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What is your favourite mammal?

Anteater
0
No votes
Bat
0
No votes
Bear
1
3%
Cat
0
No votes
Camel
1
3%
Cow
0
No votes
Dog
2
7%
Dolphin
0
No votes
Elephant
1
3%
Giraffe
1
3%
Gorilla
0
No votes
Hedgehog
3
10%
Horse
1
3%
Human
7
24%
Lion
0
No votes
Pig
2
7%
Rabbit
1
3%
Raccoon
2
7%
Rhino
1
3%
Tiger
2
7%
Whale
0
No votes
Zebra
0
No votes
Other [please specify]
4
14%
 
Total votes: 29

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I literally love mammals. They are awesome. But which is best? Let's find out.
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I literally cannot choose.
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Matt Morrison wrote:I literally cannot choose.
I know :( It's almost unfair to include bats and tigers in the same poll. It's like asking people to choose between pizza and Bach.
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The answer of course is elephant, with pig a close second. Wheeeeeeeeee![/squeal]
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Dog still, but only because I have one and he'd be upset otherwise.
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Jon Corby wrote:Dog still, but only because I have one and he'd be upset otherwise.
This new poll is relevant because a lot of mammals have been invented since then.
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Matt Morrison wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Dog still, but only because I have one and he'd be upset otherwise.
This new poll is relevant because a lot of mammals have been invented since then.
Heretic!
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Matt Morrison wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Dog still, but only because I have one and he'd be upset otherwise.
This new poll is relevant because a lot of mammals have been invented since then.
Haha, you creationist freak. They've evolved since the last poll, they haven't been invented.
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Why no duck-billed platypus?
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BADGER
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I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I went for human. I regretted it instantly, and now can't change my vote.
I think it was just a response to how unimpressed I suddenly realised I was by mammals as I looked down the list. I really am not going to be popular after saying all this.

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Jon Corby wrote:They've evolved since the last poll, they haven't been invented.
Not always :lol:
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Charlie Reams wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:I literally cannot choose.
I know :( It's almost unfair to include bats and tigers in the same poll. It's like asking people to choose between pizza and Bach.
Pizza, right?
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orang-utan

is my absolute favourite.

If we were allowed extinct species I would go for HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS
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Did I say summat wrong?
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I voted camel ages ago but didn't want to post anything until I found this video of a camel chewing with loads of people around him admiring the scene, but I can't find it. It was shown during the build up to Algeria vs England on Match of the Day but I can't find it :(
John Bosley wrote:Did I say summat wrong?
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Proud of it! :D
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Difficult one to vote on because of the different interpretations of the question. I went for human as my favourite living mammal, but if it had been favourite dead mammal, young sheep definitely.
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David Roe wrote:Difficult one to vote on because of the different interpretations of the question. I went for human as my favourite living mammal, but if it had been favourite dead mammal, young sheep definitely.
Necropaedoovophilia? And I thought my hobbies were strange.
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Ian Volante wrote:
David Roe wrote:Difficult one to vote on because of the different interpretations of the question. I went for human as my favourite living mammal, but if it had been favourite dead mammal, young sheep definitely.
Necropaedoovophilia? And I thought my hobbies were strange.
Necropaedoovinophilia. He said sheep not eggs.
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Liam Tiernan wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:
David Roe wrote:Difficult one to vote on because of the different interpretations of the question. I went for human as my favourite living mammal, but if it had been favourite dead mammal, young sheep definitely.
Necropaedoovophilia? And I thought my hobbies were strange.
Necropaedoovinophilia. He said sheep not eggs.
A very good point. My latin skills are sadly lacking. Combining the two could be interesting though.
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I like animals that look like they've been drawn by children.
Baby rhinos are properly ridiculous.
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The Proboscis Monkey because it is the funniest that I have seen.
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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/ ... ious-chimp

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The Primate of All Ireland. :)
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My favourite mammal is Josh Hurst, closely followed by Jack Hurst.
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JackHurst wrote:My favourite mammal is Josh Hurst, closely followed by Jack Hurst.
I love grey squirrels, they make lovely targets.
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Go platypuses!
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Agoutis or goats.
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Joseph Krol wrote:Go platypuses!
Or is it Platypi :?
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Marc Meakin wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:Go platypuses!
Or is it Platypi :?
Or eve platypodes :?: :geek:
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Wikipedia has something to say on the plural of platypus... Can't remember what it is. Will check.
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Joseph Krol wrote:Wikipedia has something to say on the plural of platypus... Can't remember what it is. Will check.
Here it is...

There is no universally agreed plural of "platypus" in the English language. Scientists generally use "platypuses" or simply "platypus". Colloquially the term "platypi" is also used for the plural, although this is technically incorrect and a form of pseudo-Latin; the correct Greek plural would be "platypodes".
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GIRRAFE!!!! I KNOW ITS GIRAFFE NOT GIRRAFE BUT SO WHAT I CANT BE BOVVERED TO CHANGE IT. and i know i was doing it in caps lock but i couldnt be bovvered to change it. until now. Anyway, GIRAFFES ROCK! They are my overall fave animal, and have been since i went to chester zoo and saw them. 'love at first sight', as you call it! but no no no i am not marrying a giraffe that would just be totally and utterly wrong!! dont really know why i really like giraffes, though...
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George F. Jenkins wrote:I love grey squirrels, they make lovely targets.
:o :o :o :o :o :o YOU KILL SQUIRRELS???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! noooooooooooooooooooo waaaaaaay!!!!

...not a vegetarian or anything...just an animal lover. still, NO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IN MY WORLD, MISTER!

:lol: :lol: :lol: lol!
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Soph K wrote:...not a vegetarian or anything...just an animal lover. still, NO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IN MY WORLD, MISTER!
Cruelty doesn't include, er, killing and eating them?
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Michael Wallace wrote:
Soph K wrote:...not a vegetarian or anything...just an animal lover. still, NO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IN MY WORLD, MISTER!
Cruelty doesn't include, er, killing and eating them?
IT DOES IN MY WORLD, MISTER!


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Jon Corby wrote:Dog still, but only because I have one and he'd be upset otherwise.
what KIND of dog? Dalmations are sooooooooooooooo cute! and labradors tooooo! and sausage dogs as weeeell! basically, i like all dogs. NOT ones that jump on you though!
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Soph K wrote:
George F. Jenkins wrote:I love grey squirrels, they make lovely targets.
:o :o :o :o :o :o YOU KILL SQUIRRELS???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! noooooooooooooooooooo waaaaaaay!!!!

...not a vegetarian or anything...just an animal lover. still, NO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IN MY WORLD, MISTER!

:lol: :lol: :lol: lol!
You have a strange meaning 0f cruelty mister or mrs or miss. If we allow grey squirrels to increase, all wild life like song birds will be destroyed. This is why the Government introduced a culling programme which I presume is more cruel than a clean shot in the head. Grey squirrels are vermin imported from the U.S.A to decorate the landed estates of gentlemen. They destroy all song birds nests, eat the eggs, and kill newly hatched chicks. This has happened in my own garden, and when I kill a grey squirrel, I think of the song birds that I have saved. They have driven the red squirrels, which eat only vegetable matter, from the south, and it is mainly up north that red squirrels are now found, and I wonder how long they will survive. I do my bit for nature, our local fox loves squirrels and pigeons, and he visits my garden every day to see what I have served up for him.
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George F. Jenkins wrote:Grey squirrels are vermin imported from the U.S.A to decorate the landed estates of gentlemen.
What makes you think that?
George F. Jenkins wrote: They destroy all song birds nests, eat the eggs, and kill newly hatched chicks. This has happened in my own garden, and when I kill a grey squirrel, I think of the song birds that I have saved. They have driven the red squirrels, which eat only vegetable matter
Red and grey squirrels both eat bird eggs, and only when they can't find their preferred food (nuts and fungi). Grey squirrels also eat acorns while red ones don't, so if anything greys are less likely to be hungry enough to eat anything else.
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George F. Jenkins wrote:
Soph K wrote:
George F. Jenkins wrote:I love grey squirrels, they make lovely targets.
:o :o :o :o :o :o YOU KILL SQUIRRELS???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! noooooooooooooooooooo waaaaaaay!!!!

...not a vegetarian or anything...just an animal lover. still, NO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IN MY WORLD, MISTER!

:lol: :lol: :lol: lol!
You have a strange meaning 0f cruelty mister or mrs or miss. If we allow grey squirrels to increase, all wild life like song birds will be destroyed. This is why the Government introduced a culling programme which I presume is more cruel than a clean shot in the head. Grey squirrels are vermin imported from the U.S.A to decorate the landed estates of gentlemen. They destroy all song birds nests, eat the eggs, and kill newly hatched chicks. This has happened in my own garden, and when I kill a grey squirrel, I think of the song birds that I have saved. They have driven the red squirrels, which eat only vegetable matter, from the south, and it is mainly up north that red squirrels are now found, and I wonder how long they will survive. I do my bit for nature, our local fox loves squirrels and pigeons, and he visits my garden every day to see what I have served up for him.
Good point, but (there's always a but!) they're animals; look, if you were a squirrel (well, squirrels are animals just like us, so I suppose you could think of it as if it was you, but that thought would not be nice, really...!) would you like to be killed, or your family or friends to be killed, just because there are going to be too many of you? No. Although, then, like you said, they would increase; they're not very common now though, and if we kill too many, they'll soon be endangered.
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