The Mabamba Swamps west of Entebbe is one of the best and most convenient places to see the elusive Shoebill. Oh, and they have that signature bill that’s shaped less like a shoe and more like a crudely-made medieval torture device.The Mabamba Wetlands a paradise for birds and home of the Shoebill.īest place to see the Shoebill is the Mabamba Swamps
They creep around on these long legs with huge feet that look like they’re made for crushing human skulls. They can grow up to five feet tall, meaning that they would look down at Simone Biles from a considerable height advantage. If I were to run into a shoebill stork in the wild, I would probably become convinced that I had accidentally stepped into a time machine and ended up in the Cretaceous period. I would imagine that pulling a wolffish onto your boat when you’re trying to catch a sturgeon or a striped bass would be a pretty scarring experience, but that’s just me. Nope, you can take a trip up to Maine and probably catch a wolf fish by accident. Unlike some of the other marine terrors on this list, you don’t have to go to remote rivers in sub-Saharan Africa to find a wolffish. But then I remember that these creatures can grow to up to 5 feet long and have been known to bite people with their protruding, wolf-like teeth and my sympathy turns to dread and horror. Let’s bring it back to the amazing and terrifying world of the big, blue sea for another scary animal that pretty much embodies the phrase “existence is pain.” The experience of being a wolffish just doesn’t look like a comfortable one. And it’s pretty comforting to know that they’re almost entirely subterranean creatures because the last thing I want is to stumble across a naked mole rat on my way to the supermarket. Of course, they wouldn’t really be staring at you considering that they’re almost entirely blind (an evolutionary result of them living underground for pretty much their entire lives). Immediately, I can’t stop thinking how awful it would be to wake up in the middle of the night and find your naked mole rat standing on your chest and staring you in the face. Oddly enough, some people keep naked mole rats as pets. The fact that this animal exists in real life and is swimming around in the Congo River basin is just absolutely horrifying. The goliath tigerfish looks like it was made to star in the 2004 film Frankenfish.
If you thought piranhas and barracudas were the only terrifying carnivorous fish out there, you were sorely mistaken. This list of seven scary animals will make you never want to go outside again. So, if anyone reading this is already verging on agoraphobia (fear of going outside one’s own home), it’s probably better that you exit out of this window at once. While I fully understand that even the scariest animals out there have important roles to play in their ecosystems, personally, I hope that they play those roles as far away from me as possible. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I can’t imagine anyone would rather hug a python than a poodle.
It’s difficult to wrap your mind around the fact that the process of evolution made animals as cute as baby pandas, but also made animals as terrifying as tarantulas. While it’s important to respect all forms of life and remember that other animals have just as much of a right to be on this planet as we humans do, there are some animals out there that are just downright scary. We humans are fortunate enough to share our planet with a massive array of different organisms that sustain our ecosystems, make for hilarious memes, inspire us every day, and generally make the Earth a more diverse and interesting place. Earth is filled with amazing and awe-inspiring creatures of all shapes and sizes.
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