own

By CAROL SMITH
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

In the split second before he saw the grizzly's fangs, Johan Otter heard his daughter Jenna's startled voice.

"Oh NO!" Jenna Otter, 18, had been hiking just ahead of her dad as they zigzagged up the steep switchbacks of the Grinnell Glacier Trail at Glacier National Park on Aug. 25. As she turned a blind corner just above the tree line, she stumbled into the path of a sow with two cubs.

The mother bear surged straight for the man. Her teeth sank into his right thigh, and her long claws raked his face, shattering his right eye socket.

In the surreal moments that followed, he tried to keep the bear focused on himself.

"Stay with me," he remembers thinking. "Just don't go to Jenna."

And so the bear and the 43-year-old administrator at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, Calif., locked in an ancient battle hardwired into each of their genes: Protect your young at all costs. Even your life.

Otter, a marathoner, threw himself 30 feet down an embankment with the bear in pursuit to try to get farther away from his daughter. The bear, estimated at about 400 pounds, landed on top of his back.

She had an "out of this world" strength, said Otter. "I was like a rag doll, and I weigh 185 pounds." She flung him back and forth, and he fell even farther. By then, he could feel his spine had fractured. (Doctors would later find five vertebrae breaks, plus three shattered ribs.)

"I reached up and grabbed her by the throat," he said. With his other hand he scrabbled for a rock or his bear spray, with no success. "I knew I couldn't push her away."

Frantic, he tried to cover his head with his arms, as hikers are warned to do by park rangers.

"I felt her tooth go into my scalp," he said. "I thought, 'Oh, this is no good.' " Then he felt his scalp rip clean away.

Otter, whose wry sense of humor was just about the only thing left intact by the attack, lived (barely) and recounted his ordeal Friday from Harborview Medical Center, where surgeons fashioned him a new scalp and bolted his battered body back together.

He recalled that with his head clamped in the bear's jaws, he could hear his skull crack. It occurred to him he could die.

"But then I thought, 'No, that's not an option today.' "

And just as suddenly, he felt the bear release him.

His next thought: "Oh my God, Jenna." He lay in a stream, on a small embankment 50 feet below the trail. He couldn't move. He made no noise, not wanting to incite the bear. He hoped the bear had released its fury on him and would have little left for his daughter.

He tried to see through his bloody eye. There were "strings of scalp" hanging down in front of his face. He could see the tendons exposed in his arm.

What he couldn't see was his daughter curled into a fetal position, on a ledge 20 feet above him, her eyes wide open, facing the bear. The bear clamped down -- biting first Jenna's face, then her shoulder.

Jenna, an experienced hiker who, like her father, was familiar with bear-safety protocol, didn't flinch, her father recounted later. "That's courage."

The bear, finally spent, left the two alone.

also, dreams of wild animals in the house indicate you feel some part of your life is out of control < /freud>

I voted croc, but am thinking people are underestimating the Gila Monster here. At least with bears you get mauled to death by something vaguely pleasant-looking and furry. If you were in the Arctic you'd probably be glad of the fluffy warmth as the huge beast eats your face off.

yea, i'm going w/ either of the bears on this one.

gila monster? you might as well be afraid of a three-toed tree sloth

I'm feeling kind of sorry for the misunderstood gila monster now

Though the Gila monster is venomous, its sluggish nature means that it represents little threat to humans. However, it has earned a fearsome reputation, and is often killed by hikers and homeowners, despite being protected by state law in Arizona and Nevada.

I guess that's what happens when your name is "monster"

I'm gonna start a campaign to rename them gila friends

Komodo dragon hella scarier

Actually, I think I was picturing the Komodo dragon when I was saying the Gila Monster was scary. But still, they're both pretty freakish looking.

oh man, tiger or a lion. because they are super fast...

Something tells me I maybe could outrun an alligator or outsmart a lumbering ol' grizzy bear. But once a tiger gets you in it's sights you are fucked.

come on guys:

http://images.smarter.com/blogs/grizzly.jpg

Squeeeee!

I think deadly jellyfish might scare me more than most of the things on this list, mostly because you're more likely to be stung to death than eaten.

Also, like, way ugly.

Polar bears look cuddly though

― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.),
Right, now all i need is a hug...
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/polar-bear.jpg

crappy quality video but i sing this song to my kid every night after her bath and our favorite part is the bear part

also as terrifying as crocodiles are they at least have the decency to drown you before they eat you

And so the bear and the 43-year-old administrator at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, Calif., locked in an ancient battle hardwired into each of their genes: Protect your young at all costs. Even your life.

Otter, a marathoner, threw himself 30 feet down an embankment with the bear in pursuit to try to get farther away from his daughter. The bear, estimated at about 400 pounds, landed on top of his back.

In a DANCE as OLD as TIME.

Can i come in your tent for some snuggles?
http://www.freedomwriter.com/issue35/ak34.htm
oops, did i snuggle too hard :(

The terrifying Gila Monster, folks:

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/sabourin_joel/gila%20food%201.jpg

Hahaha! Nooo, get it away from me.

Aiiieee not_goodwin, that last photo is really quite gross.

outsmart a lumbering ol' grizzy bear

see that's what scary about them, they look big and slow and dumb, but they will fucking run you down

In spite of their massive size, these bears can run at speeds of up to 64 kilometres per hour (40 miles per hour).

How come no Honey Badger on here?
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Particularly like the way it shrugs off being poisoned by snake with a snooze!

aww, can a mod fix that please?

Python eats alligator, then explodes

http://blogs.herald.com/photos/uncategorized/gator.JPG

I'm having difficulty understanding that picture

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, October 5, 2005 9:36 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

it looks like the thing with three tails

oh my GOD

Do you mind, I'm eating here

I think bears and wolves and other mammals have become so anthropomorphized for me that even under attack, I'd be all thinking "Are you looking for a pick-a-nick basket, Mr. Bear?"

Meanwhile, snakes are these slippery, silent creatures that can live on land or in water and kill you by suffocation, poison, biting, or a combination of all three.

A bear barreling through my doorway would be one thing, but I gotta say it'd be much scarier to wake up, rub my eyes groggily, and look down to see a boa constrictor squeezing me in the darkness.

yeah, i think we're really just writing off sharks because 'you could just leave the water'. you could just avoid continents where there are bears and snakes, but that's not the question.

which of these creatures that would look at you with terrible hunger, utterly annihilate you and leave no trace (black widow excepted, obv) is the most scary? kind of assumes you're there already. So:

http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/mbn_shark_wideweb__470x321,0.jpg

I think this is an elvis vs. beatles thing. are you more afraid of the higher or lower beings on the evolutionary scale?

as for croc and shark,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00673/crocsharknews_673465c.jpg

Anything I can stamp on/kick in the head doesn't scare me so much (even if the reality is obviously different) so snakes, spiders and scorpians aren't at all scary.

(Why the hell do I have this thread bookmarked?)

12.5 mph with no legs is pretty good.

black mambas are fast but from what I understand they won't chase you. they want to get away from you and their bites are defensive in nature.

my favorite is the spitting cobra, it will spray a 6 foot stream of venom into your eyes with great accuracy causing temporary or permanent blindness

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/21/cobra-venom.html

lol

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_spitting_cobra_eat

A: THEY EAT SMALL CRITTERS OF LAKES AND PONDS

it is terrifying that apparently you cannot even outrun a grizzly bear on a racing bike (maybe cutty could tho?)

watch out. bears have been training.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uVh5xMa0L._SS500_.jpg

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa85/work_sucks/pic-shark-guad2big.jpg

Come on! Sharks can't follow you onto dry land. Alligators will chase you down.

Pfft, it's a fix!

I don't believe that I just looked up the Wikipedia entry for Care Bears...

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/952583/2/istockphoto_952583_crying_lion.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_THJ_mo9A8P8/SYuysXDvrmI/AAAAAAAAA0s/HtXV0kbnjYE/s320/thumb-sad_tiger.jpg

SadGilaMonster.jpeg

Gustave the giant crocodile was robbed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_(crocodile)

According to a park ranger, Gustave has even killed and eaten an adult hippopotamus

Also this:

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/04/13/mn_croc_attack_xtpe801.jpgg

Damn. That should have been a pic of a croc with a severed human arm in it's mouth.

you mean this?
http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/04/13/mn_croc_attack_xtpe801.jpg

That is one happy crocodile.

nothin' is more satisfying than the first severed human arm of the day after you wake up

HOW DID I MISS THIS THREAD

anyhow: met a girl from AK whose next door neighbors went on a camping trip (the whole fam). THE ENTIRE FAMILY WAS EATEN BY BEARS

that is a true story, by the way

!!!!

omg don't go camping, sunny!

dudes i love alaska so much but this bear situation has me reevaluting

also i camp in 5 star hotels

because im a wuss

oh is AK alaska? i read it as arkansas.

xps lol

i have never been to AK :(

This is an excellent National Geographic article about Gustave the giant croc: A cold-blooded serial killer is on the loose. His name is Gustave. He's 20 feet long, weighs 2,000 pounds, and stands accused of devouring hundreds of people. Writer Michael McRae and photographer Bobby Model travel to war-torn Burundi to confront the man-eater..

Gustave is a badass

I wish Pixar would make a reboot, CGI version of Jaws.

Reading about stonefish freaked me out as a kid. Not that they look all that terrible and they won't attack you, but the incredible amount of pain involved is just terrifying.

I wish Pixar would make a reboot, CGI version of Jaws.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 5 April 2009 23:27 (Yesterday) Bookmark

Joke right?

Nope. Not a kids movie, obv.

i would like to see a spoof episode of Go Fishing where Quint goes for a day fishing with 'laughing' John Wilson

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/4/12/1239531064040/Polar-bear-attack-A-woman-004.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/cobain_bear.jpg

This little fella would kill all of the above

holy smokes, what a trooper

Yeah, fuckin little battler, innit.

ok, that Cobain/Bear thing has made my day

omg i want an army of honey badgers

just huge weasels aren't they, badgers. kill all the time.

total badgeass

http://www.fishing-worldrecords.com/relaunch/icons2/images/goonch%20record.jpg

The goonch. Likes da humnans, also has the best name.

will this thread ever end?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7999909.stm
i hope not!

"We are still seriously looking for the snake," said Supt Katam. "We want to arrest the snake because any one of us could fall a victim."

OFFICER, ARREST THAT SNAKE

SNAKES IN A JAIL

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