Are humans the strangest, most complex creatures on Earth?

Because there is some pretty funky shit in the ocean . . .

I’m watching a sporting event right now and it just struck me how strange it is that 80 thousand people are gathered there, sitting patiently, and watching a fake conflict, so I started this thread. I’d like to know if humans, in your view, are the strangest, most complex creatures on the planet.

If not, post a picture of the peculiar insect, beast, fish or foul that takes the cake.

My take is that humans are the most complex, but i can’t tell if that’s ego talking. We think we are so superior to other animals . . .but what do you think?

…not the most complex, but certainly the most interesting!

There, I beat all you Fritz lovers.

Claimed to be a dinosaur, found off the coast of Japan at the bottom of the ocean.

What’d the Japanese do? They fucking ate it.

Forgive me all you Fritz Lovers, who is Fritz? What branch of what?

The fruit bat, not the most complex, but one of the funnier names. And hey, we gave it to him.

I also love the dance of the Flamingos

youtube.com/watch?v=tNntxSkFZLs

Mankind can come no where near the beasts of the deep!

I’ve posted this before but here it is again… http://eddie.mit.edu/~jc/humor/Squid.html

Biochemical automatons. No more strange or interesting than any other animal.

We are actually so boring and bored with ourselves that engaging in spectating of postured conflict is “entertainment”.

I think you have a giant squid fixation, young man! :laughing:

Parts of the huhman brain are very very very complex, maybe ‘more’ complex then anything else but thats hard to say and hard to gauge really. All organisms are really complex, and some ‘primitive’ creatures immune systems are so much more advanced then our own, i’m sure its pretty hard to say.

The truth is Magsj I am in fact a giant squid… :smiley:

In all seriousness though, I don’t think we can claim to be the most complex beings on the planet.

As for the strangest, well humans are the only species that kill their own kind for no reason, so we definitely have our claim to that throne…

I think we might be the only ones to masturbate or have sex for reasons other than reproduction.

An ogry of violence.

how can an automoton understand his own boredom :-k

there is a bird, i forget the name, but it commonly practices necrophelia, and hes not gender or species exclusive.

this bird wanders the jungle floor looking for dead things to shove its weiner in, assuming it has failed mates who are a little more living.

this can be seen as anti-reproduction, much like we can say about humam sexuality (homosexual, beastiality, masochism ect.)

masturbation can serve as a preperation for reproduction, but also serve as a substitute if you fail, which adds to the success of the population in general.

so i say let some creep wack off in the bushes, better to not have a bunch of mini creeps runnin around anyway.

and with all this explanations, we see how not strange we can be.

Dolphins have sex for pleasure, often homosexual sex as well.

The St Lucian parrot is the rarest parrot on the whole planet - they are so rare, they are priceless! The island is home to other rare birds, also priceless: due to rarity/being indiginous to only that island!

is the notion of dolphins raping humans a myth or plausible?

Eh…can’t say it’s plausible, but certainly possible.

According to King of the Hill, it’s very real.

possible yes, i know dolphins are friendly, but how friendly? i am sure that given the right cirsumstances any kind of interspecies mating could occur, but if you had to guess, what are the odds given you are within strike distance of a dolphin?

i would say 1/1 000 000 assuming the dolphin is not overly frisky

:laughing:

…raped by a dolphin: now that would be just sad!

I hear dolphins will have sex at the drop of a hat… with anybody.