• gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    Bats, I want their crazy advanced immune system and interferon production. Bats are tiny mammals with a metabolism even faster than a rat/mouse due to the high energy needs of powered flight. Typically, small mammals with this fast of a metabolism will live like 2-5 years, because cell division is so rapid that after only a few years, the cells’ DNA becomes too damaged to continue. However, bats have insane immune systems. They’re immune (asymptomatic carriers) to nearly every virus capable of infecting them because their immune systems produce so much interferon that any damage to the DNA (eg from a virus inserting code for its own reproduction into a cell) is corrected almost immediately. This process also partially repairs damage from cell-division, meaning that bats can live up to ~40 YEARS depending on the species. If a human had that ability, it would be like living to 400 or 500 years old, and being immune to nearly every disease (between native viral immunity, and antibiotics for bacterial infections)

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Wow. I was going to say bat for flying and echolocation but will take what you are having, that is an awesome bat fact.

    • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 months ago

      Also Monitor Lizards. They’re the most intelligent squamate reptile (group that includes all living reptiles except turtles, crocodilians, and birds, who are archosauromorphs), except for possibly the cobra. But, they’re still cold-blooded, so I can just nap on a hot rock without eating for 2 days and be Fine. They do get Stupid when the temperature drops too much (lowers their metabolic rate, and intelligence uses lots of energy), but I live in Florida, so that’s fine💀. They’re also one of the only lizards that can both breathe and walk at the same time (apparently most squamate reptiles use the same muscles for breathing as moving their forelimbs?? Wack.). This is how they became so intelligent, there was more O2 coming into the body, so the overall metabolic budget to evolve stuff like Large Brain became much larger.

      Also they’re adorable, monitor lizards can be so friendly, curious, and playful, they’re like the Lizard version of cat imo. I really want one, they even like to cuddle (humans are Warm, and they’re smart enough to recognize and trust you enough to want cuddles). I’m gonna get a cute little Ackie monitor once I graduate college I think.

  • ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    A chameleon so I can get the ability to camouflage. Well as long as I don’t move. Also I think I can grab the TV remote controller with my tongue. Or do insane tricks throwing food and catching it with my tongue. And well… maybe other nice things to find out with that tongue. 🔞

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I was also going to say cat girl, especially if it means I can open up an onlyfans with my powers and make bank.

  • Plopp@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’d get bitten by a gnat, and hope for mind control.

    Edit: Y’all, the rules doesn’t say there has to be a correlation between the animal and the super power. People out here wanting to get bitten by big dangerous animals smdh

  • Today@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I would get bit by a cat because i know that’s going to happen anyway. I would choose the power to import thoughts into other people.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Everyone seems to think the question says you get powers related to the animal that bites you, but it isn’t worded that way. I’d get bit by a kitten and have the power of telekinesis, which is really multiple powers. I could fly, create forcefields, create cold or heat by moving atoms, hell, I could create all kinds of things by manipulating atoms.

    • abbadon420@lemm.eeOP
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      6 months ago

      You have cheated my system. As punishment I will make sure no super power granting animal ever bites you. Muhahaha!

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Everyone seems to think the question says you get powers related to the animal that bites you, but it isn’t worded that way.

      You cheeky fucker. I like your thinking.

    • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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      6 months ago

      If we’re being pedantic, aren’t cat bites actually super dangerous because of infections and bacteria?

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I’d say it’s a toss-up between a mongoose and a honey badger.

    Ricky ticky tavvy was a fast son of a bitch.

    And honey badger just don’t care.

    🤔

    Mongoose.

  • astrsk@kbin.run
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    6 months ago

    A predatory bird, which would give me extra cones and rods to see more colors / spectrum as well as possibly telescopic vision.

    A shark, so I can swim better and breathe underwater. Then maybe I won’t be so afraid of large bodies of water.

  • clover@piefed.socialAfaraf
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    6 months ago

    I’d go with a fox bite. The cleverness and adaptability of a fox would be perfect for handling tricky challenges.

    • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 months ago

      Idk, humans are cleverer than the average fox, it might just make you cuter (foxes are adorable) and more prone to pissing in random locations (domesticated foxes love to pee all over your shit, they can be litterbox trained, but it’s hard). Possibly claws and fangs also, which could be useful

  • Robert7301201@slrpnk.net
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    6 months ago

    Red sea urchin. Long life and limb regeneration.

    I don’t want to turn back into a baby like those who chose the immortal jellyfish.

  • moonlight@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    Octopus. I would hope to get the ability to shape shift.

    I’m answering in the spirit of the question, but it wasn’t specified that the animal has to match the power. In that case, I’d choose basically the smallest thing that could feasibly bite me. A tardigrade for example.