Well, perhaps not all God's critters . . .

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David Rock

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David Rock's Top Ten Critters that Don't Have Knives

1. Liver Fluke
2. Slug
3. Planarian
4. Amphioxus
5. Paramecium
6. Plasmodium
7. Ascaris worm
8. Night crawler
9. Baleen whales
10. Sea Monkeys

 
Actually Sea Monkeys are some viscious creatures, and they fight terribly when cornered. I sure wouldn't want to meet one in a dark alley....

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It seems that sheep and guinea pigs also have no means of defense. (humans also need a tool).
sal
 
Well, actually there is a sheeplike critter in the poster (in the upper right-hand corner). I deliberately excluded rodents from my list because their prominent incisors must surely qualify as matter separators.

[This message has been edited by David Rock (edited 23 January 1999).]
 
Don't forget the amoeba!

Any mammal except for baleen whales has a some body part with a point or an edge: tooth/tusk, claw/hoof, or horn/antler, whether or not ever serves as a weapon as we understand the term. A knife is primarily an universal tool, that makes food and clothing and shelter possible, and a weapon only in the gravest extreme when there's nothing bigger or better at hand.

There are critters with very effective defenses that do not involved matter separation. Skunks come to mind.

A knifeless creature would be a filter feeder or something that swallows things whole without the aid of teeth, and never separated matter for any other purpose either.

So it's almost all God's critters that have knives.

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All God's best creatures have knives.
Anything else, is just a creature.

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While feeding a Guinea pig I had the living $#^% bit out of me. Seems the little pig had no clue where the carrot ended and my finger began. So I don't think they qualify as critters without knives
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The live fluke(and pretty much any GI tract parasite) has lots of knives. They have little teeth to attach themselves to the inside of whatever part they like. Many also have little cutters for burrowing into stomach/intestine linings and severing blood vessels.
Aaron (ug, that was a little more grusome than I intended)
 
Did you know that slugs are among the creatures with the most teeth? They have thousands of spikes on their tongue which are called teeth. If you were an algae you would be very careful to mess with slugs.
 
Okay. So liver flukes and slugs have knives. That's what happens when a Spanish professor tries to impress people with his knowledge of the animal kingdom. Let this be a lesson to all of us.

So I'll edit my top-ten list. I'll delete the liver fluke and the slug, and add James Mattis's amoeba and maybe throw in a volvox for good measure.

Do leaches have teeth, or do they just suck really hard?
 
David,

What sort of leaches are we talking about???

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We have two guinea pigs. Having trained themselves in several lethal open-paw martial techniques (shrew-tan-do to mention one), they never see the need to bite. The goldfish, however, is looking for a small quality lightweight stainless fixed blade with a custom sheath just in case he has a late-night encounter with some unseemly amphibian.
 
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