Do Wild animals Commit Suicide.

worldshown · 23 April, 2009, 02:26:28 PM

Quote from: "ThryllSeekyr"My next topic is animal terroism, and homicide.

Can they be as dangerous as our own human terroists?.

Are these animals terrorist enough for you?

They brought down a plane. That's usually good enough for the Americans.

//http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090422/twl-gaping-hole-in-plane-after-bird-cras-3fd0ae9.html

Pete Wells · 23 April, 2009, 04:10:14 PM

Animal suicides and gay wolves in one thread, amazing!

Roger Godpleton · 23 April, 2009, 04:57:53 PM

It might be worthwhile investigating how many animals are bio-mechanically capable of killing themselves.

Roger Godpleton · 23 April, 2009, 05:07:18 PM

Gah, worded that one wrong, obviously all of them can if they drown or jump off a cliff.

Bouwel · 23 April, 2009, 08:29:35 PM

QuoteMy next topic is animal terroism, and homicide.

Can they be as dangerous as our own human terroists?.

*straps 5 pounds of Semtex to a snail and waits to see what happens*

-Bouwel-

JOE SOAP · 23 April, 2009, 08:54:27 PM

Quote from: "Pete Wells"Animal suicides and gay wolves in one thread, amazing!

that's no way to speak abput peter.

ThryllSeekyr · 24 April, 2009, 08:37:42 AM

A salmon would merely need to spawn. Which what it is meant to do and then it's body falls apart.

What if you shove the the tail of a anaconda into it's own mouth after it's been starved for a while.

It's what Slaine did to a time worm.

Matt Timson · 24 April, 2009, 08:40:03 AM

The Legendary Shark · 24 April, 2009, 04:51:36 PM

//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtFeHlTuQgw

//http://www.animalsuicide.com/Stories.htm

//http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2008/09/29/global-warming-and-animal-suicide/

I've made myself all depressed, now. Where's me rope?

Kerrin · 24 April, 2009, 05:48:49 PM

Quote from: "ThryllSeekyr"What if you shove the the tail of a anaconda into it's own mouth after it's been starved for a while.

Now, that's a fascinating question. As far as I'm aware most of these large constrictors have extremely flexible rib structures and can swallow creatures of a far larger girth than themselves. This is going to be of an advantage to the aforementioned serpent as it proceeds with it's theoretical self-consumption. I'm going to take it as a given that the snake can keep breathing while it makes it's attempt, as you don't hear many reports of anacondas suffocating as they swallow a goat. Well, not in reputable news organs anyway. I reckon it could eat at least two thirds of itself before it pegs it like Elvis.

The Legendary Shark · 24 April, 2009, 05:58:24 PM

Quote from: "Kerrin"I reckon it could eat at least two thirds of itself before it pegs it like Elvis.

At what point would it realise it was eating itself, have an "oh, for f*ck's sake" moment and begin the laborious task of regurgitating itself?

Kerrin · 24 April, 2009, 06:03:37 PM

Well. It's going to have to be fairly f*cking demented in the first place. So I think it'd just keep going till it was well and truly f*cked. A Time Worm on the other hand. Hmm.

Mikey · 08 May, 2009, 12:39:43 PM

I'm late to the party as usual...

This thread rules the school! i've never in my life considered such questions!

Re:anaconda eating itself. It's a constrictor so normally gives live prey a squeeze before swallowing it. So would it try that leading to an (very big) snakey knot?

Gay wolves? Their howl would go "Arooooo would you look at her"

I'll get me coat.

M.

Dark Jimbo · 08 May, 2009, 12:44:44 PM

This is even better than Thryllseeker's 'cake-making' thread.

House of Usher · 08 May, 2009, 01:05:52 PM

Quote from: "ThryllSeekyr"A salmon would merely need to spawn. Which what it is meant to do and then it's body falls apart.

No it doesn't. After spawning, a salmon swims back downriver again to the ocean and has to swim back upriver to spawn again the next year. It's why some salmon get very big: they live a lot longer than one spawning season, in which time they grow a lot and put on a good deal of weight.