17 Wild Animal Superlatives
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- The strongest animal, the fastest animal, the animal with the longest jump, and many many more. Come check out some impressive records in the animal kingdom.
Did you know that the cheetah ISN'T the fastest animal on Earth, and it's not even close? These superlatives are shocking, funny, and sometimes, a little scary. Join host Erin McCarthy on her safari through some very impressive animals.
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A little known fact about penguins is they are terrible at bowling. See they don't have fingers to hold the balls.
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A little known fact about penguins is they are horrible at using chopsticks. See they lack opposable thumbs.
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Although I've often seen evidence of mountain lions , I've only seen one. I was driving on a unpaved road with beach on one side and a 8ish foot bluff on the other. It was hazy and at dawn. The shape in the road was indistinguishable, until it leapt onto the bluff, and I saw a long tail. It took me a few seconds to convince myself that there was no other animal it could have been.
You skipped the last (not least) category: cutest host.
But I applaud your choice!
Bet Erin rides like crazy
Pff, as if Justin is the cutest host! Sneaky sneak. But since there are only two (point five) current choices, it's not too difficult to become cutest host of Mental Floss..
You told us about the fastest creature on the savannah, and the strongest, but you forgot to mention the savannah creature with the greatest running endurance!
Shai Hulud!
Oldest animal bivalve and oldest animal invertebrate?
But bivalves are invertebrates
Get flexed on
In case you're feeling a little left out, don't worry:
- Humans are by far the best at throwing, both in distance and accuracy.
- We're also exceptionally good runners; Popular Mechanics estimates that if all species participated in a marathon, we'd come in fifth. (Admittedly the ranking was a bit wonky, because they compared the human record rather than average, and two of the top 6 species were specifically bred _by humans_ for high endurance.)
Also, we're the only animal with a true chin. :-3
Yeah, highly accurate throwing is kind of an animal superpower. To be fair though, only animals that are capable of bipedalism can throw at all, and not even all bipedalists can do that (no birds allowed). Mostly, throwing is limited to primates. It's not like we humans have a lot of competition.
Part 3
x In relation to bats:
o The first bat I remember seeing was the ones on strings on Sesame Street that looked silly, I think they would come out with The Count was part of the episode.
o Probably the next one I saw was in relation to Looney Tunes-like cartoon where the baseball bat-boy looked like an actual boy that was a bat!
o Probably the third time I saw a bat was when the classic vampires turned into bats.
o There were bats in our church and we had to create some type of trap for them, I remember how strange that bat urine smelled in the area where we were not able to catch them!
o My brothers and I used to watch the original Batman tv series.
o The Batmobile in the film Batman was the coolest car and everyone wanted it after seeing the film!
o The Batman villian that I hope makes it to the films is The Mad Hatter.
o I really hope that the Batman films bring back Poison Ivy.
o To be batty is slang for being insane (Collins Dictionary)
o B.A.T. in the G.I. Joe Universe are Battle Android Troopers
o BAT in the medical field can mean Blunt Abdominal Trauma.
x For shells:
o We used to joke about the conch shell that they used in the book Lord of the Flies
o Oysters Rockefeller is a famous food that is sometimes on films.
o Shells is slang for firearm bullets.
o Oysters are reportedly suppose to be some type of aphrodisiac.
o I remember putting those big shells up to our ears and hearing what we thought was sounds of the ocean.
o Clam Bakes are well-known in the New England area.
o Shells were one of the oldest forms of currency.
o The Black Pearl by John Steinbeck is about a huge pearl that was found that ended up being a curse, we read an abridged version of the story for high school English class.
o Katniss is given a pearl that Peta found in the shell in the film Mockingjay.
o Bivalve mollusks are one of the most popular seafoods in the world.
o A shell company is a near defunct company (Collins Dictionary).
† There is a company called Shell...if it went defunct, would anyone be surprised?
x For longevity and growth:
o Part of the reason I thought that giants existed in the past was because if Redwood trees could be so tall and live so long, isn't it possible that humans could too?
o It makes sense that being smaller and less visible helps some things live longer and safer.
o I once saw an interview about a woman that dreamed her entire life she was as tall as her father and she actually became 6'8,' it really made me wonder how the power of the mind could do seemingly impossible things like that!
o I have heard stories of people thinking they were going to die before a certain time in their life like 14-years-old and then it actually happens...did they create their own future?
o For people, it is my theory that maintaining an excitement for things lengthens a person's life even if it is lengthened by the amount of experiences (as opposed to standard measures of time).
x In relation to an island (i.e. like Greenland):
o I used to have daymares about creating order on some island for a massive amount of people that were going to move there with me.
o It was like I was living someone's narcissistic fantasy which, according to Dr. Todd Grande, moving to an island as one man surrounded by women is the most popular narcissistic fantasy (it just seemed stressful to me).
o There was some type of rule where spirit guides could incarnate into islanders as adults but they would become conscious like a child in an adult's body and would have no memory of any life before that...they were called Amnesiacs.
o Spirit guides were able to chose their body (before they entered it) though they would forget all of that the second they incarnated.
o I never knew where the bodies for the Amnesiacs came from and in a way it didn't matter...they were created specifically so spirit guides would have a human body for incarnation and would become the pilot spirit.
o The backstory to the island was that it was a man-made island that would potentially be a continent even though it was only about 30-60 miles wide.
o The entire operation seemed particularly busy and scheduled at all times, characteristics far different than what I would want in an island fantasy!
x In relation to froghopping:
o I remember the Mark Twain story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, we read that for English class.
o Frogger is the last official Sega Genesis video game.
o In the tv series Seinfeld George was trying to transport the arcade cabinet Frogger across the street and acted in the same maneuvers as the game...he eventually destroyed the cabinet before succeeding.
o The second of the ten plagues of Egypt was a frog invasion.
o There used to be a commercial with three frogs that said Bud Weis Er.
o One of my grandma's neighbors had a dog named Frog Dog, she also had a mini golf course in her backyard called The Funky Monkey.
o Kermit the Frog goes a lot of places in the film The Muppet Movie.
o In the film The Princess and the Frog they also go a lot of places (froghopping?;) )
x In relation to long-jumping frogs:
o How funny would that be if there was a remote-controlled mechanical frog that could jump really far, that would certainly get a rise from anyone that was scared of being touched by a frog!
x In relation to kangaroos:
o Do they ever store anything in their pouches other than their kids...like keys or a trapper keeper?
o Do they really like to box or is that just a silly stereotype?
o Has anyone thought about using them for a type of mail service called The Kangaroo Express (like the Pony Express)?
o What's up with that film Kangaroo Jack?
o Why isn't the offspring called a Roo instead of a Joey?
o Would a Kangaroo love or hate a trampoline?
o A group of Kangaroos is called a mob but are they sinister like a mob?
o Can Kangaroos do precision jumping like into the squares of a hopscotch arrangement?
x In relation to a mountain lion:
o They are spotted in Nebraska often!
o It is often referred to as a cougar, a name also given to women that pursue significantly younger men.
o Rocky The Mountain Lion is the mascot of the NBA team Denver Nuggets.
o Babies of mountain lions are called kittens or cubs and have spots for their first year of life.
o One would think that would be a great mascot for a hiking/scrambling club!
o Would a mountain living on a hill feel like a fraud?
The most efficient runners, surprisingly, are humans- through sheer endurance and not having to power four limbs on the ground. Even horses pale in comparison to humans,though horses are obviously better at hauling things.
I can't think of a single animal besides the human that can run nonstop for more than ten hours.
Part One
x In relation to worms:
o "Nobody likes me, everybody hates me. I think I'll go eat worms!" is part of a children's song called Nobody Likes Me.
o opening a can of worms- "you are warning them that they are planning to do or talk about something that is much more complicated, unpleasant, or difficult than they realize" (Collins Dictionary)
o We used to collect earth worms laying on the ground after it rained and put them in cans for fishing.
o The two most popular gummy candies in my area when I was growing up were gummy bears and gummy worms.
o March's Full Moon is the Worm Moon (because that is generally when the earthworms appear as the ground thaws in the Northern Hemisphere - ABC News)
o Wormser is the child prodigy who goes to college early and joins Lamda Lamda Lamda in the film Revenge of the Nerds.
o There is huge worm, somewhat similar to that in Dune, in the film Beetlejuice (the sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is coming out soon!).
o We used to joke that anyone that is eating an unusual amount of food has a hungry tapeworm in their stomach.
o The Tapeworm Diet was a fad diet where people would knowingly take a pill with a tapeworm egg inside so they would eventually have a tapeworm that prevents weight gain.
o I used to have ringworm on my leg (on my calf)...though it is not a worm but a skin fungus that itches terribly!
o Glo Worms are a famous stuffed animal released in the 80s whose head would glow after it was squeezed.
o Glow Worms Snakes were a popular Fourth of July firework.
o There is a worm called a "space slug" in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back.
o A bookworm is someone is constantly reading books.
o There is a unincorporated village in Nebraska called Worms, I have driven through or past there probably 300+ times.
x In reference to the color Blue:
o The primary colors for my community college (Southeast Community College) are two shades of blue.
o According to a study I once read, blue is overwhelmingly the most popular favorite color of respondents.
o To feel blue is to be "sad or depressed, often when there is no particular reason." (Collins Dictionary).
o For my Race & Nationality class (at Doane University) we read the Emmett Till-themed book Your Blues Ain't Like Mine.
o Bluey is the name of a popular Australian animated series (and the titular dog).
o Blue is a cat in the Jim Davis tv series U.S. Acres
o Blue is title character's name in the tv series Blue's Clues.
o Blue is one of the films in the Three Colors Trilogy.
o Blue is the name of a Joni Mitchell album that is often considered one of the greatest albums ever made.
o Blue is also the name of a Third Eye Blind album, the band (along with Eve Six) being the first concert I went to.
o "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is a song by Eiffel 65 and the #1 hit in Australian on my 20th birthday.
o Blue is the mascot's name of the Indianapolis Colts (NFL team).
o A Blue State is one that has a tendency to elect Democrats.
o Blue is the name of a raptor in the film Jurassic World (released the date I graduated nursing school on June 12, 2015).
o Perfect Blue is a anime psychological thriller by anime legend Satoshi Kan.
x I used to think that gigantic people, many of which were around ten feet tall or taller, were around until masses of much smaller people killed them out of fear.
o The only basis of think this was that there were myths of giants all over the world and that they would be the most likely to be killed because they ate most of the food and could easily overpower much smaller opponents.
o The male giants would have the advantage for mating as normal-size woman would rather have huge children if they had the choice.
o I saw museums on the internet (which apparently were pranks by users that like to mess with people) that had sections with giant's skeleton's that were 8-10 feet tall).
o I once had a daymare of a girl of the past that was as tall as a tree and spent her life feeling weird and being an outsider, for some reason she didn't have to sleep every night unless she wanted to.
o For a while I used to think I was gigantic!
† If you're wondering why someone would think such a ridiculous thing, there was some type of optical illusion that made it look like I was cramming myself in areas but the image of me would seem like a normal size to anyone around (actually very similar to the Taylor Swift music video "Anti-Hero" by Taylor Swift)
† Somehow I was able to see a perspective of physically looking down on people that were taller than me.
x Definitely the superpower I would choose, if I had the choice, would be the powers of Superman!
o Out of those powers, definitely superstrength would be my favorite!
o Though any level of superstrength would be awesome, it would be much more of a rush to have unlimited strength and be able to do incredible things like pick up air craft carriers and throw things into the atmosphere!
o I would certainly want to look superstrong too from an aesthetic perspective, with huge defined muscles!
† There is a character on the animated film Gen 13 called Caitlin Fairchild who gains a stronger-looking form when she gets angry, somewhat similar to the Incredible Hulk!
x In relation to Cheetahs:
o There is a cheetah name Gerda that is on a YT channel, she lives with another wild cat (a puma named Messi) and a couple!
o Chester Cheetah is the mascot of Cheetos.
o The Cheetah Girls are a musical group on Disney that has seemed to have gained a strong following over time.
o There was a Disney Film called Cheetah.
o There is a style of clothes that have cheetah prints.
o Cheetara is a fast character on the 80s animated series ThunderCats.
o There is a vehicle called a Lamborghini Cheetah, it is a 4x4 off-road prototype.
o Cheetah is the name of a nightclub that Jimmy Hendrix
o The animated character Marsupilami has the coat of a cheetah.
o To many, the villian Cheetah is Wonder Woman's most recognizeable rival.
x Speaking of fliers that can be trained:
o Noah's father is "The Master of Birds" in the film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
o Falconry is the art of training falcons.
o The book Falconer by John Cheever is a famous book about a professor that gets sent to jail for the murder of his brother.
o In the music video "Are you that somebody" by Aayliyah she catches a bird (hawk?) with that forearm guard that she wears.
o I once saw in a video that crows are extremely intelligent and can be trained if one has the patience.
o I try it would be really cool to have an owl that is trained because they are so pretty and are part of a lot of mythologies.
o Probably the most famous bird to train is the parrot, an animal that is tied to pirate fiction.
o For prehistoric fliers, I think it would have been awesome to train a Pteranodon and fly on them!
o For mythological (?) fliers, it would be so awesome to train a dragon and fly!
o For technological fliers, it would be so cool to train oneself to use that suit that Falcon (from Captain America) uses for flight!
x Speaking of poisons:
o Arsenic is one of the most famous poisons throughout history.
o Cyanide is something that fictional spies have on hand to commit suicide than than be captured.
o There is an urban legend that pop rocks and Coca Cola mixed together is poisonous to ingest.
o In the film Heathers, Heather Chandler is poisoned with drain cleaner.
o One of the few tape albums that my elder brother had when I was growing up was Open Up and Say...Aah! by Poison.
o Poisoned candy is still a common fear for parents on Halloween even though it is an urban legend.
o One of the causes of many deaths in the tv series Forensic Files is creative and sneaky poisons.
o The Evil Queen gave snow white a poisoned apple.
o Socrates was poisoned by hemlock.
o Cyanide was part of the poisoning used for the Tylenol Murders.
o There are people in the past who made poisonous perfume.
o Treavor Hanaway uses some type of poison pin on his victims in the film Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
o At the beginning of the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, the natives shoot poisonous darks at Indiana Jones.
x Speaking of Jellyfish
o There are often jellyfish on the tv series SpongeBob squarepants.
o Many of the robots on the Matrix film series look like mechanical jellyfish.
o My elder brother swam at Jellyfish Lake at Palau, a place where the jellyfish no longer had the ability to sting the swimmer.
o Jellyfish is eaten in parts of Asia.
o There is a book and film adaptation of The Thing About Jellyfish, a story about a girl who thinks that her friend died from a jellyfish sting.
o Jellyfish is a social-realist film about a young girl who is finding her talents.
o There is a glow-in-the-dark ice cream and beer that used jellyfish proteins.
o "Moon jellyfish," called moon because their round, white bodies resemble a full moon, are the most popular jellyfish kept as pets.
Part 2
x Speaking of loudest things:
o People often have to use ear protection (like eargasm earplugs) for concerts to protection their ears.
o Some people uncontrollably talk louder without even knowing they do it.
o Dogs tend to be scared of loud fireworks for Fourth of July celebrations.
o Some people move out of cities simply because they are loud.
o Classic alarm clocks (with the two bells) are know to be so loud there is no way to ignore the alarm when it goes off.
o I know some people who has been issued tickets for "Disturbing The Peace" because their parties were loud enough to get the neighbors to complain.
o In my hometown the sirens, which some say have been set because of WW2 practices, still go off at times like noon and six o'clock.
o Chainsaws seem really loud mostly because they are associated with so many horror things (like The Evil Dead films).
o We used to have a rooster and it's crow would wake us up at the same time every morning.
o Crying babies probably aren't that loud but they seem really loud when parents bring them to social events and they don't stop crying!
o For the verbal part of sexual intimacy, males tend to be more aroused and tend to value their female partners being significantly loud for their sounds of pleasure.
o We used to have peacocks near our house in Midvale and they seemed loud (maybe it was because their sounds were so unusual).
o Hardly anything seems louder than a surprise air horn!
x Speaking of the sperm whale...there was an unforgettable article in Rolling Stone Magazine that we used to talk about in college and grad school.
o There was a guy who had a 13.5 inch member (which was reportedly perfectly shaped and not deformed), an irregular feature that no one in his family had anything similar to it.
o He was an awkward guy with poor social skills.
o Though that is something that might be pursued in pornography or nude photos, he had offers but did neither.
o According to him, he had sex with between 1000 - 2000 people of both sexes and the intercourse always sounded detached.
o There were people that were giving crap about his giant member to his mom, a situation that I remember because that is so awkward.
o There was a girl in my graduate school who actually read the same article and for years talk about her experience with a guy that had a 13" member (her biggest fantasy?) and all the crazy dramas of those experiences.
o I think the reason the stories were so memorable was because it was like a drama that was so different from anything I had ever heard, with some parts seeming awesome and other parts really just seeming either depressing, disgusting, or a tragedy.
Yeah, but which species has the most followers on social? Humans baby!
What? It's cats? Of course it's cats. Silly me.
Wait! According to the WWF, some snow leopards can leap to 50 feet! Beat that, kangaroos!
The World Wrestling Federation ?
@@patriciaaturner289 World Wildlife Fund. In their educational vids for kids, they describe the "50 feet leap" and call them the long jump champion.
get a new host, cringe!