Overated Animals?

[triplethesix]

Horses.

Yea I like horses, but I'm not obsessed with them. When I saw this topic, I knew I had to reply. The first thing that popped in my head were those girls in elementary school that only wore shirts with horses on them and wore cowboy boots smh. Sorry if I hurt someone's feelings.

true lol
i ride horses, i love my horse to death, i show him, but i’m not obsessed with horses. when people literally have a pasture pet and think that they are just so amazing because they have a horse in their backyard annoy me, a lot. i mean, i rarely ever wear shirts with horses or cowboy boots uwu

also why is everyone obsessed with wolves..? yes, they’re cool, but i can think of a ton of animals that are far more fascinating.

[chorizo]

Wolves.

[Herlock Sholmes]

LEMME LEARN YOU ALL A THING OR TWO ABOUT KOALAS OK

THEY ARE SO SO SO FRIKIN OVERRATED I SWEAR THESE LOOSERS SHOULD'VE GONE EXTINCT YEARS AGO
HERE'S WHY

1. Eucalyptus leave are u s e l e s s. But take a wild guess as to who evolved to specifically eat eucalyptus leaves? KOALAS. Eucalyptus leaves have so little nutritional value that koalas have to eat 600g-800g of it every single day. This alone takes 3-4 hours, then after that comes digestion. Eucalyptus leaves are poisonous, so koalas developed a digestive system allowing them to bypass the poison. Most animals would think with logic: "Hmm this plant is poisonous? Guess I'll just eat something else." But koalas have zero common sense and they just decided to keep eating poison until the species evolved to digest it. Unfortunately, it takes so much energy to digest, that these losers sleep. For 20 hours. I don't even sleep that long when school's out. So what's left for a koala to do in a typical day? THat'S RiGHt my dudes. Absolutely nothing. They just eat and sleep for the entirety of their lives.


2. Koalas are stupid. I'm not even over-exaggerating, this is a scientific fact; they literally have the smallest brain to body ratio of any mammal. Most animals have brains with folds (called sulci and gyri) on it to increase the surface area for neurons to transmit information, allowing for increasingly complex actions with more folds. Koala brains however, are smooth. No folds. They are limited to the most basic actions possible. Fun fact: If presented with a branch of eucalyptus taken off of the tree, a koala won't recognize the leaves as food, just because it's off the tree.


3. Remember what I said about their digestive systems adapting to eat poisonous eucalyptus? Well they're not born with that superpower completely set in. As babies, koalas have to eat their mother's feces because they don't have powerful enough digestive systems to eat pure eucalyptus yet. Disgusting.


4. Koala populations are overrun with chlamydia (an STI). In some areas, as much as 100% of the local population of koalas have chlamydia. Female koalas will mate with pretty much anyone, they don't give a damn. Males will fight at random with other koalas, for some reason. Their children eat their poop. All of this comes together in a perfect storm for transmitting chlamydia, as female will mate therefore transmit easily, males will crawl around with open wounds from fighting allowing easy passage for the STI, and young koalas will contract the chlamydia pretty easily through consumption.


5. Not really a valid reason to hate them, but HAVE YOU HEARD THEIR MATING CALL?
https://youtu.be/ocIR6B-YtYE


Sorry if you liked koalas before reading this.
If you still like koalas after reading this, well... you have weird taste.

[Social Anxiety]

CATS, I SEE WAY TO MANY OF THEM, I'M SORRY.

It's just a fact, and sometimes, they really do make me sick.

[IdiotAlligator]

Giraffes, they crush rabbits for amusement.

[mynameisbacon]

Wolves.

Like, they're cool and all, and I LOVE THEM TO DEATHHH

I LOVE SMMMMMM

but yea they're pretty overated

[salteze]

llamas :p

[resurrected]

llamas :p

No, absolutely the Blobfish

[bostonlobstah]

I love all animals ( well, almomst all animals), but wolves and also cats are way overrated.


Maybe penguins too?

[ghostmaker]

three words.

lucas. the. spider.