If any animal bite could give you super powers, what animal do you want to be bitten by and which super power do you hope to get?

Have you considered switching to indicas?

Based on the internet it also seems like every creature on earth is totally down to give a capybara a piggyback ride. I assume that influence is part of the capybara's powers.

I think peter from dead pool got that one

That was super interesting, thanks for linking that!

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.

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

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Ok, I'm giving up on the cuttlefish powers for this. Also I'm be soft and flexy and faster than I already am! Also secret claws!

Most importantly, I can figure out how to be comfortable practically anywhere!

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

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.

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

Why get bit by a cat? I'd picka mosquito. Been there, done that 1000 times already...

"I'm sorry officer, it's not my fault I was going 60, I forgot to reconfigure my leg muscles"

"Man-Man! He's bestowed with all the powers of a man... but he's a man."

"Oh, I bet Man-Man gets his powers from Robert Bly!"

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Comments like this is why I love Lemmy.

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

This is actually very attainable, although don't do the second part :(

Me also. Be nice to sleep 8 hours again and feel good in the morning.

That would be fun to randomly swim around.

This is excellent. I have a very long list.

Unfortunately, the bites also transfer all mental/emotional baggage.

Fuck, I just got a duck beak.

Spider would be cool tbh. Tho what if you get their fucked up reproductive process where the female lays dozens or hundreds of eggs at once and also maybe tries to Eat her male partner, depending on species.

Or like, you lose your teeth and have to eat by injecting caustic fluid inside Whole Organisms to dissolve their tissues and slurp them up with your Newly-Formed palps/pedi-palps.

You might get venom, which is cool, but most spiders are only venomous to other arthropods because most spiders hunt primarily arthropods (occasionally small amphibians or reptiles for larger species, a couple tarrantulas are known to opportunistically hunt rodents or bird hatchlings, but they don't have venom to begin with, so whatever). Unless you get a black widow or brown recluse or something. A dose of that vemon from a human sized Black Widow or Brown Recluse chimera (the Type of Thing you are now) would like 99% be enough to kill a person

If you want cool eyes, go with the Mantis Shrimp tbh, they've got like 7 or 8 different cone cells for everything from ultraviolet to infrared. IIRC scientists don't think their brains are powerful enough to fully use all that info at once, but I feel like connecting that to a brain that's like 1000x as powerful would fix that.

I'd hope you'd just get the extra cone cells and not compund eyes tho, compound eyes would be Difficult for a human to adopt to, since our visual cortices evolved to process two high resolution visual streams and not like,, 100 shitty visual streams.

I think you could just plug an eye with extra cone types directly into a human brain tho, there are people born with tetrachromia (4th cone cell that extends a bit into the ultraviolet iirc), and they can utilize information from the extra cone cells perfectly fine.

Afaik, the human eye lens absorbs most UV light, so people with tetrachromia can't actually see much UV, but it does give them way more precise color vision overall, because instead of infering colors based on 4 values (red, green, blue, and overall brightness), you're adding a 5th value for violet, which makes colors that look similar to baseline humans easier to tell apart. There are people with no lens on their eyes (either a birth defect or they had to be removed) who can fully see UV radiation tho, I don't even think it requires tetrachromia, the blue cone cells are very slightly sensitive to UV if none of it is absorbed by the lens.

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

Wait, it would be cool if you could relive your childhood once in a while.