are there useless animals?

[AWAR]

Cockroaches, they are useless!

 

[Abengoshis]

Useless to what? Nothing is useful objectively.


If I were to answer your question, the first thing that comes into my mind would be the Methane Worm....then the French. (I'm joking for all you French people out there).

 

[SuperUberBob]

Lice, tapeworms, crabs

 

[The Last Nomad]

Animals don't intentionally serve a purpose to other species... All they do intentionally is survive and breed to continue there own species...

However... sometimes two different species adapt to live together for the benifit of both species (And that is known as symbiosis, FYI). This is still just an attempt to get each species ahead...

And there are many types of animals who do not have any use to other tpye of animals if thats really what you mean

Oh and,

... and impregnate (other word for that, couldn't find it) flowers and trees.

I think the word you're looking for is fertilise or pollinate.

 

[Jaranja]

Everything is useless. We're on a planet that will eventually die, and nobody in the entire universe will remember it. Are we really that useful if all we're going to do is die sooner or later?

No. No we are not.

Useful to each other.

 

[era81]

Panda bears are worthless even some WWF reps have said that they're a waste of resources.What other creature on this planet is to lazy to fuck?

 

[awesomebillfromdawsonville]

The all fit into the life cycle somehow, but even still in gonna go with Manatees.

 

[awesomebillfromdawsonville]

If we're talkin about creatures in general though, bedbugs. They're parasites that have no predators and would not change the world if they didn't exist.

 

[Brad Shepard]

any parasite ever.

 

[oppp7]

Viruses. Not animals, and disputed to even be alive, but there is no reason for them. We need to extinct them.

 

[Mookie_Magnus]

I'm not sure if there are any useless animals.

But believe me when I say that in nature pretty much every animal contributes to the ecosystem in some way.

Remove one animal and it fucks up the whole system in some way.

However, I would sleep easier at night if I knew ninos de la tierra (Potato bugs for non-mexicans and spanish speakers) were extinct *shudders* hate them.

WARNING: DO NOT GOOGLE THEM IF YOU ARE INTIMIDATED BY BUGS.

Wait, do you mean those tiny land-based crustaceans affectionately called pill-bugs, or roly-polies?

Or do you mean those big undersea ones that look like this?

Spoiler: Look here!

The Giant Isopod.

 

[Mookie_Magnus]

Lice, tapeworms, crabs

By crabs, do you mean the sexually transmitted kind? Those are also a type of lice...

Now, if you mean the kind that have shells and claws... Why are they useless?

 

[FactualSquirrel]

The word you are looking for is "pollenate"

Everything is useless.

Thechnically this, but seeing as life itself is a use, as it is all we know, all animals serve to keep the ecosystem intact. Wasps, to use your example, help to avoid overpopulation, and are in fact also eaten by quite a few things, so are useful ther eas well.

 

[c0rzilla]

Everything is useless. We're on a planet that will eventually die, and nobody in the entire universe will remember it. Are we really that useful if all we're going to do is die sooner or later?

No. No we are not.

Y'know, the idea of not being remembered never really bugged me. And you do know the OP is using the word "useful" in the sense of Earth's ecosystem and not in a cosmic sense, right?

 

[Nemu]

I don't think there are USELESS animals...

Animals I could do without, yes, like the aforementioned bugs.

God, I hate bugs. Even ladybugs and butterflies. They're just disgusting. ><!

 

[Icecoldcynic]

Everything is useless. We're on a planet that will eventually die, and nobody in the entire universe will remember it. Are we really that useful if all we're going to do is die sooner or later?

No. No we are not.

>Implying there are others in the universe.

Besides, i'm rather certain the TC was talking in the perspective of short-term consequences rather than the timescale you're imagining.

 

[MurderousToaster]

Anything I can't eat

I'd have to say that slugs seem useless. Snails are way better.

 

[Sonicron]

Any kind of parasite, really, but the one animal I could really, really do without is the tick.
Unless it's the cartoon character, of course.

 

[asinann]

The panda is pretty useless, and it's TRYING to kill itself off.