Cassowary. Giant dinosaur bird that will lunge at you get first with razor sharp talons. But looks cool and prehistoric. One of the few creatures that terrify zoo keepers as they are smart enough to be evil but not smart enough to be tamed
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Some predator that hunts people that you could escape from easily if you're moderately intelligent. We need to bring back natural selection with a vengeance. Maybe wolves.
Or how about it would be really annoying to annoying people. Like if zombies were pretty rare but also didn't bite you or kill you but followed you around in a constant light slap fight and stole from you like a sock from each pair or put holes in your donut holes or threw rocks at your house in the middle of the night but was totally invisible to police.
I would not want it murdering the slightly less intelligent than me without knowing that sliding frame of reference of what "less intelligent" could mean would eventually subsume me as a matter of fact.
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Nah, I don't want them annoyed. I want them gone. It wouldn't be a sliding frame of reference either. It would just be "animal that is smarter than people who are so stupid they become a problem for everyone else around them"
What a weird thread to bring eugenics into.
Is it still eugenics if wolves are the ones doing it?
You're the one introducing it.
This. Or a predator that cant smell vegans lol
They're not anywhere near my favorite animal, but if dolphins could survive in freshwater, it would be interesting to hear about all the interactions people have with them near me considering people have re-learned they have a language, even if it's more like 50,000-BCE-human-levels of communication. If any were integrated, I wouldn't mind going the extra mile to treat them as anyone else and anticipate them showing up.
if dolphins could survive on freshwater
Well, you're in luck cause these guys already exist
Yeah but I mean bottlenose ones. They're the ones which are being studied, the other species are to bottlenose dolphins what other apes are to humans. If you put a bottlenose dolphin in freshwater, they get all wrinkly before dying due to saltwater having the chemical properties they need.
Polar bears. It would be hilarious.
Tarantulas. We don't have any.
Pretending that theyβd have a good life here: koalas and elephants.
Platypus would be cool, or African land snails
Giant land snails!! They're soooo sooooo cuttteeee, but also unfortunately sooo destructive here.
That was incredibly strange, but it only slightly tarnished the reputation of giant land snails for me π
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I need sloths, hummingbirds, monarch butterflies, raccoons and orang utans in my life, please.
You do not want raccoons in your life. They are horrible criminal psychopaths that will bite you.
So you're saying they're more suited for political ambitions?
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red pandas.
also pandas.
samoyeds too.
cockatiels, elephant seals, blue whales and giant squids aren't bad either.
Hedgehogs or stoats. They're delightful little critters in their own ways I love them both
Nutrias. Oh wait, they're already here!
Humans! ..... oh no wait ... we already did that one
They wished for that hundreds of thousands of years ago, so be careful what you wish for
Hedgehogs. Damn cute and eat slugs and snails.
Idk