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15 cute animals that could kill you

15 cute animals that could kill you

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anonymous
Alyssa 05/03/2010 17:07 PM

They don't mean cute in a literal, "these animals are cute as a button" they mean cute as in appealing to the eye. All of these animals so far have something about them that is appealing, like their vivid colors, and in most people it sparks their curiosity to touch them. So stop posting about how you dont think they are cute, its annoying.

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Guest 05/03/2010 01:22 AM

Neat looking, but "cute" miiiight be stretching it.

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Anika 05/03/2010 13:10 PM

Also can't say I'm charmed by cuteness. Is interesting though.

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Rhian 05/02/2010 05:00 AM

Is that the front or the back of that thing?

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dilly 05/02/2010 19:17 PM

I was just looking at some videos, and apparently they can swim backwards and forwards.

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dilly 05/02/2010 19:01 PM

I meant you can see it's eye on your left. They swim, sort-of, backwards so you might look at it and think it's left is your left, or you may say they swim backwards and see it's left as your right, so what I said before is kind of confusing.

But anyway, on your left you can it's eye, and on your right, you can barely see the other eye. It's half-oval-like body goes forward from your position, and it's tentacles are hard to distinguish because the picture is too close and and not angled.... More

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dilly 05/02/2010 18:56 PM

Unless they are deceptive, you can see it's eye on it's left. If you've ever seen a cuttle fish, the back end is is the rounded part with flowing fin-like thing the runs from one side all the way around it's back to the other side.

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dilly 05/02/2010 18:56 PM

Unless they are deceptive, you can see it's eye on it's left. If you've ever seen a cuttle fish, the back end is is the rounded part with flowing fin-like thing the runs from one side all the way around it's back to the other side.

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Hilary 05/02/2010 03:51 AM

I want to cuddle with the fish!!!

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Silly 05/02/2010 03:37 AM

Is it juz me or that thing are not cute...like at all...daa????

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hi 05/01/2010 23:30 PM

well it looks cool but how could it kill u

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panickitty125 05/01/2010 23:24 PM

bowser to me lol

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sorry 05/01/2010 23:03 PM

They think that thing is cute!!! I think that has got to be the ugliest animal alive!!

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Dana 05/01/2010 23:46 PM

Firstly, I find this fish adorable, but if that's all I had to say I wouldn't have messaged you to say it. No, the reason behind my message to you is that this is not, in fact, the ugliest animal alive. No, that possition is held my the Cuban Solenodon. And despite differing opinions, as you might point out, a blind man could see that as ugly as someone could think a cuttlefish was, the Cuban Solenodon is much uglier.

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Rhad 05/02/2010 01:27 AM

Google image it, then join me in eradicating this demon species.

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WTF??? 05/03/2010 14:39 PM

Dude!!

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ScorpioMaurus 05/02/2010 00:02 AM

I truly believe the Crown of Thorns (Starfish) to be the ugliest animal alive plus they are scary because they are aggressive and can move quickly I think around 18 to 22 mph. They are destroying the reefs where they live and efforts to stop that by morons only resulted in more of them equaling more destruction. Everyone know Starfish regrow limbs so the bright idea to stop them was to chop them up and kill them, Good Idea!

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Dana 05/02/2010 00:06 AM

"ugly' in the sense that people are talking about in response to this article is not the equivilant to "bad cuz theyre destroying their habitat and the people trying to stop them are stupid". Weyre talking appearences. Go look up the Cuban Solenodon. When I first came across this demon rat on teh web, i wanted to hide under my covers.

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toocute 05/02/2010 10:48 AM

well i did look at a picture of the cuban solenodon and it is cute! in face the feet were ugly but all together that creature was adorable

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Kim 05/01/2010 23:45 PM

That thing looks like..... Geez, I don't know what it looks like. 0_0 Looks like something chewed it for a while then spat it back up with bloody insides and.... What a mess of a creature.

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sorry 05/01/2010 23:03 PM

They think that thing is cute!!! I think that has got to be the ugliest animal alive!!

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Alec 05/01/2010 22:52 PM

Does this..this.."thing" even count as an "animal"?
Where's its face?

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Ally 05/01/2010 22:29 PM

How is this thing cute? It looks like something a dying cat would cough up...

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S.A. 05/01/2010 22:20 PM

er...that's a fish? it looks more like a picture of some rare alien on some other side of the galaxy. or something and how duz it do anything I don't see fins or flipper or gill...????? sheez the things people call cute!

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Day 05/01/2010 23:42 PM

that "thing" is cuttle fish its like an octopus so it doesn't need "fins or flippers" and it looks like that because cuttle fish can change their color and place their tenticles to look like a rock or pulsate their colors to distract pray

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Guest 05/01/2010 21:46 PM

i think it looks amazing! It is just cool. It looks undescribeable even though I just tried!

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Dave 05/01/2010 21:33 PM

You are one ugly mother f---er

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zapp 05/01/2010 20:58 PM

You forgot hippos. Adorable and mean.

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Karmen 03/23/2010 19:28 PM

The colors are beautiful, but it scares the living crap out of me.

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lullabies'! 03/19/2010 12:04 PM

i love how she painted herself with glowing red color with matching value effects... she certainly blooms undersea and then other fishes would say "oh, look at there! the talk of the town(or the seafloor) is blazing on her catwalk" and then the other fish would go "she's making the dead cold temperature here fiery, folks!" then finally she would reply "ahh, i am like WHY ARE YOU SO OBSESSED WITH ME??" :)!!

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noname 03/19/2010 09:35 AM

Enter your comments here - who & why did anyone decide to call this thing a "cuddle" fish???!!! AND - skin color does matter!!!

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money 03/19/2010 09:22 AM

that looks really cool!!!!!!!even if it looks bad ........who cares?

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hwere is its eyes n face??? 03/19/2010 08:44 AM

where is its eyes ??? wait i cn see it now !! it looks like a moose!!! gosh wiht a human nose ?? this freaks me out of my skin
!!!!!!

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Atli 03/19/2010 07:48 AM

The normal cuddlefish are actually very cute. This one looks like that, but bodypainted and on acid.

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nicolas 03/19/2010 06:45 AM

hey guys! who ever told that cuttle fish can kill you didn't do his research. The only way a cuttle fish can kill you is only when you eat it and got choked! Man, it may look ugly to you but not a killer. And it is just as smart as an octopus, these ones are nice to have as an aquarium pet.

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Guest 03/19/2010 06:31 AM

GOD if a kid saw that he would have nightmares

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Guest 03/19/2010 06:07 AM

Are u kidding me? This thing is ugly dude.

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Guest 03/19/2010 05:16 AM

Okay... It kind of looks like an abtract painting, do I see a rabbit or a duck? I can't really figure out what it looks like for some reason.

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Kendra 03/19/2010 00:42 AM

i love cuttlefish!!! ahhh i think they are adorable. with their w shaped pupils.
check out the angry cuttlefish video on youtube and skip to like one minute.
ADORABLE
of course, that breed isn't the Flambouyant one but still. kawaii desu :3

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V R 03/19/2010 00:29 AM

I wonder why there is no finger on this one? Could it be that it's so ugly that no finger dared to touch it?

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DeAn 03/18/2010 23:33 PM

Whats cute and whats not is subjective, its your own opinion sheesh

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Yaya 03/18/2010 23:26 PM

I think cuddle fish are cute have you seen the color displays they can do?! The face is the redish part with the flap things. I thought all the animals so far have been cute, as in they are all cool enough to fall under the cute catagory for me. Heck, I like animals and I find all sorts of new info interesting and the pic have been well done too.

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surfintheweb 03/18/2010 22:51 PM

Good point about the usage of "cute", Although, it seems like they're using it very loosely. The topic focuses on some cute creatures, but more on spanning different poisonous,harmful creatures. I guess they just wanted an interesting/catchy way to tie it all together. I think "cute" refers to interesting looking animals, or animals that are not as obvious as others when we think of harmful creatures.

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Annie 03/18/2010 22:10 PM

Do They Mean All Cuddle Fish Are Toxic :'(?

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shabangbang [not my real name] 03/18/2010 21:57 PM

who in this world would ever EVER think that thing is CUTE. it looks like a piece of coral and where is the EYES to that thing

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Nathan 03/18/2010 21:54 PM

I think its so ugly its cute

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Crissy 03/18/2010 21:48 PM

ok now i ignored all the otehr semi-ugly animals on here and found possible ways that some people might find them somewhat close to "cute." But seriously.... wtf???? a cuttlefish???? whoever decided to put that hideous thing on the list of cute animals that could kill you deserves to be killed by one. what the hell were they thinking???

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Amy 03/18/2010 21:43 PM

my first reaction: EWWW!

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None Ya 03/18/2010 21:39 PM

Who tha hell thinks that thing is 'cute'!?

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fagggg 03/18/2010 21:54 PM

Most of the animals on this list aren't even remotely cute. This list is pretty much a pile of ******** in the 'cute' aspect.

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Pfeffer's flamboyant cuttlefish

Don't try to cuddle this cuttlefish. Though charming and colorful, this aptly named fish's displays are meant as a warning. Although they rarely encounter humans, their poison is considered extremely toxic and can be as lethal as the poison of the blue-ringed octopus.
 
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