Current Events > are there animals that born a badass?

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Like the moment it come out of the womb or eggs or whatever it is already a ripping, shredding, BAMF murder machines instead of weaker, dumber version of the adult animal.

Or is it just the law of the universe that babies are dumb, smelly and weak?
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Certain sharks or some other aquatic animal eat their siblings before they're born I think.
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honey badger

eggcorn posted...

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I know about mantis shrimp, but baby shrinp are pathetic sub life trash, even if the adults are like the rambo of the ocean
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Snakes already know how to hunt by the time they hatch
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Donkeys
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Some tadpoles are larger than the frogs they turn jnto. Idk of that counts. Tadpoles are pretty harmless tho.

Caterpillars as well, and those things can fuck up your gardens too.
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Spiders

dolomedes posted...

aight, now you've got me talking neuroptera (the insect order that includes the lacewings and antlions) and they're mostly all badasses in youth.

some neuropterans spend their larval months living in rotting logs, in termite colonies. they produce a chemical (sorta like a pheromone) which disguises them from the termites, so they just sneak around eating to their heart's content.

others walk around on the forest floor, indiscriminately eating other small arthropods. they use mouthparts like these to do so:
https://photos.smugmug.com/Orders/Invertebrates/Orders/Neuroptera/i-cJrF7hm/0/d39cc20a/S/owlfly-larva-2_11305493356_o-S.jpg


some start life as tiny scrawny bugs that grab hold of a passing spider (much like a tick grabbing your dog as it walks through the tall grass), and it'll attach itself to the spider at a point where the spider can't reach it to remove it. there it waits until the spider makes an egg sac (or mates with a female, at which point the larval insect will crawl from the male spider and onto the female to continue waiting for an egg sac). while its spider host creates an egg sac, this insect will sneak over and get sealed up inside the completed sac (along with the spider's dozens to thousands of eggs!). once inside, the insect just eats all the eggs and then creates its cocoon to blossom into adulthood within the safety of the spider's silken egg sac.

and unlike its relatives the lacewings and antlions, adults of this spider-egg-eating insect continue to be carnivorous. they're like lacewings, but have mantis-like forelimbs (used to grab and hold prey for consumption)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qrdgprdL8xw/VCfJoVxMiOI/AAAAAAAAMqo/UEUO5zucw6U/s1600/mantidfly.jpg

awesome
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I totally forgot about antlions haha. I read in a kids encyclopedia decades ago that antlions are actually less harmful and murdery in their adult for. The larvae are the badass form.

I googled up to jog tje memory, and theu actually eat nectars and pollens like those puny butterflies and bees
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You mean " are there animals that are born badasses?" Duh.

dolomedes posted...

OH speaking of poor pathetic weakling butterflies, check out this sucka:
http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Liphyra%20brassolis%20larva%20DJ.jpg
that's a caterpillar! as seen from underneath:
https://www.natgeocreative.com/comp/MM6/865/735476.jpg

so, this bad boy eats ants (particularly the soft, tender, freshly-formed ones and iirc also eggs). ants are notoriously hard to deal with, as they are very aggressive and they swarm easily. this caterpillar has a hardened exoskeleton that is impenetrable to the ants, so it'll just wander into an ant nest, crawl down into a brood chamber or whereever all the little babies are stored, and go to town.

they have a tendency to undergo metamorphosis within the ant nest, which is p fuckin' dangerous. the first act of the adult insect's existence is to escape a colony of aggressive ants. but it's a butterfly so it's got those wing scales that come off when the ants try to grab it
https://www.jcu.edu.au/__data/assets/image/0009/96660/366086.3.jpg

https://www.jcu.edu.au/__data/assets/image/0009/96660/366086.3.jpg

Awesome the babies are pretty much an ant genocide tank and the adults run from them even if they got few tricks up theri sleeve.

Evolution is awesome
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Spherticus posted...

honey badger

Dammit, came to post this
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