My go is for the Buzzard, it would sure as hell make desert trips and heat waves seem a lot less worrying and paranoiac.
Oh no, vultures are great.
For me—probably ticks.
Was looking for this before commenting. They are terrible creatures full of dissease. I’d pick them to be banished to hell instantly.
Then I could finally got hammocking in shorts without a full body inspection every evening.
If you scroll down a lot of ppl agree with us. Horrible little things. I’m in the midlantic and this year, everyone I know who’s gone camping or hiking has come home with at least one tick. Every. Single. Time.
Possums, in NZ.
Here they are a scourge. They’re introduced and outcompete or prey on native birds.
I thought you solved that by making coats, hats, scarves, etc out of them for sale in the Japanese market?
That is what they told me when I was there a long time ago anyway. Damn shame they are so destructive because they are adorable.
Yeah there is a niche payment fur industry. It’s supplied by hunters mainly.
Ours aren’t adorable, they’re diseased insane rabid demons.
Mosquitoes. If I’m allowed, midges too.
What are swallows etc going to eat?
Well if they ate all the muskitoes we’d let them be.
Humans or at the very least Epstillians
Cattle. That would cut down human land use by a lot (in the short term, probably not very effective in the long term)
Humans.
Here’s the answer I was looking for! I’m surprised I had to scroll so far to reach it. We are the source of most of what’s wrong with the world so I’m pretty sure the rest of the animals would vote us off the island too.
Fuck ticks.
Mosquito
I wonder what the world would be like without humans?
Ugh. Easy. The St Barnabus Mite (they call them Wringlers in the US, I think). Hate, hate, hate them. Nasty, relentless, ethereal, bitey little shitlords, and they’re so resilient they turn up everywhere. They can fuck right off.
Edit: Holy shit, it worked!
Sorry that’s fucking gross. OP wants to walk through a world of rotting meat and unscavenged carcasses. Seriously. Read up on what happened to vultures in India when they gave all their cattle Diclofenac.
Cultures might not be pretty but they are fucking awesome and entirely necessary. Why peeps gotta hate on the cleaning staff I don’t know.
I agree, but got different reasons.
OP went with “less paranoic” as their barrier of choice, whereas the “tick” and “mosquito” choices are actual posts that are dangerous.
Personally I fall in the mosquito camp. I don’t know if anything depending on them specifically. And even if there is, I’m ok with sacrificing them too.
How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths
Also vultures are beautiful.
My sweet girl Zsa Zsa.
And there is the King Vulture.
Bearded Vulture
Egyptian Vulture
King Vulture looks like a kid coloured it, just pure chaos.
😆
I will say, it does make me feel like I’m a bit on the boring side being fairly monochromatic.
Just need a glowup from a 5 year old and some paint!
Yeah, I think culturally we just don’t like things that remind us of dead things, and if a lot of scavengers are around, it means something’s dead or about to be.
I’m glad people are coming around to realizing how essential (and honestly really cool) they are, as much as I’d never wanna kiss or even smell one. 😉
Bearded vultures swallow bones, often shattered after they drop them onto rocks from great heights, but sometimes whole. They are so badass.
Very awesome! Some quick reading says the vibes are actually their primary diet. They’d often rather have the bones than the meat. Talk about a biological niche.
And it can chomp down some huge looking bones!
As others have said its a no brainer with man. Other species would still be in existence without us and the earth would be in a good healthy shape and maybe some more deserving species would evolve. Its a shame we can’t meet our potential and actually be helping the health of the earth rather than hindering it.
humans
We’re practically descendants from the simians so I think it’s time to devolve back to where we were moulded from.
Chicken!
Just to see how everyone would react.
Giraffes
