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For me:

  • Monkeys and apes: they look too much like humans and expose many terrible traits of humans.

  • Greyhounds: their thin long body shape look weird to me.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Horses.

Its an easily startled 900lb retard with sledgehammers for hands.

No its not majestic, keep it the direct fuck away from me.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was gunna ride a horse when I was real young. Was at a party or something cause there was a good amount of people there. I was next in line to ride said horse. The guy in front of me, being it was his turn, went to walk up to another horse. That horse was not a fan a bucked. Hoof straight to the side of the face. Down he goes.

Last thing I saw was him laying there motionless. Never learned anything else of it as everyone had to leave. Never tired to ride a horse from that day foward.

I'll chill with some cows though

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I wish I could find the original quote, but Sam Vimes, in one of Terry Pratchett's books, says something to the effect of "being one of nature's pedestrians. Never trust anything that looks at you with its teeth"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Horses are fucking douchebags. One ran me over back when I was 6 years old. I never forgave them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Like the saying goes, if one horse ran you over, they all did.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I've always found horses to be weird animals. They have personality, but have no expression outside of losing their shit. Their posture also looks uncomfortable as fuck, always being stood up, and being on small hooves despite being huge.

I've always said that they're prisoners in their own bodies.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Humans. They’re just horrible for so many reasons

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Humans, because they see themselves as superior to other animals.

This method of thinking is the root of much of humanity's problems.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Humans.

What a bunch of basterds

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, but how can you body shape shame my beautiful lady?!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

These teefs cannot be contained.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Monkeys are total assholes. They act just like 7 year old children would if they were high on sugar and there were no repercussions for their actions.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why some people find monkeys cute. They're so ugly and obnoxious! They don't even have the presence or majesty of great apes either. The further from humans on the evolutionary scale, the cuter primates tend to be IMO. By the time you get to lemurs, bush babies, etc, you've hit standard mammal cuteness.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm convinced like 95% of people that say they like monkeys have never interacted with one.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I hate how modern pugs look. I would love to launch them into orbit with my foot but I try to treat them like any other dog. It's not their fault they momma made them fugly.

E: Ye, we all know it was people.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Humans made them fucked up

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

FYI, the reason why humans look so much like apes is because humans ARE apes (specifically, great apes).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Dogs with blue eyes look absolutely psychotic to me for some reason, like it's indicative that they're the serial killers of the canine world or something. It's super unnerving. This doesn't translate to any other animal for me; for instance I think blue-eyed cats are gorgeous.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

But then you also have these

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Pandas. They are too dumb to be alive. Their diet mostly consists of plants that have hardly any nutrition, and can't be bothered to reproduce.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is a common belief thanks to terrible science comunication by journalists. I recommend the book The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife by Lucy Cooke. It's a fascinating read and has a chapter dedicated to how we've misunderstood and misrepresented pandas and sloths in the media.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Ducks and dolphins are the serial rapists of the animal kingdom.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

True. From "aww" to "nope" as soon as learning the truths about dolphins.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Squirrels. Cute as hell in the wild, not so much in my attic. They are tiny little destructive machines.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Their PR team is doing great work

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Moths, especially the big ones... idk, they are just insanely terrifying to me. I know they cannot hurt me, I know they are harmless, they terrify the life out of me

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Dolphins. Everyone wants to talk about sharks taking an annual toll on people, nobody wants to acknowledge dolphins will screw more with humans just for the lulz.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's that one guy that HATES sunfish.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

This was a wild read

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Spiders for the simple fact that I have been "conditioned" by my mothers behaviour to fear them, cause she freaked out at the sight of even the tiniest one.

They are incredibly fascinating creatures.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (4 children)
  • leeches. i watched some movie as a kid and leeches dangling over the heroes after they crossed some water scared me good.

  • those beach jelly fishes. nope. i get why they are there and i'd prefer to give them their space.

  • anything with those scaly shiny black and yellow hornet danger colors.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

The cockatoos of New Guinea. They know what they did.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I’m not a huge fan of dogs in general. They’re capable of unsettling amounts of violence and you have no idea if/how they’ve been trained.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I love animals in general but I don't want to look at opposums. Those wormy tails are terrible.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm scared of horses because their mouth is in their nose and I find it creepy with their huge teeth.💀

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