Foot-long centipede devours live mouse

Mao Tse Tongue said:
I can't wait for the day that cocksuckers who do this kind of shit to animals--whatever their size--will be charged. Disgusting and far too many of them on the web.

I agree 100%.

The circle of life should not be made into a spectator sport.
 
SPQR said:
I agree 100%.

The circle of life should not be made into a spectator sport.

Tell that to CNN.
 
incognito said:
Fascinating. I never knew a centipede could grow that big and be able to take out a mouse.

Other insects and spiders consume mice, or at least parts of a mouse, but they usually knock it out with venom first. I'm not even going to visit this link, as I had major childhood insctophobia and don't wish to risk a relapse.

I thought ten inches was about the size limit for surface-dwelling creatures with an exoskeleton? I thought there was some equation which limited the amount of mass that an insect or arachanid frame could support on land against gravity wthout collapsing?

At least that's what biolgists claim when they explain how the sci-fi scenarios of cat-size spiders or ants is physically impossible.
 
I can't wait for the day that cocksuckers who do this kind of shit to animals--whatever their size--will be charged. Disgusting and far too many of them on the web.

There's also a video where someone grabs a mouse and tosses it into a fish tank filled with piranha. You can figure out the rest...

Or the video where a guy puts a mouse in a sack slams it againt the wall breaking its limbs and feeding it to his pet snake.

Why the fuck they got to do that shit for? :mad:
 
Edifice said:
There's also a video where someone grabs a mouse and tosses it into a fish tank filled with piranha. You can figure out the rest...

Or the video where a guy puts a mouse in a sack slams it againt the wall breaking its limbs and feeding it to his pet snake.

Why the fuck they got to do that shit for? :mad:

For personal pleasure.
 
SPQR said:
I agree 100%.

The circle of life should not be made into a spectator sport.

So watching those nature shows of crocks on the banks of the nile river snatching a wilderbeast is a spectator sport? I agree that it looks cruel but thats what happens in life, the prey gets eaten by the hunter. I think its more educational. I didn't know a centipede could take down a mouse.
 
Hard Idle said:
Other insects and spiders consume mice, or at least parts of a mouse, but they usually knock it out with venom first. I'm not even going to visit this link, as I had major childhood insctophobia and don't wish to risk a relapse.

I thought ten inches was about the size limit for surface-dwelling creatures with an exoskeleton? I thought there was some equation which limited the amount of mass that an insect or arachanid frame could support on land against gravity wthout collapsing?

At least that's what biolgists claim when they explain how the sci-fi scenarios of cat-size spiders or ants is physically impossible.

Actualy, the centipede also has venom in which it injects into its prey, although not as potent as a snake or a spider, it still packs a punch.

BTW, they discovered a species of spider in indonesia that can grow to the size of a dinner plate, and hunts mammals for food. How's that for sci-fi?;)
 
incognito said:
So watching those nature shows of crocks on the banks of the nile river snatching a wilderbeast is a spectator sport? I agree that it looks cruel but thats what happens in life, the prey gets eaten by the hunter. I think its more educational. I didn't know a centipede could take down a mouse.

that's completely different, that's man just capturing what's already happening in nature without any intervention

these sick videos are man-made/contrived situations for entertainment
 
all it is is nature. The hunter and the prey. I dont know if that mouse was set up there to be eating by the centipede, but if it was now that is cruel but if not then it is just nature running its course
 
incognito said:
So watching those nature shows of crocks on the banks of the nile river snatching a wilderbeast is a spectator sport? I agree that it looks cruel but thats what happens in life, the prey gets eaten by the hunter. I think its more educational. I didn't know a centipede could take down a mouse.

Animals killing animals is done for shock value not for educational purposes. I can easly learn about the eating habit of the crocodile without having to watch it slaughter another animal live.

I fail to see how a killer whale sweeping up on a glacier and devouring a cute and fuzzy seal cub has any additional educational value.