2006-10-03 17:23:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
I think Dennis Leary said it best:
There's the problem. We only want to save the cute animals, don't we? Yeah. Why don't we just have animal auditions. Line 'em up one by one and interview them individually. "What are you?" "I'm an otter." "And what do you do?" "I swim around on my back and do cute little human things with my hands." "You're free to go." "And what are you?" "I'm a cow." "Get in the ******* truck, ok pal!" "But I'm an animal." "You're a baseball glove! Get on that truck!"
2006-10-03 17:34:07 · answer #1 · answered by Zim 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It all depends on how you define cute. I consider spiders to be cute, but they are killed a lot (yes, I know I'm strange). I think it is more along the lines of we thing what we don't kill is cute. Why would we consider food to be cute? It would make us not want to eat it. In places that eat dogs and cats, they consider then to be gross, and many people can not imagine having then as pets. And the reverse is also true. Some cultures worship cows, which we think is strange because we eat them. They think it is gross that we eat cows. I think it is the same with plants too. The ones we want are considered beautiful, and the rest are weeds. But if you look at weeds, they are often just as beautiful as the non-weed plants.
2006-10-04 11:58:36 · answer #2 · answered by Kiko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, if you know better, there is no such thing as an ugly animal. When it comes to an animal’s morphological appearance it’s “form and function go hand in hand”. An animal is beautiful when they are well evolved and adapted to meet their environment, just like a dog in a dog show is judged on confirmation. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Look at humans compared to other mammals were pretty odd looking. To me all animals are beautiful.
2006-10-04 15:42:11 · answer #3 · answered by uroplatis 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no ugly animals, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and for me, the animal kingdom has a lot to teach humans.
Just one example, animals only kill for food!
2006-10-04 00:29:56 · answer #4 · answered by fed up with stupid questions 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Definitely!! They have done studies where they put a rubber snake on the road to see if people would avoid it...BUT it turned out that 75% or the drivers WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY to swerve to run over the snake!!
2006-10-04 11:20:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard that the dogs and cats became more puppy and kitten like to survive in our ugly-tystical society.
2006-10-04 01:06:36 · answer #6 · answered by JimZ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, rats will get killed anytime but a puppy or kitten will escape death
2006-10-04 01:32:38 · answer #7 · answered by Totoru 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kind of ya. Because for example it would be harder to kill a bunny then a snake right.
2006-10-04 01:49:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
cute ness is some what became the evolution to survive in human world.....
i guess 200 years from now, even mosquito is cute...
2006-10-04 00:40:05 · answer #9 · answered by Henry W 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes. rats are supposedly as smart as dogs! but rats are ugly, so they get killed.
2006-10-04 00:26:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋