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Discussion in 'All Things Boats & Boating' started by kach22i, Mar 30, 2006.

  1. Boston

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    the story I read just scaled up the numbers and said what if

    the insects we do have that attain large size slow down because of circulation issues associated with a lack of lungs

    not to many trully large and fast insects thank all the gods
     
  2. wardd
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    avian respiratory systems are 4 times more efficient than ours
     
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    And woe betide the male assailant! According to folklore (and backed up by some circumstantial evidence), the Ratel goes for the ******* when it attacks large animals (bull Buffalo, Wildebeest, Waterbuck, Kudu, Man) that offered real or imagined provocation. In the Kruger Park, adult male Buffalo, Gnu and Waterbuck have been found dead from loss of blood after ratels attacked them in the *******.

    Sheesh bad badgers .....
     
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    Africa sure has some deadly critters. But America has the biggest, baddest land predator in the world: the Grizzly. Fortunately they don't have the tast for humans that the big cats do.
     
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    homo sapiens are the most efficient killers that ever existed on the planet
     
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    The bull ants are getting close to that size here. But we all mostly get along fine. The thing they live in fear of is the Achidna. It's completely impervious to and venom and digs up their nests for the larvae. Actually the big ants are well behaved, it's the smaller Jack Jumpers that are aggressive and kill people prone to hystemine reactions.

    The most dangerous insect in the world by death rate is the common honey bee.

    Ants rule the world!
    All you'd have to do with a super ant species is tell the Chinese that the queens when eaten promote virility or cure cancer and the species will be extinct in a couple of years.:)
     
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    ancient kayaker aka Terry Haines

    Sounds like Lorena Bobbitt ...
     
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    LOLZ :D :D
     
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    There's a name I haven't heard for a while. Has she bobbed anyone lately?
     
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    hoytedow Carbon Based Life Form

    This has lungs.
     

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    ancient kayaker aka Terry Haines

    If you scaled humans down to 2", the ants would have been domesticated, exterminated or a protected endangered species by now! Very nasty critturs, them humans, from all that I have read about them.
     
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    No we would have been over run by a far superior team working, one minded war machine ... we would be the endangered ones !!
     
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    hoytedow Carbon Based Life Form

    You're killin' me!:p :p :p :p
     
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    hoytedow Carbon Based Life Form

    I would name this one Bastogne.
     

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