Animal Wars Ua Round 1

[cursona pirate]

Good Afternoon!
First I would like to thank Ravens <3 for this idea. This is a tournament for animals if they fought each other to DEATH. There will be 5 divisions: Large Land Animals (LLA), Medium Land Animals (MLA), Small Land Animals (SLA), Underwater Animals (UA), and Mystical Creature (MC).
The round of each tournament will be done for each division through the poll and you vote for your favorite. Voting stops at the end of the month (4/30/12).

Winner with most votes get a bye week.

Animals:

Giant Squid
Swordfish

Great White Shark
Killer Whale

Plesiosauria
Blue Whale

[IMissMattStover]

Who voted swordfish lol? Not a chance. And a blue whale is big, but effectively useless in combat lol.

[cursona pirate]

Swordfish I guess could cut the tentacles. I voted giant squid.

[flynismo]

Swordfish is great, if you grill 'em just right. The Giant Squid won't need the grill though

[flynismo]

Killer Whales kill and eat Great Whites in real life, sooo......

[IMissMattStover]

[quote name='flynismo' timestamp='1333418799' post='1040606']
Killer Whales kill and eat Great Whites in real life, sooo......
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Exactly. I voted KWs.

[cursona pirate]

[quote name='flynismo' timestamp='1333418799' post='1040606']
Killer Whales kill and eat Great Whites in real life, sooo......
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But sharks are cooler. Jaws killed a killer whale in Jaws the video game which is accurate. It would be a blood bath.

[Ravenslifer]

Don't know why you'd even consider the Pleisiosaur over the blue whale. The Blue whale is like two times the size and probably close to 10 times the weight (it's only a third bigger than a sperm whale and the sperm whale weighs 63 tons - the blue whale weighs about 200 tons or more). The whale would just crush the Pleisiosaur, or at least force it deep underwater, and IDK if it can handle the depths.

[IMissMattStover]

[quote name='Ravenslifer' timestamp='1333423697' post='1040730']
Don't know why you'd even consider the Pleisiosaur over the blue whale. The Blue whale is like two times the size and probably close to 10 times the weight (it's only a third bigger than a sperm whale and the sperm whale weighs 63 tons - the blue whale weighs about 200 tons or more). The whale would just crush the Pleisiosaur, or at least force it deep underwater, and IDK if it can handle the depths.
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The Blue Whale is so large that maneuvering would be tough. On top of that, it has no combat potential. No teeth, no claws. Not even a violent nature. The Plesiosaur would just zip in and out biting until the BW was exhausted and bleeding.

[Purple Nurple]

Boy. You sure do know everything, don't you? Why even bother to participate, what with your omnipotence and all? Kinda takes the fun out of it.

[IMissMattStover]

[quote name='Purple Nurple' timestamp='1333461360' post='1040841']
Boy. You sure do know everything, don't you? Why even bother to participate, what with your omnipotence and all? Kinda takes the fun out of it.
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Lol im sensing a strong dose of sarcasm. I just love to learn, so I know a lot of useless stuff lol. And when I dont know, I read up about it.

[cursona pirate]

[quote name='Purple Nurple' timestamp='1333461360' post='1040841']
Boy. You sure do know everything, don't you? Why even bother to participate, what with your omnipotence and all? Kinda takes the fun out of it.
[/quote]
The blue whale is really immobile actually!

[Ravenslifer]

[quote name='IMissMattStover' timestamp='1333454976' post='1040798'] The Blue Whale is so large that maneuvering would be tough. On top of that, it has no combat potential. No teeth, no claws. Not even a violent nature. The Plesiosaur would just zip in and out biting until the BW was exhausted and bleeding. [/quote]

Blue whale males have been observed and filmed fighting for mating. Doesn't need teeth to fight, it can build up to speed and ram the pleisosaur (which has been observed in mating fights) - a Plesiosaur was not designed for deep sea combat. The blue whale would force it underwater and drown it. And for a big animal, I'd say it maneuvers pretty well. Also of note, blue whales often get into fights with other animals, like pods of killer whales, and larger sharks, and most of the time they survive - so facing down one lone animal smaller than a killer whale and winning should be no issue.

[cursona pirate]

[quote name='Ravenslifer' timestamp='1333496696' post='1041434']
Blue whale males have been observed and filmed fighting for mating. Doesn't need teeth to fight, it can build up to speed and ram the pleisosaur (which has been observed in mating fights) - a Plesiosaur was not designed for deep sea combat. The blue whale would force it underwater and drown it. And for a big animal, I'd say it maneuvers pretty well. Also of note, blue whales often get into fights with other animals, like pods of killer whales, and larger sharks, and most of the time they survive - so facing down one lone animal smaller than a killer whale and winning should be no issue.
[/quote]Plesiosaurs are pretty big. They were one of the top animals back in the day.

[Purple Nurple]

[quote name='cursona pirate' timestamp='1333479171' post='1041236']

The blue whale is really immobile actually!
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So they drift on the tide? Lol. My money is still on "My boy, BLUE whale!"

[Purple Nurple]

[quote name='cursona pirate' timestamp='1333503683' post='1041578']
Plesiosaurs are pretty big. They were one of the top animals back in the day.
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As I know it, the blue whale is the biggest animal to live on earth, ever.

[cursona pirate]

[quote name='Purple Nurple' timestamp='1333505703' post='1041620']
As I know it, the blue whale is the biggest animal to live on earth, ever.
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No your getting mistaken with my huge hairy sweaty...

feet.

[Purple Nurple]

You're an insane hobbit. I knew it.

[Purple Nurple]

[quote name='cursona pirate' timestamp='1333505808' post='1041621']

No your getting mistaken with my huge hairy sweaty...

feet.
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I hereby and henceforth name you GOLLUM.

[codizzle]

[quote name='Purple Nurple' timestamp='1333506239' post='1041633']

I hereby and henceforth name you GOLLUM.
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And what shall be his Precious?

[Purple Nurple]

[quote name='codizzle' timestamp='1333506664' post='1041640']

And what shall be his Precious?
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Imissmattstover

[codizzle]

[quote name='Purple Nurple' timestamp='1333506913' post='1041648']

Imissmattstover
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Haha knew that was coming

[flynismo]

[quote name='Ravenslifer' timestamp='1333496696' post='1041434']
Blue whale males have been observed and filmed fighting for mating. Doesn't need teeth to fight, it can build up to speed and ram the pleisosaur (which has been observed in mating fights) - a Plesiosaur was not designed for deep sea combat. The blue whale would force it underwater and drown it. And for a big animal, I'd say it maneuvers pretty well. Also of note, blue whales often get into fights with other animals, like pods of killer whales, and larger sharks, and most of the time they survive - so facing down one lone animal smaller than a killer whale and winning should be no issue.
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Dude, anything with a 10 foot long "appendage" is alright in my book!

[Purple Nurple]

[quote name='flynismo' timestamp='1333511490' post='1041694']


Dude, anything with a 10 foot long "appendage" is alright in my book!
[/quote]

I knew it!

[Ravenslifer]

[quote name='cursona pirate' timestamp='1333503683' post='1041578']
Plesiosaurs are pretty big. They were one of the top animals back in the day.
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The maximum size a pleisosaurus has ever been known to grow is about 20 meters - however more than half of that was it's vulnerable neck - imagine a giraffe in the water. So we're talking about at best it being 2/3 the length of the blue whale, easily less than half it's weight given most of the length comes from the neck, and we're talking about a creature that swam in comparatively very warm waters. If the blue whale has no natural predators now, I'd find it difficult to imagine they'd find the plesiosaur very threatening. Now if we're talking Megalodon or L. Melvillei, I'd agree - but I just don't see plesiosaurus being able to beat an animal so much bigger than it when it has almost no weapons - it's teeth look more like they were designed for catching fish i.e. long and pointed like mako or tiger sharks (sorry for the science spiel, but I was a biology major in college and vertebrate and evolutionary biology were my concentrations). I don't think it could inflict the kind of damage required to beat a blue whale when a lot of sharks today can't do the job.

[flynismo]

[quote name='Purple Nurple' timestamp='1333511636' post='1041698']
I knew it! [img]http://content.boards.baltimoreravens.com//public/style_emoticons/default/tongue.png[/img]
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haha, as soon as I hit "Enter", I realized I just opened up a huge can o' worms! So to speak...

[Purple Nurple]

I loves me some Megalodon. Teeth like hands. Any shark that eats whales is alright in my book.

[Ravenslifer]

[quote name='flynismo' timestamp='1333511490' post='1041694']
Dude, anything with a 10 foot long "appendage" is alright in my book!
[/quote]

I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that. On the other hand, it explains why they decided to go back into the water - could you imagine having to walk around on land and deal with gravity while having that thing weigh you down?

[codizzle]

[quote name='Ravenslifer' timestamp='1333512203' post='1041708']


I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that. On the other hand, it explains why they decided to go back into the water - could you imagine having to walk around on land and deal with gravity while having that thing weigh you down?
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Why yes, yes I can....

[IMissMattStover]

Dear god this has gotten so far off topic lol.