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Hmm...

[fluffy] are cute.

Sharks have been the ultimate predator of the sea for some 300 million years.

Ants work together almost mechanically.

There are those tiny creatures that can live pretty much everywhere but Jool's surface (get it? Jool has no surface...)

Dolphins and whales have something very much like language.

Humans have proven capable of breaking pretty much every well-established natural process involving life on the planet.

[Anything that lives at the bottom of the ocean] Did I mention there are snails with shells literally made of iron down there?

For me, the question of picking a single favorite animal is hardly trivial, because there are so many really cool ones. However, I can answer the opposite without hesitation:

I hate wasps.

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TARDIGRADES FTW! 

*WALL OF TEXT*

They are able to survive extreme conditions that would be rapidly fatal to nearly all other known life forms. They can withstand temperature ranges from 1 K (−458 °F; −272 °C) to about 420 K (300 °F; 150 °C), pressures about six times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for a human, and the vacuum of outer space.They can go without food or water for more than 30 years, drying out to the point where they are 3% or less water, only to rehydrate, forage, and reproduce.

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Greenland dogs (caveat, see below). Our family has had them since long before I was born and we've had so many personalities among the dogs it still baffles me from the grumpy, not entirely safe for kids, to the most fun loving jesters who can't get enough of having people around. And they look awesome.

Apart from that, I follow cubinator's notion that there are so many amazing animals it's impossible to really pick one. Can I pick a few hundred thousand? I don't even hate wasps. Just keep those spiders away from me.

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15 minutes ago, RizzoTheRat said:

I'm with you on the Platypus for cuteness, but you're going for badass it's got to be the Honey Badger.  They've been known to attack Rhino's FFS! 

Meerkats are cool but not very impressive without the rest of the family. And Honey badgers are indeed badass but they're so ugly. If you want truly baddass it has to be the Stoat. Less than half a kilogram of furry cuteness capable of taking down rabbits ten times it's own size.

 

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7 hours ago, Aperture Science said:

I've seen videos of that guy punching aquarium glass, his claws are really powerful.

You are not wrong. His claws accelerate as fast as a 0.22 rifle round (~10,000G's), reaching approx 10-20m/s in a couple of cm. Impact in water causes cavitation, which on collapse produces [very briefly] temperatures of several thousand (!) degrees, causing a visible flash of light (usually only visible in high-speed photography). The collapse of the bubble also produces a second shock which is significant in its effectiveness at crushing things, it can be from 50-250% as strong as the initial impact.

He also has some of the most advanced eyes in the animal kingdom, with 3 seperate sensing regions in each eye - giving trinocular vision and depth perception in a single eye. They have 16 different types of colour sensitive "cone cells" in their retinas, compared to 3 types for humans. They can also see into the UV range and can detect different polarisations of light.

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On ‎23‎/‎02‎/‎2016 at 11:35 AM, Tex_NL said:

Honey badgers are indeed badass but they're so ugly

Honey badger doesn't give a $*&# what you think :D  Stoats, weasels and ferrets are all quite cute as well as being badass though.

 

My wife's obsessed with penguins (to the extend to having been on holiday to Antarctica and applying for a job with the British Antarctic Survey) and she's slowly convincing me of their cuteness.

 

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1 hour ago, Kuansenhama said:

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I like beetles with shiny shells.

Me too. I find all sorts of arthropods fascinating, even though I keep my distance to some. Once, in second grade, an entomologist came to my school and gave a presentation to my class where he showed us various live exotic arthropods, including scorpions, hissing cockroaches, and tarantulas. We were seated on the floor in front of him, and when he took a giant millipede from the box literally every kid screamed and scooted as far back as possible, except me. I stayed right where I was, in the front row. I thought entomology was absolutely fascinating, and if I hadn't already been so inevitably drawn towards space I would want to be an entomologist.

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