are there useless animals?

[Plazmatic]

i heard about a scientific study that prooved mosqitoes were the only living thing that wasn't the main part of the diet of any other organism. Basically the mosqitoe could be completely eradiacted and while there would be an imballance in the food chain it would recover. On ther other hand mosqitoes do help to controll the human population ie. by spreading deases and making the outside less appealing therefor promoting obesety.

Fun fact: The femal mosqitoe is the blood sucking monster whilst the male mosqitoe's only purpose is to reproduce...

First your statement that they are not the main part of any diet is false, instead of blindly believing things, look it up for yourself...

"The dragonfly nymph eats mosquitoes at all stages of development and is quite effective in controlling populations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxorhynchites

 

[MetaKnight19]

The blob fish.

Google it.

It looks really depressed.

Just looking at it makes me feel depressed

 

[CJ1145]

Yes, it is called the cape hyrax.

WHY DO YOU EXIST.

 

[Ultracake]

I've heard about a sort of giant tick that lives in the ocean. I forgot the name of it. But what it does is swim into fishes mouths, And bites off their tongues.

It then eats the tongue inside of the fishes mouth, And attaches itself to the muscle stump.

The fish from then on uses the tick as a tongue because it fuses with the base of the gnawed off tongue., and the tick eats part of whatever the fish eats.

I've seen pictures of it in a fishes mouth, Thing looks evil as hell.

This tick has a particular place in my heart for extinction

 

[Plazmatic]

Mosquitoes, ticks(don't know about the spelling) and many of the parasitic worms that live inside the bodies of a host.

I don't know about mosquitos as a lot of animals eat them. But I'll support you on ticks. They are "useless", not part of any cycle.

"The parasitic Ichneumon wasp Ixodiphagus hookeri has long been investigated for its potential to control tick populations. It lays its eggs into ticks; the hatching wasps kill their host."

"Another natural form of control for ticks is the guineafowl, a bird species which consumes mass quantities of ticks.[citation needed] Just 2 birds can clear 2 acres (8,100 m2) in a single year."

fun fact: ticks are arachnids, like spiders and only the female drinks blood, a common trait among a lot of blood sucking animals.

 

[Sir_Tor]

The only animal that the world could do without is humans. But Botflys and tapeworm. Any parasitic thing doesn't really serve anything so whya re they here?

 

[Nargleblarg]

...enter the platypus

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

I have to say Mosquitos are quite useless. The only purpose i could see them serving is a way to keep population in check since they hold so many diseases.

 

[Plazmatic]

I have to say Mosquitos are quite useless. The only purpose i could see them serving is a way to keep population in check since they hold so many diseases.

wow, really? do you read before you post?

i heard about a scientific study that prooved mosqitoes were the only living thing that wasn't the main part of the diet of any other organism. Basically the mosqitoe could be completely eradiacted and while there would be an imballance in the food chain it would recover. On ther other hand mosqitoes do help to controll the human population ie. by spreading deases and making the outside less appealing therefor promoting obesety.

Fun fact: The femal mosqitoe is the blood sucking monster whilst the male mosqitoe's only purpose is to reproduce...

First your statement that they are not the main part of any diet is false, instead of blindly believing things, look it up for yourself...

"The dragonfly nymph eats mosquitoes at all stages of development and is quite effective in controlling populations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxorhynchites

I already disproved some one else who thought the same.

 

[Sir_Tor]

Everything serves a purpose, but we may not know what it serves or even see a difference in anything if, say, all the mosquitoes stopped existing. Sure, it would change something, but it may not be noticeable to us.

less food for the birds, I think we would notice a sudden decline in the number of birds as they love mosquitoes

 

[Ultracake]

We don't actually know all of the links in the food web yet. Killing ANY species could have unprecedented results.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

I have to say Mosquitos are quite useless. The only purpose i could see them serving is a way to keep population in check since they hold so many diseases.

wow, really? do you read before you post?

i heard about a scientific study that prooved mosqitoes were the only living thing that wasn't the main part of the diet of any other organism. Basically the mosqitoe could be completely eradiacted and while there would be an imballance in the food chain it would recover. On ther other hand mosqitoes do help to controll the human population ie. by spreading deases and making the outside less appealing therefor promoting obesety.

Fun fact: The femal mosqitoe is the blood sucking monster whilst the male mosqitoe's only purpose is to reproduce...

First your statement that they are not the main part of any diet is false, instead of blindly believing things, look it up for yourself...

"The dragonfly nymph eats mosquitoes at all stages of development and is quite effective in controlling populations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxorhynchites

I already disproved some one else who thought the same.

Uh, yeah, i said that the only reason i could SEE the mosquitos...ect. I never said that it was a fact, just and assumtion, it is the only logical reason for their existance that comes to mind.

 

[thenoblitt]

Im gonna say sloths

 

[Plazmatic]

The only animal that the world could do without is humans. But Botflys and tapeworm. Any parasitic thing doesn't really serve anything so whya re they here?

looked it up, couldn't really find any thing that ate them, though I do know that blot flies help decay flesh, but so do houseflies, which don't normally go on live animals any way, so yeah it looks like the blot fly does not have a reason to exist, and the tapeworm likewise, it doesn't look like anything kills those either.

 

[Tyrannowalefish_Rex]

All species have the same purpose or none.

 

[Motakikurushi]

Insects always fascinate me. Some, like the Housefly, terrify me; horrific creatures, but they're one of the most useful.
Ironically, Pandas are pretty useless. What do they do again, apart from eat?

 

[ottenni]

Allot of the animals that seem to be the most useless are the ones that could be described as the cleaners. Flies and the like that clean up carcasses and debris. Trust me you don't want all the worlds flies to suddenly dissapear. Ultimately all animals fill in some kind of niche. Well pandas kind of struggle, carnivores that cant eat meat, what the hell.

 

[Joey245]

All animals are intertwined with each other. The insects serve as food for the small animals, the small animals serve as food for larger animals, and the larger animals serve to keep the population of pests down and when they die, their corpses fertilize the soil, which grows the plants herbivores need to survive. With lots of herbivores, the larger animals have more food. It's an endless cycle, and one easily disrupted.

That said, I never did like peacocks...

 

[nick_knack]

Even the most useless animal serves a purpose, say if one animal died out, it would really fuck up the food chain.

Not.....really...at all. There is such a thing as a keystone species, where that applies but otherwise....nope.

Pandas are a prominent example of a useless species, and there are other, obscure species that die off all the time, (a few a month), that essentially have no effect on the big picture.

 

[GreyWolf257]

I think all creatures have a purpose, even if that purpose is only to annoy the living fuck out of people.