Top Ten Animals We Don't Eat That Might Taste Good

The Top Ten
1 Swan Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus. The swans' close relatives include the geese and ducks.

Who is "WE"?
At least 7 of the listed animals, including swans, are regularly eaten by humans. by the way, piranhas taste just like any other flaky white meat fish.

This animal tastes good, real good. I remember when I was a kid, I ate roast swan only during Chinese New Year at my village.

Probably tastes like a moderately richer form of goose. Marinated in rosemary and garlic, and you have perfection!

ISSA Bird and chicken tastes so good so I'm guessing it'll be good

2 Elephant Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea, extinct relatives include mammoths and mastodons. Distinctive features of elephants include a long proboscis called a trunk, tusks, large ear flaps, pillar-like legs, and tough but sensitive skin. The trunk is used for breathing, bringing food and water to the mouth, and grasping objects. Tusks, which are derived from the incisor teeth, serve both as weapons and as tools for moving objects and digging. The large ear flaps assist in ...read more.

A very rich meat. The dream steak, but one which would take longer to grill.

3 Giraffe The giraffe is a tall African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus Giraffa. It is the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant- hoofed herbivorous- on Earth. Traditionally, giraffes were thought to be one species, Giraffa camelopardalis, with nine subspecies. Most recently, researchers ...read more.
4 Bear Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae. They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere and partially in the Southern Hemisphere. Bears are found on the continents of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Common characteristics of modern bears include large bodies with stocky legs, long snouts, small rounded ears, shaggy hair, plantigrade paws with five nonretractile claws, and short tails. ...read more.

Depends on which bear. In Russia, they eat bear as a delicacy. However, polar bears can't be eaten because you'd die of Vitamin C overdose.

A friend who hunts gave me a bear steak once. It was very greasy--not something I'd eat again.

Pretty much just like beef pot roast, so it depends on if you like that or not.

Oh, I have eaten bear before ^^ the time I had it, it was very sweet but hard to chew, it was very tough. I wouldn't say it's the best..

5 Penguin

I've actually heard that penguins are some of the only animals humans will avoid eating, because their meat is tough and awful-tasting. The leopard seals obviously didn't get the memo, though.

6 Seal Pinnipeds, commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals in the clade Pinnipedia. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur ...read more.
7 Rhinoceros
8 Piranha A piranha or piraña, a member of family Characidae in order Characiformes, is a freshwater fish that inhabits South American rivers, floodplains, lakes and reservoirs.

Probably light and crispy, served like battered whitebait.

9 Seagull
10 Crocodile Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators ...read more.

Not to be trite, but the truth about crocodile and alligator meat is that "it tastes just like chicken".

It would probably taste like leather. But then again we would take the scales off right?

Crocodile meat tastes good.

The Contenders
11 Dog The dog or domestic dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf, and is characterized by an upturning tail. The dog is derived from an ancient, extinct wolf, and the modern wolf is the dog's nearest living relative. The dog was the first species to be domesticated, by hunter–gatherers over 15,000 years ago, before the development of agriculture. Due to their long association with humans, dogs have expanded to a large number of domestic individuals and gained the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet that would be inadequate for other canids. ...read more.

Some chinese eat raw dog meat with chinese liquor, I never ate it, but I guess that doesn't taste good.

Dogs also taste good

12 Human Humans (Homo sapiens) are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and large, complex brains. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, and language. Humans are highly social and tend to live in complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks to political states. Social interactions between humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals, which bolster human society. Curiosity and the human desire to understand and influence the environment and to explain and manipulate phenomena have motivated humanity's development of science, philosophy, mythology, ...read more.

There's a reason why there're cannibals... Nah really now this is disgusting. I love animals ( all kind of animals ) but you say eating a piranha or something is the same thing as eating a human. However, cannibals seem to like human meat so maybe it actually IS delicious... Whatever.

Isn't that cannibalism?

I think it tastes good

13 Bat Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera. With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium. The smallest bat, and... read more
14 Sea Cucumber

What do you mean people don't eat them? My 99 Ranch market sells sea cucmbers, along with other meats hard to get here, like rabbit, goat, and squab.

They look so distgusting! Wait, maybe they do because there're actually very yummy and don't want to get eaten?

15 Cat The cat (Felis catus) is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. ...read more.
16 Tiger The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest living cat species and a member of the genus Panthera. It is most recognisable for its dark vertical stripes on orange fur with a white underside. An apex predator, it primarily preys on ungulates such as deer and wild boar. It is territorial and generally a solitary but social predator, requiring large contiguous areas of habitat, which support its requirements for prey and rearing of its offspring. Tiger cubs stay with their mother for about two years, then become independent and leave their mother's home range to establish their own. ...read more.
17 Polar Bear The polar bear is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses.
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