I'm sorry but it seems you forgot to add the Rock Hyrax. If this was a mistake, don't let it happen again. If this was your intention, then I have bad news for you
I also remember reading a while ago, that they're one of the handful of species that commit gang rape. Like a group of males will headbutt a female into unconciousness.
Funny thing is that it's exactly the reason I put them so low, just they didn't do that on head, but on car, places for sitting etc and when we were little, me and my brother tried to catch them since our grandpa and cousin like to prepare meals exactly like with chickens but they were always too fast and always escaped lmao.
Only reason for them not being in D is that I find the insects above too disgusting and had even worse experience with them lmao and bald eagle being bald eagle.
I hate finding cockroaches in my home but I've definitely found an appreciation for them in general. They're pretty important to the world's ecosystem.
You are seriously underrating panthers, dolphins, and giraffes. You are overrating scorpions, chimps, and cassowaries, as well as orangutans, though I am loathe to admit it.
Dolphins are... yeah they were high on my list before I found out some things about them, look it up, Giraffes are mid/average, Panthers are just generic big cats so not special(check out black wolves for peak badassery). Scorpions are literally one of my trademark creatures, and no, apes and dinosaurs cannot be put high enough lmao
Dolphins are... yeah they were high on my list before I found out some things about them, look it up
Intelligent animals have a high degree of differentiated personalities and cultures. Some dolphins are really bad dudes, but that can't be generalized to all dolphins any more than [x bad act] can be generalized to all humans, or blaming fighting ring dogs for holding on to their conditioning. Dolphins raised in more pro-social environments will turn out more pro-social.
Octopi are also highly individual (though they don't really have cultures because they are solitary, unless their distributed intelligence interacting with itself counts as a culture) for the same reason.
apes and dinosaurs cannot be put high enough lmao
That said, if you are really worried about animals committing heinous acts of torture and sexual violence, I've got some absolutely dire news for you about chimps.
Tier lists originated in video game culture pretty much. It's a way to try to subjectively rank things within a game by its viability. The s tier thing comes from Japan I believe, where in some academic cases they give an S grade for excellent performance. In the context of tier lists the reason there might be a S+ tier is because some characters might be really really good and are in S tier but some characters are just way better than everyone else and are in a league of their own.
The jaguar (onça-pintada) should be higher. They are arguably the most powerful predators of the Americas. They can run up to 80 Km/h; they can climb trees; they have jaws strong enough to crush bones; they are proficient swimmers, being able to hunt prey in the water, including alligators; their roar is bone-shivering; they are stunning and iconic; they are important for the ecosystem balance. Note that while the jaguar may be phisically similar to the African leopard, the jaguar is faster and stronger, and a better swimmer.
Last I checked Grizzlies and other bears live in American continent so that rules out the most powerful. Yes all other big cats do the same thing, and they don't hunt alligators but caimans, alligators are too big. It's basically just a black version of other big cats.
The animal I talked about is called "onça-pintada". It's not necessarily black. It's the third biggest feline, being smaller than the tiger and the lion. It's the most powerful predator in Amazon rainforest. People often say it's the most powerful in the Americas, but they are wrong, then. I didn't know the english words for "onça-pintada" and "jacaré" and just put them in translator.
u forgot to put the Secretarybird in god tier u know the coolest bird. also the portuguese man o' wars is a strong d tier contender those things are weird and disgusting and they sting.