GAY TRANSHUMANIST..... I KNOW U HAVE BEEN CHECKING MY POSTS OUT

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Anyway let’s not pretend like we don’t love the fact that there are still some big predators that can fuck us up. Lions and wolves and crocodiles and sharks wouldn’t have nearly the cultural impact they do if we weren’t in awe of their capacity to bite our heads off. So yeah this is my top ten list of modern predators (within some reasonable limitations of physics) that I wish were also big enough that we ever have to beware them:

You’ve left off one incredibly important addition personally, in my opinion.

I didn’t include any giant predatory insects or arachnids because they’d have so much difficulty functioning in the current state of our planet. Even the animals I mention would probably have pretty different proportions and lifestyles if they really evolved the size of a hippo as it is. I have however already talked in the past about how I wish we had a reasonably large bloodsucking insect. Not a deadly one, not a disease carrier, just something that pesters livestock and bites unwary humans only just often enough to inspire the kind of fear and awe we have of vampire bats, yeah? I can’t find my old post about it anymore but I’d want it to be one of these, a lousefly: