5 Innocuous Animals Who Are Now Terrorizing Humanity

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Peacock Is Too Powerful for Taser

Peacocks are beautiful animals, even if they are competing with the great tit for the naughtiest avian name out there. But a Houston man saw a dark side of the bird when his pet 'cock Meanie grew increasingly hostile toward human women.

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"Hey, toots, how about we smush our cloacae together? Yeah, I've been drinking since noon. What's it to you?"

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Escaped Camel Tries to Eat Man's Head

Even though camels have a reputation for regurgitating on people, we usually regard them as trusty beasts of burden. This definitely wasn't the case for a 71-year-old California man who randomly found himself in the cross hairs of a camel who ran away from an exotic animal ranch, presumably because some chiseled, grizzled cowboy kept feeding it cigarettes.

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He'd later learn his second hump was cancer.

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Whale Slaps Woman in the Face

Imagine you're on a whale-watching boat when suddenly a pod of curious and playful gray whales sidles up next to you. What happens next? Does that Michael Jackson song from Free Willy start blaring from the heavens? Do the whales begin shooting rainbows out of their blowholes like a Lisa Frank fever dream?

Well, if you're this Nova Scotia woman visiting Baja California, this happens:

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Being Canadian, she immediately drafted a letter of apology to the whale.

That's right: In an effort to engage the happy pixies chirping on the surface, one of these seagoing giants accidentally thwacked the woman hard enough to bruise her shoulder. The real questions now are A) if she's cursed with the mark of the werewhale and B) if her family should invest in a silver harpoon for the next full moon.

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Baby Moose Beats the Crap Out of Scientist

Moose aren't charmers, but you expect their wee ones to be at least somewhat polite, right? Well, after fitting a moose calf with a radio collar, a Maine wildlife researcher expected it to caper off and someday be impregnated by Bullwinkle or whatever. Instead, this mooseling did a 180 and promptly kicked the man's ass, twice in one minute.

Note that the moose steamrollered him upon being referred to as a "little girl" and a "mean girl" -- obviously this poor dude's stumbled upon the trigger word from some abandoned CIA project to weaponize the Seattle Mariners' mascot.

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Roving Packs of Chihuahuas Terrorize Phoenix

What happens when you cross Alfred Hitchcock with extraordinarily irritating 1990s Taco Bell commercials? You get the dilemma that the city of Phoenix now faces -- that is, packs of eight to 12 football-size animals running rampant through the streets, terrorizing schoolchildren, joggers, and the lawns and shins of the innocent.

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"I didn't choose thug life. Thug life chose me."

How bad is it? Animal control authorities received over 6,000 calls about feral Chihuahuas running loose in Phoenix's Maryvale neighborhood in 2013. If there's a silver lining to this veritable Chihuapocalypse, it's that at least they aren't mastiffs.

Aaron Granger is a chemist and writes about science projects in his spare time. He updates his website, (Im)practical Science, roughly whenever.

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