The 100 Most Fascinatingly Disgusting Members Of The Animal Kindom

1. The Naked Mole Rat

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Nacktmull.jpg

that is disgusting.

The naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber), also known as the sand puppy or desert mole rat, is a burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa and the only species currently classified in genus Heterocephalus. It is one of only two known eusocial mammals (the other being the Damaraland mole rat) and has a highly unusual set of physical traits that enables it to thrive in a harsh, underground environment, including a lack of pain sensation in its skin and a very low metabolism.

The naked mole rat is one of the two species of mammals that exhibit eusociality. This eusocial organisation social structure, similar to that found in ants, termites, and some bees and wasps, is very rare among mammals. The Damaraland Mole Rat (Cryptomys damarensis) is the only other eusocial mammal currently known.

Queen and Gestation

The relationships between the queen and the breeding males may last for many years, others females are temporally sterile. Queens live from 13 to 18 years, and are extremely hostile to other females behaving like queens, or producing hormones for becoming queens. When the queen dies, another female takes her place, sometimes after a violent struggle with her competitors.

Gestation is about 70 days. A litter typically ranges from three to twelve pups, but may be as large as 28. The average litter size is 11.[4] In the wild, naked mole-rats usually breed once a year, if the litter survives. In captivity, they breed all year long and can produce a litter every 80 days.[5] The young are born blind and weigh about 2 grams (0.071 oz). The queen nurses them for the first month; after which the other members of the colony feed them feces until they are old enough to eat solid food.

Promising thread.

is this your personal list or a free-for-all? If the latter...

2. The giant isopod.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Giant_isopod.jpg

is this your personal list or a free-for-all

the latter. have at it folks!

3. The blobfish

http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/files/news/images/blobfish.jpg

it's ziggy

jesus christ i am not looking at another one of these pictures

blobfish = mitch mcconnell meme

http://fauxpopuli.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/mitch-mcconnell-09081.jpg

also i would totally kiw a giant isopod

meanwhile it would totally eyf (eat your face)

4. The sea lamprey

http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00946/pic_used/sea_lamprey.jpg

RIP Beaver

5. The botfly, which deposits larvae in the bodies of mammals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqV1MCDLcMM

6. star-nosed mole

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1963/a304starnosedmole.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Giant_isopod.jpg

^^^what is up with this photo. the hand is all wrong, this is shopped somehow right...?

7. coconut crab

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/672/pets0918.jpg

xpost two hands

two left hands? and one without a wrist?

8. Warty Sea Cucumber

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vxu_tx5NynY/SKeKUBKJpSI/AAAAAAAAJoY/6ecboStGNHQ/s400/DSC_9723m6.jpg

xpost i see a left hand and a right hand, left arm hidden directly behind beastie

oh I see it now.. although I dunno something about the right hand looks wrong to me

xp

Oh god I almost screamed out loud at that picture of the coconut crab on the bin. I will continue checking this thread out of some bizarre compulsion I don't understand.

Oh I forgot to mention another thing about Naked Mole Rats: in addition to being hideous, unusually long-lived feces-eating monsters that feel no pain, they also are to known to reproduce primarily through inbreeding.

They are so fucking awesome.

http://i42.tinypic.com/mto4d5.jpg

The so-called ghost slug first appeared in South Wales gardens in 2006, possibly after arriving as a stowaway in imported potted plants.

The nocturnal predator is armed with blade-like teeth (see inset) for slicing through animal flesh and can measure up to 5 inches (13 centimeters) long when stalking its prey.

They engulf worms piece by piece. One end of the worm will still be alive while the other is being gradually ratcheted into the slug by the teeth.

OMG at the naked mole rat fun facts. I had no idea!

Star nosed mole would have been the first thing to come to mind for me. They're even worse when you see them moving. *shudder*

Have we forgotten the tongue eating isopod?

http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f181/44221d1239579277-tongue-eating-isopod-tongue-replacement-isopod-1.jpg

ps - Harbl, it IS NOT cute. ;)

11) that fish that swims up your penis and sticks out its barbed fins

omg i hadn't even scrolled down far enough to read that before thinking "so cute" xpost

LOL I swear I remember you thinking that it was cute when we posted about it last year or something. :-)

Jimmy Mod - was going to post penis parasite fish but apparently that may be a myth?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru

awwwww, the widdle isopod looks like he's hugging the fish's tongue. except he's not hugging it, he's hanging onto what's left of the tongue after he ripped it to shreds with his razor-sharp claws. but it looks like he's hugging the fish's tongue, awwwww.

i just like its little face, and the front legs

its face looks just like a guinea pig's face, only pickled.

OK its face and legs are sorta cute but the whole ripping out the tongue thing negates that for me I guess.

one man's meat is another man's parasitic, tongue-shredding crustacean, eh

That coconut crab thing is some next-level skin-crawling shit. Did someone post that on a spider thread before or did I imagine that?

OK so somehow while looking for more ideas for this thread I just wound up looking at tons of pics of Peruvian guinea pig meals. They serve the suckers up whole legs and tails and all! O_O

x-post - Yes, it was on a poll about which spider was the scariest even though it's not a spider but a crab. It was on that thread that I learned they hang out in trees and sometimes DROP FROM THE TREES AND LAND ON PPL'S HEADS. omg.

xpost - how cruel! how disgusting! how barbaric!

are the guinea pigs pickled, perchance?

there is an img macro of that coconut crab going IS THIS THE OCEAN and i love it but i can't find it

Guinea pigs not pickled lol. Look sorta roasted. It's not really people eating them that was gross just seeing them charred and whole was kinda surprising.

umm one of the "view image results" hits if you google the coconut crab involves one climbing up a guy's bare chest

for a second that felt gross, and then it started seeming like if you can just let them hang out on your bare chest, they must be pretty cool crabs

WAIT, i take it back, he is holding it suspended NEAR his bare chest, duh

urgh, those photos of guinea pigs laid out like roasted pigs, with little red peppers in their mouths, are waaaay over-the-top, even for jaded old me.

11) (Since we have established that the penis fish is a myth): Giant Salamander

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/BB-Japanese-Giant-Salamander.jpg

http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~herpsgh/atama.jpg

HI I WILL SEE YOU IN YOUR DREAMS!

oh lord

that is something else

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

u r disgusting. Another YT about the wonders of hagfish slime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcOqGV0Kcp0

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/wormeye.asp

^^^ Botfly removed from a kid's EYE.

not clicking on that, but a friend of the family (a budding filmmaker) got a worm in his eye while in central america and went blind :-/

World, say hello to...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8JslCp67Hcg/TaMJiZ_qf7I/AAAAAAAAA0k/wHjs6EEyqhI/s400/RockVomit.grid-4x2.jpg

ROCK VOMIT.

What is that? Besides proof that there is no God, and if there ever was, he hated us and wanted us to be unhappy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42476651/ns/us_news-environment/

"sea squirt"

Not only does it look like snot...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7wipJ8SWBV4/TaMK-wb1AQI/AAAAAAAAA0s/Pz5LY6aY1IQ/s400/seasquirt_lg.jpg

... but because it "smothers other creatures while producing acidic toxins that in turn prevent anything from growing on it." Class act, all the way.

It looks less repellent close up in that person's hands than on the rock.

Tardigrades aka the Water Bear

http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/news9_0.jpg
http://www.panspermia.org/tardigrade.jpg
http://tardigrade.acnatsci.org/tardigrades/pic311.png
http://www.damnedct.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tardigrade.jpg

I think tardigrades are kind of cute!!

They are okay but then I think about drinking them and get a little weirded out.

Tardigrades aka the Water Bear

AKA "moss piglets" according to Wikipedia.

abbott otm the second one looks like a cute microscopic pig

http://bighugelabs.com/output/lolcat2420b7f308f36328c33e73298066a1ea4ae5bc9d.jpg

http://bighugelabs.com/output/lolcat670805fed23b68ebfd2bd8d78809c347e6375743.jpg

You get the idea.

I don't get the idea because I don't see any pics. :(

MAGGOT: XTREME CLOSE-UP

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/03/article-1299938-0AAB7470000005DC-411_634x587.jpg

MAGGOT: XTREME CLOSE-UP

No way! They've just been tiny inside-out Walruses this whole time!

New primes album?

Primus. Fucking iPhone.

Just as lovely as the Maggot, the water bear.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52392000/jpg/_52392786_c0089246-spl.jpg
Read all 'bout it!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/12855775

reminds me of http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/kotaku/2008/07/combineEliteNotCosplay.jpg

http://www.damnedct.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tardigrade.jpg

this tard's got pizazz

I don't get the idea because I don't see any pics. :(

Weird. Well they were lolwaterbears.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh tarantula hawk
http://i.imgur.com/eRLUH.jpg

I have so many feelings about that!

That is a tarantula hawk.

The tarantula hawk is relatively docile and rarely stings without provocation. However the sting, particularly of Pepsis formosa, is among the most painful of any insect, though the intense pain only lasts for about 3 minutes.[3] Commenting on his own experience, one researcher described the pain as "…immediate, excruciating pain that simply shuts down one's ability to do anything, except, perhaps, scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations."[2] In terms of scale, the wasp's sting is rated near the top of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, second only to that of the bullet ant and is described by Schmidt as "blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric".[4]

Schmidt Sting Pain Index!

Oh, duh, cozen identified it in the original post.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index

Is this index a joke?

1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.

2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.

2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.

3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic and burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.

poll

Flickr gallery of close up bug faces

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2353963/Frankenstein-rabbit-monster-spikes-sticking-head-draws-hundreds-thousands-spectators-online.html

http://i.imgur.com/FFwWXvr.jpg

poor little guy

http://i.imgur.com/jLnsphG.gif

what is that beautiful beast

idk but Ian Holm sure seems keen for me to get it back to earth in one piece

goblin shark i think

Yeah goblin shark. Thought extinct till relatively recently I believe.

No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_shark

Are the second teeth from an animal hiding inside a shark carcass maybe?

yes, but it's a shark too, so it picked pretty much the absolute worst disguise

We talked about it over on Weird Animals

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2013/10/600-grey-goblin.gif

Rodents that are attracted to poo: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131111-hate-poo-theres-good-reason-why/all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp0mXz_Qqp4

some pretty crazy shit here: http://gizmodo.com/this-deep-sea-fisherman-posts-his-discoveries-on-twitte-1790323479

original twitter feed w/ images (in russian) https://twitter.com/rfedortsov/media

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--svrwbNOu--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bcuihhbnenhzasfg09h5.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwKCReUWcAAg0Zp.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Czk4oHqWQAAn4FU.jpg