Interesting, I didn’t know that. How does that make them creepy though? If anything it just makes them even cooler than I had originally thought.
Imagine this You're walking hone back to your home, alone and feeling as though you're being watched you walk in the wrong direction, and you hear screams for help, you run into the direction of the screams but once you get there and see nobody or even blood you call out into the dark only to find a pair of glowing green eyes staring hungrily right back at you, and before you can even process what's going on. The massive cat lunges towards you before you can scream your throat is sliced clean open, leaving you to die in a pool of your own blood. But as you lay there, choking on your own blood, you see the massive cat smile and drag you into the you into the darkness.
Back to the question; my nomination is the Naked Bulldog Bat, although Naked Mole Rats would be another contender if they hadn’t become so familiar in recent years.
Ok this is all extremely dramatic, especially those last couple sentences. I honestly loved reading all the unnecessary detail you put into this story... I think you can rest assured that nothing like that is ever going to happen to you, me, or any other zoochatter First of all, most of us don't even live in the tiger's native range. I don't think a vicious tiger is ever going to randomly appear in the streets of San Diego or any other non-native city for that matter... unless one escapes from the zoo but that's also very unlikely. I mean there have been a couple instances of escaped tigers appearing outside of zoo grounds but only few have actually resulted in a vicious killing of a human. Also you said they can mimic sounds of their prey and last I checked humans aren't considered tiger prey so I doubt tigers can make the sound of someone screaming for help. Very few animals (parrots, orca, etc) can mimic/say human words and tigers are not one of those. I mean I get that tigers and other big cats can be scary but when I hear the word "creepy" I mostly think of appearance, so tigers are the opposite of creepy in my mind. Like someone else said earlier, aye-aye was the first species I thought of after reading the title of this thread.
The Naked Mole-Rat. In addition of its very strange and "alien" look, it has a behaviour similar to those of termites, ants and other social insects. Nonetheless I love them. Naked breeds of domestic cats, dogs, rats and mice look also very strange and creepy.
This handsome creature: Parnell's moustached bat or. . . Wrinkle-faced bat This thing has actually engendered nightmares not gonna lie. . . .
Ok I take it back, aye-aye don't even come close to this thing... I honestly wish I could unsee that... it is truly a very disturbing looking animal
I can't see anything wrong or creepy there. But since I do like bats... Given that male Centurio senex mask their faces during courting, they seem to be aware that their face isn't their best feature...^^
Fun fact- A dream just popped in my head that I was on a tour with batto showing me and some other relatives Welt der Gifte Salzburg and you were a bat human. Like a humanoid body but your head was your profile picture bat. This isn't an accurate description of you, right? Right?!
You should seriously stop binge-watching BTAS before falling asleep. Just because my PhD thesis was focused on bats, I'm no Dr. Kirk Langström. And my status in the local Camazotz congregation is a private matter...
I've never seen Batman the Animated series before. Is there a human with a bat head in it? EDIT: Okay, I see now. Weird. Television is weird. No more weird television in my system.
I’m still surprised that the Star-Nosed Mole (Condylura cristata) hasn’t been mentioned here on this thread before at all. So I am just going to be the first one here who will mention them. However, since there are currently no images of a live individual anywhere in the media gallery. I will instead showcase an image of a wooden statue, as seen in the file below. (Credit goes to @Giant Eland)
I apologize for bumping this thread, but I must say, the big, beady yellow eyes of the Black-Spotted Cuscus gives me the creeps!
