What animals are fearsome enough to terrorize a small town? How

>>50918855
wolves are a classic, though really any semi-dangerous animal can be a bother if there's enough of them.
Especially if they're in the way of something the village needs, like crocodiles in the only freshwater stream nearby

>>50918855
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan
A single wolf will do.

>>50918903
Wasn't that a boar?

>>50918855
A flock of Canada Geese

Any predator large enough to consider humans prey.

Lethally venomous animals with bad temper.

Large amounts of insects.

Beefing them up to be real terrors would probably mostly involve making them physically mroe powerful so that even with every able bodied villager together and a willingness to accept some losses it's uncertain if it could be killed, as well as a generally more aggressive behaviour where it's it's actively stalking the place.

>>50918855
Calydonian Boar
Nemean Lion

One time the DM had a champion belt boxer kangaroo that terrorized an entire city. Fortunately he wore boxing gloves so did nonlethal damage.

>>50919242
> "Boxing gloves are there to protect your opponent" meme

>>50919264
>champion belt boxer kangaroo
>you call unrealistic on the gloves

>>50919264
Boxing gloves do nonlethal damage.

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Make them immune to fire.

>>50918855
army ants
ants can be grown *with science* to be a lot bigger, up to 200% bigger. imagine driver ants mixed with jumping ants/bulldog ants.
Now im agine waking up covered in them.

>>50919365
they protect the hand of the person punching more then they protect the person being punched.

Boxing became more dangerous after gloves were introduced as they let people punch harder without fear of hurting their hands.

>>50919528
It warms my heart that you know about boxing gloves, but it may as well be pointless unrelated knowledge, since regardless of reality, by the system rules, boxing gloves deal nonlethal damage and the system rules are the only thing that matters.

ONe Elephant can wreck a small village pretty good. IF you need to beef it up you could make it a magical elephant that blasts sonic waves from its trunk and has telekinesis, I guess. OR you could make it twice the size of a normal elephant and it just steps on huts and eats everything remotely edible, including people.

>>50918855
Mountain lion or a lynx would do a good job at it.

Bobcats are too small/adorable to warrent a major threat besides a lost eye or finger.

A boar that's grown excessively large, like 5 feet or more at the shoulder, would be enough to terrorize a town. Shit, that sounds cool for a low level commoner type game.

>>50918855
Bears.

>>50918940
>A flock of Canada Geese
He said terrorize, not slaughter

>>50918855
I've found the idea of a house cat with the fiendish template terrorizing a town as part of a level one adventure entertaining.

>>50919387
> Flying insect swarm that can travel over seas by resting on each other's corpses floating over the water and eating each other mid-air.

Fuck locust.

>>50920679
A huge boar would indeed be pretty terrifying.

>>50920687
Also this. Imagine a double-sized polar bear.

>>50918855
My suggestion: crocodiles. Especially in the middle ages when the river was where most people got all their water from. There's no avoiding its hunting grounds. They already can and do hunt humans, and in parts of Africa there are still to this day villages terrorized by them. Plus, just imagine trying to kill it with the weapons you'd have access to in a small medieval town.

Just scale it up a bit and maybe make it a bit craftier than normal and you'd have a pretty tough time dealing with it.

Bear with aids

>>50920995
> Who is Gustave the Crocodile.

>>50920711
Fine, a single goose

>>50918855
Any normal woodland animal with rogue class features.
Stealth wolf.
Boar with lockpick.
Woodpecker with sneak attack.
Skunk with hips.
Fox with bluff.

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>>50921284
>Boar with lockpick

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>>50921284
>Boar with lockpick.

>>50920993
Jesus krist for real

>>50921284
>Boar with lock pick
Oh my god Can you fucking imagine that shit

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>>50921284
>Boar with lockpick.

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>>50921284

>>50920679
Just knowing that any pig is only a couple of weeks away from going full boar whole hog? is enough to scare me

>>50921284
Holy fuck this is amazing
The fuckers I play with won't know what to do

A large wolf.


THAT CAN OPEN DOORS!

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>ctrl+f
>emus
>nothing

For shame /tg/

>>50922286
seconding this holy fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLDK8PuAuI&list=PL446kBb3Vy-_kpCrZllnHfJib2nEFnHu3

dem cassowary claws. 9:30 for claw action.

>>50921284
The legend of Oinkblade shall be relived!

>>50918855
Bears or any large cats will do.
I'm a fan of giant owls. Imagine being out out late at night and being afraid you might get snatched away by cold talons falling silently from the sky. Or the rumors that might spread after people keep disappearing, sometimes just with a gust of wind when others have their heads turned.

Big Cats are classics for this, sometimes scaling up to terrorizing entire regions. You've got shit like the Tsavo maneaters who ate something like 30ish people during their little buffet.

You really want to take a go at it go Leopards though because Leopards are bastards.

See-
The Rudraprayag Leopard (kill count 125)
The Panar Leopard (Kill count 400)

The Rudraprayag Leopard did some straight up Slasher Movie killer shit to like an instance where it broke into a pen housing a bunch of goats, bypassed all the goats, and ate the goatherder.

Tigers are another good one but IIRC statistically tigers are the big cat most likely to fit the 'got hurt and can't hunt it's old prey anymore so it goes maneater' stereotype which undercuts their threat a little...

Then you remember the 436 people killed by the Champawat Tigress.

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>>50918855

>>50918912
General consensus was that it was a wolf, though some assert it was a hyena escaped from a menagerie.

I plan to introduce a large bear into my game that one of the (noble) party member's peasants have developed a real terror for. At first it was just a nuisance, taking and mauling livestock, but it started killing people not long after that. Attempts to hunt it have largely been foiled due to how the beast seems uncannily intelligent, and it killed one trio of trackers sent after it outright. Now folks are on the edge of revolt, since just the other night it burst into a peasant's cottage and slaughtered him and his entire family - it didn't even eat them. The locals are beginning to think it's some sort of vengeful daemon.

Bears are common threats to rural communitites as they get attracted to garbage.

Coyotes were increasingly becoming a problem near the outskirts of the city I lived in. Development pushed out a lot of prey animals, so the Coyotes started preying on animals commonly found in cities, namely small dogs and housecats. It'd be less of an issue if they had a taste for squirrel, though. Those things are fucking everywhere.

There have been insect issues as well. I've heard of people moving out of places due to things like bees and wasps making hives inside the walls, ants and cockroaches... Spiders might be a thing... I'm assuming you're doing fantasy, so just tack "Dire" onto something and make it huge.

>>50922842
>It'd be less of an issue if they had a taste for squirrel, though
I strongly suspect that squirrel tastes godawful, because nothing seems to eat it willingly

>>50922565
Great book. The story about him killing a bear with a rock and hachet is my favorite. Robin is best dog.

>>50923244
Tell that to Mississippi

>>50923244
I think it's because they're always able to run to the trees. They seem like the sheer numbers would attract more hawks and owls, but I think those birds are better at attacking mice and other ground-lurking critters. Trees are tougher to navigate.

Something that hunts squirrel, but ignores cats and dogs... that's what's needed.

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>>50923386
>>50923244
At least in europe we have less of an issue with squirrels everywhere thanks to this little murder machine.

>>50923386
Cats and dogs hunt squirrels.

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>>50918903
>>50918855
I agree, a single wolf will do
Particularly if it it is clever enough to evade traps and snares.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobo_the_King_of_Currumpaw

This

Swarms of strangely croaking frogs that explode when stepped on.

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>>50918855
Dire kangaroos

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>>50922393
>Giant Owl hunting you at night

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>>50923506
Shit forgot my pic

>>50918855
>Bears
>Alligators
>Boars
>Wolves

Just make them territorial and aggressive

>>50920993
>>50921421

Google is your friend.

Either:
+Dire
or
+Plauge

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>>50921172
Dire Goose

>>50919387
>Make them immune to fire.
Make them SPREAD fire

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>>50918855

Dire anything

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>>50918855
This, giant badgers are terrifying.

>>50923588
A single dire goose versus the halfling militia of a small village, who wins?

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>>50923633

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>>50921284
>Skunk with hips.

>>50923244
Squirrel is not that bad. Just very gamey.

T. southerner

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>>50918855
Birds of prey big enough to snatch a person.

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>>50921284
Include me in the screencap

>>50922202
Full bore.

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Caucasian shepherds with rabbies.

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Those motherfuckers can disembowel with a kick.

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>>50923640
>>50923588
Deep Goose

>>50923640
Nobody.

>>50918902
One winter a wolf pack killed about 40 people in Paris. It was in 1400something I think..

>>50924114
>it has 5 attacks
>75HP
>CR2
I don't think so

>>50918855
Hippo

>>50918855

A wolf, a boar, a lion or big cat, a wolverine, a bear can do the trick. If coastal or on stilts, an angry whale.

Not much is needed. Desperation, hunger, or just plain ol animal bloodlust can drive entire regions or nations to terror.

Have a large terrestrial bird like the ostrich/emu already suggested, but make it a bird of prey that stomps its victims to death like the secretary bird.

>>50924561
Secretary birds also apparently wait near fires to kill any possible food that's trying to escape

-Bears, no explanation needed
-Wolves, same as bears plus they have a history of terrorizing small towns/villages.
-Boars, these fuckers are aggressive and they can get up there in terms of both weight and size.
-Large predatory birds, there are stories about massive eagles and other such birds in America and elsewhere where they snatch up small children.
-Kangaroos, Just watch a video about what these guys are capable of.
-Sharks, just watch Jaws and other shark movies.
-Emmus, as was stated before.
-Tigers and Lions, Very common in Africa and India where these big cats attack people.
-Hyenas, sort of like wolves
-Dingos, "Dingo took my baby" was real and there has been a few times where Dingos have supposedly been found with human bones in their bellies.
-Hippos, most deadliest animal in Africa
-Alligators/Crocs, self explanatory
-Panthers and other mountain cats, they're known to attack people on occasion.
-Snakes, Anaconda comes to mind (the movie)
-Dolphins have been known to drag people away and rape them all the while drowning their victims.
-Camel-back Spiders

More comes to mind but we can sit here all day naming animals and other things like insects.

>>50919387
>>50923590
Make them from fire

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>>50918855
>What animals are fearsome enough to terrorize a small town?
Wasps, motherfucking wasps.

>How could they be beefed up into real terrors?
Make them strong and tall enough to overpower humans, fast enough to outrun/outfly humans, intelligent enough to find and hunt humans and malicious enough to hunt humans out of fucking spite.

Waspgirls may seem cute at first, but they're actually a pretty solid reason for all of humanity to kill themselves.

>>50921284
>Skunk with hips.
Now i dont consider myself a furry but i will make exceptions for a skunk
Sign me up

>>50924533
>wolverine
C'mon, it's not even a pack animal!

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>>50918855
Martens
Those fuckers kill your chickens and rabbits, nibble through your cables of your car and general are a complete menace.

>>50918855
Cats are pretty horrifying in OWoD and AD&D.

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>>50925384
and in real life as well

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>>50921284
I'm sorry, I read that as Boars with lipstick

but then I saw skunk with hips and thought it's close enough

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>>50925413
When I was at university, friends flatmate had this yippydog, part chihuahua, part terrier or some sort and complete arsehole
>Anyway, come home from night on the piss
>At the front door the yippydog is all covered in blood and pretty happy to see us
>Which is odd as the arsehole in him usually made him hate everything living

>Banister to the stairwell is broken
>Someone's crying in the kitchen
>Junkie with Achilles torn out, multiple bruises
>Fell down the stairs, beaned the living shit out of himself on the banister, woke up and tried to crawl out
>Give the cunt a good booting for breaking the window to get in, call the cops

Cops literally couldn't stop giggling at how it had happened

I don't think people realize how tough pigs and boars actually are.

Think of the biggest dude you've ever seen. Thinking of them? Shaq. He weighs 344 pounds and is 7'1. Could probably reach things ten to eleven feet high.

Think of the biggest quarterbacks and football players you know. They're probably 400-ish pounds.

The human body was not made to put all of its weight into bodyblows and tackles. It can utilize some of it. We were not made to destroy things with our shoulders.

A boar is. Its entire skull and face are made of bone and cartilage meant to propel a 500+ pound animal with the density of an anvil at around 30 miles an hour, with a low center of gravity.

As a child my family raised pigs. I've seen what even lazy domestic pigs can do with their shouts. Flipping thousand pound troughs and piggy houses and porches like children tip over plastic play houses. Touch their necks and it's like the biceps of ten men.

Look up how the Germans used to hunt wild boars. They explicitly used long spears too long for impaled pigs to berserk their way down the shaft impaling them to finish the spearman off.

Have you ever been kissed and fawned on by a big friendly dog? They're likely 200 pounds, at most. These things don't need to pick locks, because they are their own keys.

The only thing preventing a boar, or a family of large boars and sows from terrorizing people, is intelligence.

Intelligent wild pigs already have the meanness and the body. If they had the numbers and coordination, they could level suburbia.

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>no Tsavo Man Eaters

What the absolute fuck /tg/.
They made a movie about these mother fuckers. (And a damn good one at that)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters

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alternatively.

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>>50925707
>During the next nine months of construction, twomaneless maleTsavo lionsstalked the campsite, dragging Indian workers from their tents at night and devouring them.
>Crews tried to scare off the lions and built campfires and thornfences around their camp for protection to keep the man-eaters out; the lions leaped over or crawled through the thorn fences.
>Patterson […] wounded the first lion with one bullet from a high-calibre rifle. This shot struck the lion in its back leg, but it escaped. Later, it returned at night and began stalking Patterson as he tried to hunt it.
>He shot it through the shoulder, penetrating its heart with a more powerful rifle and found it lying dead the next morning not far from his platform.

>The second lion was shot at most nine times, five with the same rifle, three with a third and once with a fourth rifle.
>The first was fired from atop a scaffolding Patterson had built near goat kills done by the lion. Two, both from the second rifle were shot into it eleven days later as the lion was stalking Patterson and trying to flee.
>When they had found the lion the next day thereafter, Patterson shot it three more times with the same rifle, severely crippling it, and shot it three times with the third rifle, twice in the chest, and once in the head, which killed it.
>He claimed it died gnawing on a fallen tree branch, still trying to reach him.

>The first lion killed measured 9feet 8inches (2.95m) from nose to tip of tail. It took eight men to carry the carcass back to camp.
>The exact number of people killed by the lions is unclear. Patterson gave several figures, overall claiming that there were 135 victims. (Though modern researchers suggest it was more likely 35)

>>50922842
Dire giant spiders

>>50918855
You've already posted a damn good example OP. Boar are destructive to vegetation and animals, smart as all fuck ( they will learn from their mistakes if you let them escape), big as all fuck, and mean as all fuck. To top it all off they breed like rabbits. You want to terrorize a town? Have a few of the really big porkers ( like 200 pounds and above) settle in nearby with a few 600 plus lbs males. Either that or go full Ilha da Queimada Grande and have the town find out in the worst of ways that they've set up shop in mini Australia. Make it start subtle though; a random bite here, a decrease in rodents and birds there, all okay, right? Suddenly livestock and pets are dropping like flies and either Mister McMullen the town elder or little Johnny are found dead and covered in bites in their houses one morning. From there it should be pretty easy to ramp up the terror.

>>50925707
>no Tsavo Man Eaters
>>50922565

like did you even try looking for it?

>>50923640
We do.

>>50918855
All these answers but not the real answer: mother fucking MOSQUITOES.
>Kills one million people PER YEAR
>Spreads malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, chikungunya, yellow fever, filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, Saint Louis encephalitis, Western equine encephalitis, Eastern equine encephalitis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, La Crosse encephalitis and Zika fever.
>Not only can fly but crawl on surfaces and through cracks
>An infected mosquito can fly and spread disease in a radius of two football fields
>Only females feed on blood (pol is right for once)

>>50923771
My nigger, gotta love bearded
Vultures, my favorite bird in the animal kingdom

>>50926483
>did you even try looking for it?

Of course not anon, that would require me to actually read the thread og which I have no interest in but wanted to contribute to anyways.

>>50926784
IIRC, spring brings so many mosquitoes in the arctic that some reindeer die exsanguinated, due to the inane number of parasites searching for blood.

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Here's an inspiration for you OP

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>>50921284
>local thieves gang in a small town attempt to steal a witches magic cauldron
>the one girl in the gang that isn't very helpful(they only keep her around because of her big sexy hips), manages to knock over a table while they are all walking out with the cauldron
>witch catches them and turns them all into woodland creatures to punish them.
>witch turns the girl into a skunk cause it's funny
Damn, this shit writes itself.

>>50923672
>>50924994
>>50925493
I meant hide in plain sight, so it could spray people then escape. But eh, whatever.

>>50924876
>not stealing men so that they can help expand the hive
Seriously

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>>50918940
Jesus Christ! What's wrong with you, Anon?

>>50918855
For real though...elephant seals don't even need a buff.

Abused Circus Elephant on the loose.

>>50925597
Really? From what I remember boar spears are relatively short, but had large lugs, like a small crossguard right under the pointy bit to prevent the boar working its way up the shaft of the spear to attack the hunter.

Perhaps the long boar spear is a German thing, but I do know a bear spear is similar, but was longer.

A housecat the size of an elephant.

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>>50923482
Long ago, the timber wolves around French Creek had gotten out of hand. There were so many wolves; the farmers couldn’t prevent them from killing their livestock. So the state put a bounty on them. They would pay a hunter ten dollars for every wolf pelt he turned in, which was great pay at the time.

A butcher in town named Bill Wilson thought that was pretty good money, so he stopped working as butcher and began hunting wolves. He was quite the shot. Every year, he killed well over five hundred wolves, giving him more than five thousand dollars. In those days, that was an enviable amount of money.

After four or five years, Bill had killed so many wolves, there were hardly any left in the area. So he retired, and he vowed never to harm another wolf because they were the reason he had become so wealthy.

Then one day a farmer reported that a white wolf had killed two of his sheep. He had shot at it and hit it, but the bullets had no effect on the beast. Soon, that same wolf was seen all over the countryside, killing and running. The creature was unstoppable.

One night, it even came into Bill’s yard and killed his pet cow. Bill forgot about his promise to never harm another wolf. He went into town the next morning and bought a young lamb for bait. He took it out into the hills and tied it to a tree. Then he backed off about fifty yards, waiting under another tree, anxiously watching for the wolf as his gun rested in his lap.

When Bill didn’t come back, his friends began to look for him. Finally, they found the lamb. It was still tied to a tree, unharmed. Though it was hungry, it was still alive. Then they found Bill. He was leaning against the tree where he had waited, dead. His throat had been torn open.

Oddly, there was no sign of a struggle. His gun hadn’t even been fired. Also, there were no tracks in the soil around him. As for the white wolf? It was never seen again.

>>50925597
>I don't think people realize how tough pigs and boars actually are
This, absolutely this. Fully grown boars can wreck cars without suffering any significant damage. Your fighter in full plate is not as tough as a car.

I don't think people realize how tough most animals are, actually. Even with a hunting rifle, you have exactly one chance to stop a predator from killing you. If that shot isn't immediately fatal, you're dead. This means that if your accuracy isn't totally perfect, there's a very, very good chance that you wouldn't win a fight against a bear, or a lion, or even non-carnivorous animals like rhinos, hippos, elk, you name it.

It's the little swarming animals that are the worst, though. A single squirrel might not be able to kill you immediately, but against ten of them you'd need to kill ten before one manages to open a major blood vessel. At least against the lion you only need one perfect shot.

Fortunately, most animals aren't clever enough to know that we don't fight to kill like they do. They see a 150+ lbs creature traveling in groups, they stay away like they would with anything else.

>>50918855
Radioactive rapist bear.

>>50918855
Niggers on steroids.

>>50926954
Usually just the very young and very old, but yes, when the mosquito swarms thaw out and hatch each year things get terrible.

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Fucking birds. We already use explosives to deal with them and they still come back

>>50928605
>there's a very, very good chance that you wouldn't win a fight against a bear, or a lion, or even non-carnivorous animals like rhinos, hippos, elk, you name it.
Amusingly, it's the non-carnivorous ones that are the bigger threat. Probably cause they have to deal with the carnivores every day

>>50924876
If you should be so foolish as to smash a wasp girl her entire hive will hunt you down and cart you away to use as an incubator. Just give them what they want it's not with it.

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> Ctrl+ F "Giant Elk"
> Phrase not found
> cry every tiem

Psychic Giant Elk at that, wants his forest back. Skeletal Psychic Giant Elk.

>>50925597
>Look up how the Germans used to hunt wild boars. They explicitly used long spears too long for impaled pigs to berserk their way down the shaft impaling them to finish the spearman off.

Anon, they had dogs pinning them down before they tried to stab them. Nobody wants to take on a charging boar. Nobody.

>>50918855
A single hippo in the lake.
If this is a fishing community that depends on the lake they're fucked.

>>50921284
>Boar with lockpick.

Oh sweet fucking Jesus who even thinks like this? What dreams of sustained and inhuman cruelty make a man conjure such an image?

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>>50928920
>and so the hunters became the hunted...

>>50922619

Another theory, although not widely accepted, is that is was one of the last surviving species of an ancient breed of wolf.

One thing is for certain, it wasn't typical of animals at the time, it was quite larger than wolves in the area (which a hyena isn't) it didn't give two fucks about loud noises (which is also something that hyenas would responds to), and it picked humans as a preferred prey which is something almost no carnivore does.

>>50929560
>it picked humans as a preferred prey which is something almost no carnivore does
Why is that, anyways? Do we just taste fucking awful, or is our tendency to repay one human death with something like a hundred shark deaths too much of a hassle? I know I've seen studies showing how a hungry lion will go after a human, but only if there's nothing else in the area.

>>50928605
I agree with absolutely all of this bar lumping hippos in with non-carnivorous animals. They eat quite a few people every year. How many exactly is hard to say as they tend not to leave anything behind.

As for pigs holy fuck they are fucking mental. When I was a wee little student of 17 years old I saw a bunch of drunk asshole sports studies students drive a little too fast down a country lane.

They hit a quit large pig. It destroyed their mini. Just fucking annihilated the front end of the vehicle. That car was dead and the idiots getting out of it were bruised and bloodied and foolish.

They were foolish because the pig was very, very angry and it now had targets. They say pigs are fair clever so maybe it knew they were responsible or maybe it just had a lot of pain to pass on but it got back up and chased them all the way back to the pub.

I was on the other side of a canal with sheer iron sides or I would have bolted for the horizon.

>>50929560
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan
Actually a lot of predators will do that if we prove to be good targets. There are lions that have plagued african tribes by running off with babies, men and wolves have extreme animosity due to wolf attacks at one point being startling common, and even in modern times cougers, bears etc pop up that get a taste for people and start targeting us. There was one hiking trail that was plagued by a cougar hunting people till we finally shot it. And of course there's dngoes running off with babies.
>>50929673
Probably the overwhelming response. As I understand people taste vaguely like pork, and what wouldn't want some of that?

>>50921037
Sobek given flesh again.

>>50929779
whoops, ignore quote

>>50929772
They actually say pigs are smarter than dogs, so it probably completely understood the situation

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>>50929809

Nothing in history is as cool as the Maneater of Lucknow.

>>50922677
It should be an escaped dancing bear, used to and unafraid of the ways of men, filled with hatred for their cruel training.

>>50918855
A raging bull.

Bulls are one of the most dangerous things on land, they'll kill dogs, lions boars. They're only really fucked in the animal world when outnumbered.

A Rhino could be even worse if it wanted.

Thing is when humanity comes up against really dangerous animals we start using thrown weapons and bows on them and that trumps nature.

A bull that's seemingly impervious to arrows and thrown spears would be a true terror.

>>50929986
>Thing is when humanity comes up against really dangerous animals we start using thrown weapons and bows on them and that trumps nature
I like how true this is. Humans made it as far as we did not by being better in a fight, but by being dirty, rotten cheaters. We might not be able to take a bear one on one, but we are able to sharpen a bunch of logs, set them up in a line pointing outward, and sit on the other side tossing spears at the bear while it can't figure out how to reach us without being impaled.

>>50929986
Time for magic bloodsport.
Great Invulnerability epic/10 Boar vs Great Invulnerability epic/10 Bull vs Great Invulnerability epic/10 Rhino vs Great Invulnerability epic/10 Hippo
All are set loose in medieval towns with the same population(8k), technology(12th century) and geography (plains).

Who gets the best killcount faster?

>>50930094
We only beat Neanderthal because we have a better throwing arm and breed faster. It was smarter, stronger and healthier, but shooting shit is the apex cheatcode of nature.

>>50930098
A common rat tick.

>>50930098
You wouldn't even need to give them full invulnerability. Just give them DR vs piercing to nullify virtually all weapons with a range longer than 5 feet, then let the animal's own brute strength deal with everything else.

>>50930136
The theory that Homo Sapiens interbred with Neanderthals has a lot of genetic evidence and good arguments going for it (modern humans seem to have as much as 4% Neanderthal DAN, most of it in European areas), and most of it points to male HS to female N being infertile but female HS to male N producing offspring. So we might not've just out-fucked them, we might also have literally fucked them out of existence.

>>50929673
It's due to 3 main overarching reasons, each to do with the three different parts of hunting something.

Step one, and the oft overlooked reason, is that we don't ACT like prey, and we're pretty fucking huge compared to most animals. I mean we're not hippos or elk or anything, but our natural behavior puts us in a category of "not the prey I'm used to" for most predators, which puts them on edge because we might fight back, and to animals, picking a fight with something anywhere close to your size that isn't a prey animal is just too much of a risk. Also keep in mind that what we DO look like to some animals, are apes. and anything that has instincts about apes knows that they are brutal motherfuckers who will fuck your shit up and eat you ass first.

so that's one reason. the prey selection part. Next is the eating part. We don't taste very good to a lot of animals, especially considering our diet and nutritional value, we're just not appealing to most preds. Usually they have pretty specific diets because they need specific nutrients, and humans aren't really a good or efficient source of nutrition.

Last is the aftermath part. Usually anything that eats humans ends up extremely dead. Humans don't have any "well he was asking for that one" response to another human being eaten. If we hear there's a maneater, that thing is hunted down with extreme impunity and often times a big chunk of the general predator population is taken out with it just for safety.

>>50930228

On that note, I remember hearing about how killer whales will eat/attack just about anything, EXCEPT for humans.

Makes you wonder what we did to them that they still remember not to bother with us.

>>50930216
>female HS to male N
Women will literally drive you to extinction.

>>50930216
>most of it points to male HS to female N being infertile but female HS to male N producing offspring
But that combo means they fucked us; they fucked themselves out of existence. HS women literally cucked their own species' males with hairy, barrel-chested midgets, and fucked them so hard they went extinct.

>>50930216
>The theory that Homo Sapiens interbred with Neanderthals has a lot of genetic evidence and good arguments going for it (modern humans seem to have as much as 4% Neanderthal DAN, most of it in European areas), and most of it points to male HS to female N being infertile but female HS to male N producing offspring. So we might not've just out-fucked them, we might also have literally fucked them out of existence.
Yeah I believe pretty much every human breed other than some of the subsaharan african ones has 2-4% Neanderthal DNA. All of them, including Australian Aborigines, Pacific Islanders, everybody.

>>50930336
Orcas are pretty cool.
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_Australia

>>50929673
Apes are bad news.
Predators don't tend to mess with chimps or gorillas either.
And chimps aren't afraid to fuck us up if we mess with them.

>>50930382
Asians have traces of denisovians in them too, and aborigines/pacific islanders have an unidentified third relative's dna.

Homo sapiens were just massive sluts

>>50930098
See
>>50930098
Ironically plague ridden insects are the biggest killers of modern man.

>>50930379
>Primitive women were dorf fetishists.
Elves btfo

>>50930436
Chimps eat each other, not out of starvation but just raw hate.
Apes are beyond bad news, they're fucking psychotic.

>>50930455
>primitive's women's dorf-lust spared elf men extinction
It's a mixed blessing

Gorillas - fast, strong and smart
They'll fuck anyone really hard. Look at this motherfucker, just passes by and shows who's the alpha around there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m9zwir6Keo

>>50930506
>Cro-Magnon was elves
>Not Grimaldi
Cro-Magnon was orcs.

>>50930436
primates in general are GOAT

>>50930438
>were

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>>50930480
Baboons look the most terrifying, even with the red asses and bad make up. And they have large scale battles.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8400000/8400019.stm

>>50930632
And they eat baby antelopes ass first so they stay alive and fresh as long as possible.

>>50930632
Imagine if they weren't tiny.

>>50930669
And they terrorize modern day villages. Mostly by stealing shit, but I wouldnt want to find one of these dog-headed demons rummaging through my fridge.

>>50930438
>unidentified third relative's dna
>we didn't even know what it was and we still fucked it

>>50930379
And yet, we're still here while they're a footnote in our genetic history.

Women: blurring the line between love and war since prehistory.

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>>50930754
The biggest ones go up to 40 kg. And they form "troops" of 200+ animals.

http://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/village-south-qunfudah-fights-baboon-invasion

>A minor war has broken out south of Qunfudah in the village of Kiad where large groups of hungry baboons from nearby valleys are attacking residences in search of food and drink. Residents have employed a variety of methods to combat the primates but it is still a daily battle from sunrise to sunset.

>Adel Medini, from the town of Helli, has his own take on the recent scourge of baboons: “It’s a daily game of hide and seek. The baboons are targeting empty houses and are well aware of what they are doing. The assault on the village is not random, as some believe. They proceed according to studied plans. That’s why their attacks do not fail.

>>50918855
Moose

>>50930535
This reminds me of those comics where they black guy talks shit to a guy and then says he's joking.

>>50925493
Gonna need sauce

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>>50927423
>Implying the humans aren't already selling their firstborn sons to driders in exchange for protection against the man-sized wasps
>Implying every human settlement that wants to continue existing doesn't have a group of driders just lazing around

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>>50932283
>humans hire a drider to protect their town from the wasps
>she makes web tents over all the houses, then falls asleep in a hammock somewhere
>wakes up once a week to eat someone's baby, but that's better than losing twenty people because the queen needed fertilizers

On the subject of spiders tenting towns, communal spider colonies are one of the more horrifying things out there.

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>>50932382
I tried to look up more images of social spiders to give a better example, and found links to hyperdimensional spider webs and highly realistic spider tattoos.

Also, it apparently literally rained spiders in Australia once, because of course it did.

>>50932571
>hyperdimensional spider webs
Man I loved Asura's Wrath

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>>50929772
Apparently the best way to get rid of a body is to cut it into six pieces, pile it all together and feed it to pigs. You've got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sieving through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig."

>>50924253
don't forget that it grows two heads for each head dead at the end of its turn. it's pretty overpowered. oh and it recovers 10 hp for each regrown head.

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Your party comes across a very large pack of mandrills, and they're not happy. Roll initiative.

>>50932777
This reminds me of a conversation I saw on /x/ about weird cryptozoology shit. Someone asked if bigfoot is real, then why aren't there any bodies? The other person said for the same reason you don't find bodies of any other animal in the woods, because everything else there eats it. Human corpses are the only ones that won't disappear in less than a week, because nothing wants to eat them.

>>50932886
Thousands of years have taught most animals that human meat can come with sharp edges.

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>50932866
On my turn, I cast cloudkill wherever the mandrills are thickest.

>>50923244
If cooked right it's pretty good.

>>50933166
That goes for anything.

>>50930336
Why, we drove them back into the sea, where they belong.

>>50918855
Not an animal, but Southern Bees and Wasps/Hornets

You might not think it, but towns get evacuated in Japan when a Japanese Hornet nest or one of the bugs themselves are seen.

Lethaly, I'd say the hornets are worse than Black Widows.
Because hornets fly and don't.stop.stinging.
Widows just piss off unless you get too fucking close (inches away), but the hornets patrol territories of square yards/miles

>>50933545
In some places, flamethrowers are legal specifically for bees, hornets, and wasps. There isn't much else that works on them.

>>50933545
And here I was thinking that the depiction of hornets in anime was just a comedic exaggeration.

But no those fuckers are serious business.

>>50933545
The Japanese hornets also has corrosive venom.

>>50933634
Scorched Earth tactics are the best. Leave no trace of their best,and the smoke kills what manages to fly.

>>50933668
I remember seeing one if them. One.
It was chewing into a block of wood because it had "attack" pheromones on it. Not chewing on it, INTO it.
I'd seen the Mummy movie, and it instantly reminded me of the part with the Scarabs.

I am convinced that wasps/hornets are natures engineered solution to pests taken to the absolute extreme.

>>50933545
Animals are actually a pretty large umbrella. An animal is actually any living thing that eats, responds to its environment,and has sense organs. Thus even things like centipedes, worms, and starfish are animals.

>>50920995
Right now, polar bear/grizzly bear hybrids are 15% larger and extremely aggressive. only a few have been found, but they are gonna become more common.

>>50930846
>niggers getting their asses handed to them by their closest living relatives
>MFW

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>>50934318
Good old hybrid vigor. The reason why crazy nonsense like litigons can exist.

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>>50930436
I do like that so many of Robert E. Howard's Conan adventures features evil monkeys and primates. The man was onto something.

>>50923945
This but with a fiendish template.

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One Ork

>>50918940
> This triggers the Canuck

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>50932866
I pull the lever for the lava

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>>50918855
Your town is small, your people are weak, adventurers are faggots!

>>50930846
Planet of the Apes soon.

>>50923244
very stringy and not all that filling, overall bad people food.

>>50925707
>>50925827
"more likely 35"

when your "more likely" number is fucking 35 human beings all killed by a pair of lions shit has gone seriously south

also, when you have to take down a lion with an elephant gun something has gone seriously wrong.

i have heard this story before many times, but it still gets me so curious to see what actually happened. must have been terrifying to be one of those workers "oh, bit of a cough? hope the fucking killer lions dont get ya"

>>50929673
humans and other apes have a major advantage when it comes to defending ourselves

hands

when an animal attacks us our first instinct is one of three things

go for the throat, which works on some animals, a smaller predator isnt used to being gripped by the trachea and may just try to escape.

go for the eyes, this is something most animals cant do because of the lack of hands, but humans have a great way of gouging out somethings eyes in most positions, which is something most animals avoid.

flail ineffectually, which is pretty much as useless as other animals attempting to escape, but i can understand the lack of thought when you are being mauled to death.

but the takeaway from this is that humans are dangerous game because there is the chance they could just straight up kill or maim you, which is really bad for a predator in general and most predators will avoid anything but a completely one sided encounter in their favor, which humans tend not to be.

also we have guns and sharp things.

>>50918855
How about a flatulent female yak who rampages through the village during the mating season (all warmer months) and sits on strong smelling men unintentionally crushing them to death all in hopes she can get some of that stanky man D.

>>50930436
In 3.5 a pet Ape or gorilla completely shits on everything at low levels

I want a monkey riding a Deep Goose as a BBEG now.

>>50918855
komodo dragon with longer tongue

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>>50918855
Giant spiders with telepathy, subtly commanding humans to walk into their nets

For added twist, this works better on adults as kids assume the voice is their imagination

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>>50945802
Runner-up:
Psycho-memetic parasite that implants false memories, using up resources as well as feeding from its host's psychic energy

>>50919395
>> 200% bigger

200% bigger than ant size.

Terrifying.

My players have recently discovered that a big cat is taking the cows of the local village. When the ranger camped out in a tree to watch the cows from a distance, he didn't see a thing. The next morning, he climbs down and sees tracks indicating the cat paced around the base of his tree all night. Needless to say, he was pretty spooked. Any ideas for how to make this cat fucking terrifying?

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>>50921284
>boar with lockpick

>>50925597
So all those hentai doujinshis about pig-men orcs are legit on how inferior humans are to them....

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>>50939673
>Austrailians are rapidly banning any kinds of firearm ownership when shit like this happens

>>50922286
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Those aussies never saw them coming

>>50939673
>Ky Kiske cosplay sitting in the box

>>50924241

Yes.

http://www.coolstuffinparis.com/wolves_of_paris.php

>>50939594

Dorf fort in a nutshell.

>>50946821
You have city dwelling cucks that stay as far away from danger as possible to thank for that

>>50934546
Those have bone and heart problems and are infertile, so that's definitely not a case of hybrid vigor. They share just enough DNA to have living offspring, but the results aren't great.

>>50946821
>>50947769

Why the hell would you need a gun for a kangaroo? Nothing a good cricket bat couldn't handle, or just grabbing a beer and waiting for it to jump in front of the first car that comes past.

>>50948169
The same is true of crackhead burglars, but I still dont want to go in hand to hand with them.

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>>50947998
Me again. I wasn't exactly accurate with the facts, but close enough to the point. Females are still fertile.

As for the 'mixed instincts lead to depression and confusion', take a look at Eliot Rogers.

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>>50921284
>Skunk with hips.

>>50928102
The art in these books was so much better than the stories themselves, although this is one of the better ones. Am I just stupid though, or is the ending to this story just confusing? Was Bill supposed to be the white wolf? Was it just some ghost that was there to avenge the wolves killed by Bill? I have never been too sure.

>>50948565
Probably the latter, tearing out your own throat is hard as fuck

>>50928102
>bill wilson
/tv/ strikes again

>>50946821
This is why America's electoral system works. Imagine if the rest of the country was immediately subject to Malibu and LA's whims. The whole north and midwest would be wolf land by now.

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>>50921284
>Boar with lockpick.

Boars are still fearsome enough to terrorize Russians but they have learned their true weakness, sinks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SpzW_O2Ya0

>>50923514
I get that refrence!

>>50948330
>As for the 'mixed instincts lead to depression and confusion', take a look at Eliot Rogers.

We're talking about somebody who tried to build his life around the magical power of brands and dumb shit that mainly applies to the british definition of Asians (aka Pakis and Indians).

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>>50918855
TERROR

BIRDS

>>50918855
I recall there being a story of a lv 1 housecat that annihilated most of a town and kept on snowballing into more power since it got xp for it's kills.

>>50930336
1)
I think that has more to do with us teaming up with them alot. I vaguely know of at least a few traditions where they would drive a whale/etc towards us for killing and we humans would send back the tasty bits.
2) Has it really been that long since we saw that killer whale eat people at sea world? I would think that's something you don't forget.

>>50930438
There's also supposedly some random giant species that was in Tibet. We apparently ran into a tribe of them one day and had such a massive orgy from that single and only encounter (as best as dna analysis can apparently prove) that we still have it's dna running about if i remember correctly.

>>50919592

not that anon but yeah, boxers can and do die from being hit by other boxers wearing gloves. Nick Blackwell almost died twice this year fighting guys wearing gloves.

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>>50948169
>>50948207
Your friends at Vault-Tec have your back for this one.

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>>50930228
>Step one, and the oft overlooked reason, is that we don't ACT like prey,

Huge part. Met an African park ranger once, whose shtick was quick bon mots:

"Don't go out at night. Food goes out at night. If you are out at night, don't run. Food runs."

also (unrelated)

"Zebras are not horses. Horses will forgive."


I'll put in another vote for a hippo. One hippo.

Do you see the man in this image? He is a trained park ranger, and he is running for his goddamned life because he has pissed off this hippo and his only chance is if it loses interest before it catches him.

>>50962325
>he is running for his goddamned life because he has pissed off this hippo and his only chance is if it loses interest before it catches him

Wait, are you saying a hippo can outrun a black man? Jesus fuck, that's scary.

>>50930228
A slight addition i'd like to point out to this is that clothes taste like shit. Sharks tend to spit us back out after biting thanks to this. It's not really a major reason but it's a tiny little advantage that modern humans get.

>>50962456
>On land, hippos can run at speeds of 18-31 miles per hour, though they can only sustain this speed over short distances; in water, hippos can move at about 5 miles per hour. Hippos can easily outrun and are known to be quite aggressive toward humans.

>Read the whole thread
>No mention of stampedes

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>>50921284
I dont even know anymore

>>50926521

Goose-like posting detected

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>>50921284
>Lockpicking boars

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>>50922286
>>50922331
>>50946864
Why settle for the lesser forms when you can have schoolbus sized bird terror?

>>50923244
Personally I think it's better than rabbit

>>50953841
That reminds me. Year and a half ago there was a wild boar running right in a middle of my city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux3MJ6p_HZ8
That's the main street of one of the largest russian cities, population 1+ million. I walk that along that road every day. If I left the work an hour earlier, I could have been attacked and killed by a wild animal. Surreal.

>>50923588
I'm pretty sure you can't have a dire goose, since a goose is already dire (dire duck). Just like an orca is really just a dire porpoise, so you can't have a dire orca.

>>50963985
Dwarf Fortress's Gigantic Giant Desert Tortoises would disagree with you.

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>>50934276
By that definition a few carnivorous plants are also animals, albeit slow ones. Flytraps eat, and have sensory "hairs" that trigger the eating response. They also move, but that's only due to their rhizome growing on one side and dying off on the other.

Sundews are also fairly active in grabbing prey, coiling dozens of sticky tendrils around it in a digestive embrace.

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>>50934276
>when you know nothing about taxonomy or biology but you want to sound smart anyway

>>50964179
I think purely autonomous reactions like reflexes are ignored for those purposes, specifically to rule out stuff like this. Response implies conscious action.

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>>50918855
>What animals are fearsome enough to terrorize a small town?
Has anyone mentioned ant swarms? massive teeming movements of dangerous regular ants can be life-threatening. Scaled up to Giant Ants and you have an incredible threat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVkdw5s3joI

>>50964224
A fair point. And there are plenty of other differences like cell walls and synthesizing nutrients from the environment.

>>50929395

I can vouch for that. Retarded friend of mine brought his Lee Enfield out boar hunting, with affixed bayonet thinking he was going to be all badass and just skewer it if he missed. Long story short, he missed, and when he stabbed it the rifle got wrenched out of his hands by the impact and he ran screaming like a little bitch for me to shoot it with my AK.

AK > boar > Enfield

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>>50946821
Not really, anyone that wants a rifle or pistol can get one.
Provided your not a criminal or completely batshit crazy, like doing paperwork and a few other conditions + storage. I still do some professional shooting of feral animals, mostly pigs, goats, dogs, deer, cats and very rarely- roos, so I have a couple of guns that even people in some US states wouldn't be able to own and plenty of pistols.

Feral pigs I'm kind of dubious about posing a threat to life and limb, sows will get super-cranky when they've got piglets, but they'll run as soon as there is a danger to them. If they're cornered, they'll go through you to get away and it won't be fun.
Predators like dogs are a threat to people and pets in a large enough pack and if the person appears to be wounded or otherwise incapable of defending themselves. Larger dogs by themselves are quite formidable too, especially if they've been trained to bite people.

Kangaroos are basically a pain in the arse because they inevitably end up buried in the front of someones car, kind of like deer. Wild ones aren't really a threat to anyone, however, wild ones which come into city peoples suburbs, munch on the nice lawns, get fed by people overcome their instincts to run away and will challenge if bothered or cornered. Plus dogs chase them and if the roo is big enough it will beat the crap out of them.
One of the funniest jobs I ever had was this damn roo in a town suburb that went around beating the shit out of dogs and their owners who stepped in to help.
Stuck in a 2hr meeting with the local council + police explaining to them why I can't let off fuckheug ordinance in a town (risk of hitting something/someone) and eventually blew the shit out of it with a 12G full of BB's.

Most other organised culls are a mess of paperwork, then the tree hugging greenie cunts turn up and protest it, so I avoid them if I can.

Stuff that actually kills people here- spiders, jellyfish, bees, snakes and ant stings

>>50964993
Of all the horror stories I hear about the critters that live in Australia, I almost never hear about the jellyfish. What are they like?

>>50964212
In hindsight, I probably should have just told him that insects are animals and left it at that.

>>50965107
Not that anon (or australian) but consider that the box jellyfish venom, has as one of it's symptoms, "an overwhelming sense of impending doom."

>>50918855
It doesn't even need to be a particularly large or aggressive animal, just give it the Jaws treatment. Make it bigger and more aggressive than normal, make it smart enough to avoid most traps, and have it kill a few of the people who tried to kill it early on.

If this is sci-fi or fantasy, it doesn't even need to have started off like that. It could have been mutated by radiation (magical or no), or a wizard/scientist/etc could have done something to it (and then it escaped / was released).

>>50965107
Probably some of the most lethal, the Box Jelly is extremely dangerous, but it has a little cousin called the Irukandji which takes toxicity to new levels of lunacy.
There's also cone shells and stonefish which nail the odd person and of course the blue ringed octopus.

Sharks are scary, but they aren't nearly as much of a threat to people as the others in the ocean. Though, you're more likely to be run over and murdered by a fat chick in an SUV or some teenager texting than come across most of them

>>50965436
>one of Nature's deadliest animals provides you with a built in warning that you are going to die just in case you missed the nearly invisible. string-thin tentacles that poisoned you

>>50962456
Hippos are a lot faster than they look, and are EXTREMELY aggressively territorial, and can very seriously fuck up anything it catch. Those teeth aren't for show after all.

Case in point, aside from the park ranger picture above.
Steve Irwin, a man who wrestled gators of all shapes and sizes for a living, was terrified when a boat he was in got almost too close to hippo territory.

>>50965611
Fun fact:
Part of treatment involves strapping the victim down because they WILL attempt suicide to make the pain stop.

>>50966900
Think its mostly because how long it lasts, some of the insect stings at their most extreme will be a couple of hours of pain and a day or so of being very uncomfortable.
Box Jelly's pain runs at 100% for 10-12hrs and then just drops down to 'fucking shoot me!' for the next 48hrs (NB: this is while you're already on the IV drip of morphine)

>>50964224
>I think purely autonomous reactions like reflexes are ignored for those purposes
Then what of insects?

>>50930136
>We only beat Neanderthal because we have a better throwing arm and breed faster

Current theories are that we were slightly better at language, which then bootstrapped into neanderthal extinction.
IIRC, there's also a little more efficiency in walking.

A rather grumpy feral dwarf

>>50918855
Elephants.
Once they move in nearby, not a damn thing can stop them tearing up your land for food. They destroy cars because they don't like the way they're looking at them, or just to look tough. They destroy fences to eat your crops. They won't willingly harm animals, but will knock walls over just by accident.

The only way to keep them out is to set up beehives. Elephants HATE bees, and will leave rather than risk angering them.

>>50918902
I don't think crocodiles count as semi-dangerous bro

>>50971736
Crocs can't do shit outside water. You could throw rocks at them all day

>>50972520
Wikipedia says that crocs can run at around 15-20 mph, while not fast enough to chase and catch a regular human, that's plenty fast enough to ambush from a river edge, especially if you scale it up to monster size (hell, Brutus and Gustave are pretty much already there, Brutus is already missing an arm in proper monster identification fashion)

>>50972630
Can, but won't. If you're more than a couple feet from the shore they won't bother, because they're ambush predator reptiles and energy is expensive.

Lemme tell you a story about Conarchar Mor and his hound /tg/, a myth abouy the founding of a Clan Urquhart.
Conarchar had an old hound, that had served him lovingly its entire life until old age and infirmity lead Conarchar to the desire to put the dog down. However an old women spoke to him one day. She cautioned that the hound had not yet had its day.
At this time a great beast was ravishing the country side. So savage a boar that any hunter that met it had only been found later in a tattered mess. This beast had become so notorious that it was perceived as a real threat to the livelyhood of the villiages in the region, and as you might of guessed, Conarchar runs into this pig while hunting.
As great a warrior Conarchar may have been, and struggle as he might, he was unable to leave a fatal impression on the animal. His soear broken and knife no longer availible yo him. He ressigned himself to the mauling awaiting him, but in that last moment the hound leap from the the underbrush, with renewed vigor he fought to save his master. Killing the great boar but being mauled fatally in the processes. The story goes that Conarchar wept with the hound in his arms, and the hound came to be known as An Cu Mor, translated as "The Great Dog" roughly.

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>>50918855

Just put hippos in the river the village gets its water from, that or gustave the crocodile slayer of armies and devourer of men.

No need to beef anything up.

>>50927403
Sure you did.

>>50919528
What they really did was give punches a greater surface area, making them tremendously better at causing serious brain damage. Before, a bunch to the face was more likely to cut and bruise flesh or even break bones, all much more safe than all the force getting turned straight noggin rockin punishment.

Moral of the story, boxing gloves, while being somewhat more comfortable, make a trained striker much more lethal an adversary.

I'm running a campaign where running into scary animals is almost a daily event. This thread is incredibly helpful.

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>>50935942
And snakes. Don't forget the snakes.

>>50918940
Came here to post this

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>>50961581
>radroo

>>50971411
I'd read that it was because we matured slower. It gave more time to form bonds which meant groups that cooperate better.
Humanity literally evolved and exists due to the power of friendship.

>>50921284
>Woodpecker with sneak attack.
People don;t realize this is horrifying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4oEM0W6mhM

>>50980321
HOLY FUCK

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This has been one of the best threads I've seen in ages. Happy new year, fags.

>>50980321
1:19
>psssh... nothin ... personnel...kid

>>50923640
The people at the victory feast.

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>>50918855

>jewel wasps

Make them bigger and attack people. They would be worse than xenomorphs.

>>50980321
>>50980480
>>50981865
According to this documentary, in times of starvation some woodpeckers have been known to eat cats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukDs7wScLUI

>>50948565
nah, the white wolf was a less successful hunter in wolves clothing

>>50924533
>whale on stilts

>>50918855
Do I have a story for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankebetsu_brown_bear_incident

>>50918855
Zombie sharks.

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>>50982803

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4489792.stm
>"They literally gutted the dog," local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

"When they saw the men, they scattered in different directions, taking pieces of their kill away with them."

They're also known for hungering for the flesh of infant humans since they can't fight back.

>>50929779
>As I understand people taste vaguely like pork, and what wouldn't want some of that?
Maybe all animals are Muslim? Muslims already believe this, maybe it's time the rest of us finally admitted that they're right.

>>50983173
>Muslims

You mean Jews, right?

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Keas kind of do this already. They're curious little bastards, about as smart as corvids, and they're persistent enough to damage containers (and cars) by picking them apart to see how they work and if there's any food inside.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/06/08/crows-and-parrots-brainy-birds-but-in-different-ways/

Not much of a physical threat, but they have been known to tear chunks of flesh out of living sheep when they don't have anything else to eat. You could probably scale them up and use their intelligence to make them pack hunters.

>>50983420
More Muslims observe halal than Jews obverse kosher

>>50983422
Not really flesh, they dig out fat.

>>50983173
Kebab detected.
>>50983420
>>50983427
Halal and Kosher are based on religious taboos and doctrine about what food is culturally okay and what isn't. Because when you live in an echo chamber filled with your own holy proprietary farts, you want only the particles of that exclusive fart sauce to be in your food.

Technically speaking there are more Muslims that observe Halal, because globally there are 16 million Jews. That means even if a fraction of muslims maintained pure halal, it'd still be more than the entire population of Jews. Muslims meanwhile have 1.6 billion adherents. Only 1% of the entire Muslim world would need to keep halal to observe dietary restrictions more often than the optimal capacity of every Jew on earth.

But globally the numbers of whom keeps to religious dietary restrictions is probably close to the same.

>>50918940
Mate, that's an overkill.

>word search
>no sign of Mantis or Pistol Shrimp.

/tg/ I am disappoint.

Mantis Shrimp can see twelve different wavelengths of light owing to about twelve different rods and cones, while humans see three. The little shits barely bigger than the size of your hand can punch crabs and anything else so hard it creates what's called a supercavitating bubble underwater, where the impact makes a plasma mote as hot as the inner temperatures of the sun for a brief second. Hot enough to burst and stun most anything it wants to eat as well as scalding things.

You tell me something like this terrorizing an island nation wouldn't be awesome.

>>50984394
But it's small.

>>50984436
>how could they be beefed up into real terrors?

>I dunno lol giant mantis shrimp.

>>50934318
>http://sciencenordic.com/grizzly-polar-bear-hybrids-spotted-canadian-arctic
>Climate change is in part responsible for the emergence of these grolar hybrids
>climate change will get us mauled by angry bears
This is the future we choose

>>50971651
I've heard that some villages will paint their fences with hot pepper paste to keep elephants away.

>>50971117
Hunting for food is not purely autonomous, now is it? Pure reflexes are things you don't even need a brain for, and even jellyfish have something resembling neurons. They aren't capable of complex decision making, but they can still act in the absence of external stimuli.

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>>50971651
>Elephants won't willingly harm animals
Except for all the murdered humans

>>50933545
>Not an animal, but Southern Bees and Wasps/Hornets
what the fuck do you think bees are? plants?

>>50985375
They're clearly very advanced viruses

>>50985342
to be fair, elephants typically don't understand 'human property'. So when humans show up and shoot them, or their family, or hear from the grapevine humans have shot at them (and elephants do speak to one another) they get angry.

We're talking about a creature intelligent enough to study humans to understand what knocking on a door means.
Also creatures mysteriously stealthy enough to sneak through villages at 3 AM. To knock on your door.

And just hot blooded and violent enough to pick you up with their trunk AND THROW YOU. Like what happens in some parts of India.

>>50921284
>Boar with lockpick.
SNEEEEEEEEAKKKK ATTTTAAAAACK!!!!

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>>50961581
Should be ok, we just invented a bigger snek

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>>50984682