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It's really cool that we have opposable thumbs, clever minds and the power of speech, but if we had adapted one of the cool features some animals had, what would you have liked it to be? Leave a comment as to why you would want it :)
| Elephant trunk | 0 | |
| Tortoise carapace | 0 | |
| Porcupine quils | 1 | |
| Duck bill | 2 | |
| Carnivorous jaws | 2 | |
| Fluffy tail | 14 | |
| Cat claws | 10 | |
| Fish gills | 14 | |
| None (people would look silly with any of these) | 8 | |
| Other (tell me!) | 19 |
Night vision and the ability to turn your head all the way around. Climbing up walls would be fun too.
From the list it would either have to be carnivorous jaws or cat claws.
My own would either be wings or being able to live as long as the tortoise (I think it's them) that live for more than two hundred years.
I've always wanted a fluffy taiiiilll. Or wings. Can i has both? And big ass ears to go with the tail O.O
Its weird. If a single person had any of those features, the'd be considered a freak. But if everyone had them, your social status would be determined by how fluffy your tail is or how big your wings are.
I've always really, really wanted a tail. Like maybe a monkey tail, those look pretty useful. And I could whip people with it and stuff. Aww, man, I wish I had a tail so much!
Although, all the comments so far are way more impressive. I'm going to think and see if I can come up with anything better than a tail. A tail is just one of the only things which I felt like was sort of missing from my body, which is really stupid, but I just want a tail!
I wish that humans hadn`t evolved a vomit reflex, then our streets would be a damn sight cleaner, especially on sunday mornings!
Echolocation as in the type that bats and dolphins use.
Or the secret sense that sharks have to sense electrical impulses from other creatures.
There's a old children's book this reminds me of. If my memory serves me right, it's about a lion who meets other animals and wishes he could be like them (example: He wishes for butterfly wings so he can fly, Kangaroo legs so he can jump high, a elephant trunk so he can spray water all over the place,etc.) Eventually, he alters himself with so many wishes that he realizes that he's become a monster. He meets another lion who makes him realize that he was fine the way he originally was and he turns him back into a normal lion.
well self acceptance is a good lesson we should all learn. But thinking about the strange possibilities is always fun :D when I was a kid we played a game we called evolution, where at certain intervals we'd choose(pretend) one item to evolve (defence, legs, wings, horns etc) and it was a tactical game to see who would be the ultimate survivor, and in order to remember all of these we would draw our appearance, which is what your lion story makes me picture :) fun times!
Oooh, ever read His Dark Materials?
There are this race in one of the worlds they visit that kinda look like elephant horses but they have a triangular body so their legs are positioned oddly. They had these big hook claws on two of them and they would stick it into a giant seedpod and use it as a wheel.
Pretty awesome stuff
Oh no! Then, you'd be like one of the dreaded Wheelers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM0RFE3QGAU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBfmR4rEeHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVasO9ndqcc
I've never thought about their backs before. It may be hard to believe but they weren't the frightening thing about that film. There's a scene where Faruza (Dorothy) gets locked in the tower with Tock and Jack and they make a plan to escape. Jack tells them that Princess Mombi has this "magic powder of life", that makes anything inanimate come to life, and where it's stored. Faruza goes into Mombi's bedroom to retrieve the key and to her horror (mine as well) Mombi is headless. She gets the key without waking Mombi up and goes into this room where she has countless of sleeping heads that she stole from the female citizens of OZ!
The magic powder is all the way at the end of the corridor and it's stored in a cabinet with Mombi's true "head". While Faruza is trying to get the powder she ends up doing something that wakes up Mombi's true head and the other heads which start screaming unison. She tries to run out of there and Mombi's headless body comes and tries to stop her. Of course, she makes it out of there and manages with some difficulty to make to the sofa come alive. I was on the edge of my seat with that.
There's another scene where the Gnome King tries to kill Faruza and her friends and the her chicken lays an egg which rolls down his throat and kills him.
Yeah if only..
I actually watched a pretty interesting video recently on why animals could never evolved wheels
I watch something like that too. Wheels require an axle, which would require the animal growing separate parts from it's body or making use of it's environment in a very ingenious way to sculpt one out of wood or stone. Wheels also need roads, and building roads is too time-consuming and difficult for it to be worthwhile (especially when roads would be as beneficial for other species as the species which builds them).
May I also suggest a fire-breathing penis?
Wings, totally! How is "wings" not on the list? I want to fllllyyyyy so bad it would be the best feeling in the world! =^-^=
My favorite dreams are ones where I can fly. Having one puts me in a good mood for like a week straight!
Retractable genitals, so males don't have such a vulnerable spot on their bodies.