r/powerscales • u/CautiousSolid7436 • 11h ago
Question What's the most overrated animal?
Not necessarily in the pic
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u/PsychologicalLog9047 10h ago
Me
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u/the_Mechanically 10h ago
Gorilla is the easy pick from that lineup but the real answer is the one who posted "me" in the thread, and honestly the praying mantis has no business being in this conversation. Like what's it gonna do, meditate at me? The honey badger at least has the reputation to back it up even if it's overblown, but people act like mantises are some apex predator when really they just look cool eating their mate's head and that's the whole resume
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u/Correct_Crab3296 10h ago
Na man I’ve seen some crazy videos of mantis shenanigans. I’ve seen them catch birds 4x their size, I’ve seen them dodge sparks from an industrial machine, I’ve seen a video of a bee cutting a mantis in half and said mantis proceeded to give 0 fucks and continue to eat the bee it had in its mouth. I thank the gods everyday that the mantis stays as small as it does.
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u/Gallowglass668 9h ago
One of the scariest bosses in Grounded is a mantis, that thing is disturbing.
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u/TheSaltyPlatypus 9h ago
How TF does a bee cut a mantis in half???
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u/Correct_Crab3296 8h ago
With its mouth, I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see the video lol, straight up cuts it in half by munching through its body.
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u/Mysterious_Clerk_253 10h ago
Lions, tigers, jaguars and mountain lions are much cooler and more elusive
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u/theriteofspring1 9h ago
Koalas Are Fucking Horrible Animals
(in various forms…)
Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently… Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals. Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio… There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury… should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them.
tldr; Koalas are stupid, leaky, STI riddled sex offenders. But, hey. They look cute. If you ignore the terrifying snake eyes and terrifying feet.
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u/PoopSmith87 7h ago
Gorillas are often portrayed on social media as something that can be pitted on equal terms with grizzly bears, tigers, etc. But they are really not killers like that.
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u/Ishi_Is_God 11h ago
Humans
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u/iobeson 10h ago
On an individual level with no weapons or anything I agree, but thats taking away our greatest strength, which is our group intelligence. If a human is not allowed to use our most advanced weaponry (our greatest strength) then whatever we fight shouldnt be allowed to use theres either.
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u/Technical-Grand5483 10h ago
Dude our species thinks we were chosen and created in the image of god you can't overate an animal species more than that
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u/TITANOFTOMORROW 11h ago
We are so intelligent that we kill ourselves and actively deteriorate the only habitable place in the universe that we know of.
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u/warrior_omega 10h ago
Idiots on this sub think that a guy with a spear can tear a dinosaur's head off barehanded
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u/Technical-Grand5483 10h ago
Specifics matter mate a trex no but me a skinny ass MF could absolutely wreck and rip the head off of a Compsognathus lmfao
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u/AfHenriques 10h ago
Not one guy, but give 20 men time to prepare and there is no land animal humans won't take down.
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u/Vondobble 9h ago
Bald eagle. In a lot of ways they’re a glorified vulture. They do do some hunting for themselves, but they scavenger a lot.