The most amazing animal?

[Nimos]

This is not about which animal you like the most, but rather which one you consider the most amazing in regard to its capabilities. (Humans not allowed )

For me, I think it will be the octopus. Besides its crazy ability to change color, it is probably also the animal that demonstrates the closest thing to being intelligent that there is, despite having evolved in a completely different direction than us.

What animal do you think is the most amazing?

 

[SalixIncendium]

This one, because it can play the drums...

 

[Eddi]

My favourite animals are the pinipeds: seals, sea lions and walruses

I think they are cool because they are very cute and good swimmers

I love their big deep watery black eyes

I can do a good seal impression too

There is a breeding beach in rural Lincolnshire called Donor Nook where you can see the mothers and babies, when the seals are not using it the Royal Air Force use it as a bombing range! So it is not safe for humans but no seal has ever been blown up

I have also been to the seal sanctuary in Cornwall where you can see them close up, in 2006 I sponsored a sea lion there named Carus but he had since died, he was a big and magnificent creature

If I ever go to California I will be sure to see the sea lions who live in a harbour there

 

[libre]

I can't for the life of me remember what species the bird was but I remember visiting the Montreal biodome ~2013ish and there was this bird that was walking around undoing the shoe laces of tourists. Oftentimes, sneaking up on the same tourist 3 or 4 times.

I have never before and never since seen an animal so dedicated to inconveniencing humans, so it would have to be my top pick.

I did find a vlog of one of the birds in question, can anyone ID the species? :

.

 

[Twilight Hue]

This is not about which animal you like the most, but rather which one you consider the most amazing in regard to its capabilities. (Humans not allowed )

For me, I think it will be the octopus. Besides its crazy ability to change color, it is probably also the animal that demonstrates the closest thing to being intelligent that there is, despite having evolved in a completely different direction than us.

What animal do you think is the most amazing?

The octopus is a great selection.

To add some more I find .....

Tardigrades - sheer endurance

Green slug- half plant/half animal

Biological viruses- not alive but not dead either.


Turritopsis dohrnii - immortal jellyfish


....at the top of my list of amazing animals.

 

[We Never Know]

This is not about which animal you like the most, but rather which one you consider the most amazing in regard to its capabilities. (Humans not allowed )

For me, I think it will be the octopus. Besides its crazy ability to change color, it is probably also the animal that demonstrates the closest thing to being intelligent that there is, despite having evolved in a completely different direction than us.

What animal do you think is the most amazing?

Just as much weird as amazing

Leeches have 10 stomachs, 32 brains, 9 pairs of testicles and several hundred teeth.

10 stomachs, 32 brains: A visit to a leech farm

They were once used to treat everything from headaches to strangulation, and leeches are still a vital part of surgery

gulfnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[ChristineM]

This is not about which animal you like the most, but rather which one you consider the most amazing in regard to its capabilities. (Humans not allowed )

For me, I think it will be the octopus. Besides its crazy ability to change color, it is probably also the animal that demonstrates the closest thing to being intelligent that there is, despite having evolved in a completely different direction than us.

What animal do you think is the most amazing?

Octopi are wonderful
I've heard said that within a few thousand years pigs and corvidae will be entering their version of a stone age.
Many of the great apes and some birds already use tools.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I can't for the life of me remember what species the bird was but I remember visiting the Montreal biodome ~2013ish and there was this bird that was walking around undoing the shoe laces of tourists. Oftentimes, sneaking up on the same tourist 3 or 4 times.

I have never before and never since seen an animal so dedicated to inconveniencing humans, so it would have to be my top pick.

I did find a vlog of one of the birds in question, can anyone ID the species? :

.

I like that. Heh.

 

[Viker]

Corvids. Especially ravens and crows.

 

[Twilight Hue]

It's not that it's really out there , but there is certainly a fascination with watching our evolutionary cousins walk around like we do.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Corvids. Especially ravens and crows.

They give a whole new meaning to bird brain.

Those birds are incredibly intelligent.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

I can't for the life of me remember what species the bird was but I remember visiting the Montreal biodome ~2013ish and there was this bird that was walking around undoing the shoe laces of tourists. Oftentimes, sneaking up on the same tourist 3 or 4 times.

I have never before and never since seen an animal so dedicated to inconveniencing humans, so it would have to be my top pick.

I did find a vlog of one of the birds in question, can anyone ID the species? :

.

I once came across a magpie while visiting the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, England, that simply would not leave my shoe laces alone -- even when I was trying to walk! I found it very amusing and quite delightful, actually.

Like Nimos, I very much like Octopi, but am also rather fond of cuttlefish, especially when they are being hypnotic.

 

[The Hammer]

Corvids. Especially ravens and crows.

Some of my favorites too. They are so damned smart. They remember faces too. So don't **** them off

 

[Twilight Hue]

Just as much weird as amazing

Leeches have 10 stomachs, 32 brains, 9 pairs of testicles and several hundred teeth.

10 stomachs, 32 brains: A visit to a leech farm

They were once used to treat everything from headaches to strangulation, and leeches are still a vital part of surgery

gulfnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org

That and octopuses have 9 brains although compared to 32 brains ......

 

[Rival]

Honey badger.

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[Secret Chief]

This is not about which animal you like the most, but rather which one you consider the most amazing in regard to its capabilities. (Humans not allowed )

For me, I think it will be the octopus. Besides its crazy ability to change color, it is probably also the animal that demonstrates the closest thing to being intelligent that there is, despite having evolved in a completely different direction than us.

What animal do you think is the most amazing?

Damn you, I was going to say octopus! Have you read

Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness​

by Peter Godfrey-Smith?

If not, you may find it interesting.

 

[Secret Chief]

Some of my favorites too. They are so damned smart. They remember faces too. So don't **** them off

In our new house we get visited by a crow. One scary mother. The cats avoid it, probably with good reason.

 

[Eddi]

Corvids. Especially ravens and crows.

In the town where I is there is a place where people feed the ducks with bread and the jackdaws swoop down and take the food intended for the ducks, you can tell they're clever just by watching them

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Damn you, I was going to say octopus! Have you read

Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness​

by Peter Godfrey-Smith?

If not, you may find it interesting.

Can't speak for @Nimos, but I've certainly read it. Excellent book, very interesting, and I encourage others to read it, as well.

 

[We Never Know]

That and octopuses have 9 brains although compared to 32 brains ......

Interesting that none named here made this list...

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