Now Lions, Tigers, elephants, even Hedgehogs are quite cool names, but what possessed the person that named the ANTEATER!!

So any other really lame animal names ?

Aardvark?

Naked mole rat.

Aardvark is all kinds of cooooool
Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside.

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Aardvark is all kinds of cooooool
Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside.

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Your scaring me Ben:eek:

How about the dik-dik! He's my favorite! :p

Google-eye bass fish
Horny toad
Goatsucker

Spider monkeys

Porcupines

Hissing cockroaches

Muskrats

Mongoose

Sea cucumbers

Sea lions...

What about the letigra? (Pronounce La-Teeg-ra.)

-Napolian Dynomite.

Xoloitzcuintli - Ok technically not an animals it's a breed, but it's pretty darn weird.
Pronounced Show-Low-Eats-Quent-Lee

How about an eel?
I bet the first person who saw one went EEW so they stuck with it :D

Platypus! (not sure if its spelled rite) =)

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Platypus! (not sure if its spelled rite) =)

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Southern hairy-nosed wombat

Stinky Turtle

Slippery (fish)
Colon rectum (beetle)
Agra vation (beetle)
Aha ha (australian wasp)

Fat sand rat

A sea cucumber is pretty lame.

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A sea cucumber is pretty lame.

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Opossum... or as we call them here.. possums and no we don't eat them:D

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opossum...or as we call them here..possums and no we don't eat them:D

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But the eat 'em here where I live! :eek:

NASTY! YUCK! GREASY!

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But the eat 'em here where I live! :eek:

NASTY!! YUCK!! GREASY!!

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J... :eek:possums:eek::D




Hairy long-nosed armadillo.

Cocka-poo

From the other side:

The most perfectly named animal is the yak; that's what you do whenever you smell one.

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From the other side:

The most perfectly named animal is the yak; that's what you do whenever you smell one.

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Llama... meercat

Snotty Trevally - Apparently they taste really nice but I think I will pass

Yellow bellied sap sucker. It's a bird.

Zu. Just so I can swear. :)

Edit: It didn't let me type it! But it's a dog breed! Oh for goodness sake. ;)

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Yellow bellied sap sucker. It's a bird.

zu. Just so I can swear. :)

Edit: It didn't let me type it! But it's a dog breed! Oh for goodness sake. ;)

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Use the alternate spelling - Shih-tzu

Pronounced She-Zoo ;)

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Pronounced She-Zoo ;)

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But then it's not scatological.

I don't want to spell or say it correctly. My way is more fun. :)

Besides, their names kind of fit their looks.

Just my opinion. :)

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I don't want to spell or say it correctly. My way is more fun. :)

Besides, their names kind of fit their looks.

Just my opinion. :)

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And the temperament of most I've dealt with. So I guess the name is appropriate and not so lame.

Now "men" is a lame name.

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And the temperament of most I've dealt with. So I guess the name is appropriate and not so lame.

Now "men" is a lame name.

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What about "women". I'd rather be called a gal. :)

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What about "women". I'd rather be called a gal. :)

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Sir or Master suits me fine.

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Sir or Master suits me fine.

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LOL! Dream on! ;)

Caterpillar. I always thought that was strange.

Reminds me of a pussywillow story. It's German tradition to get pussywillow branches at Easter and make a sort of Easter tree with them. You then hang hollowed out decorated eggs on the tree.

One year, after begging my parents to get a cat, my mother told me that I could make my own. All I had to do was squish a pussywillow between two rocks, leave it out in the sun for a few days, and it would turn into a kitten.

I swear that I must have gone through an entire tree of pussywillows before I decided that I was either doing it wrong or mom was lying through her teeth! ;)

The slimehead was renamed the orange roughy so people would eat it. Same for the Patagonian toothfish, now the Chilean sea bass.

It's not the name of an animal, but I hate names that are spelled differently than they are pronounced... example, a company name "Geeseling" I would pronounce that like Geese-ling. But it's pronounced like Gazelle-ick

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The slimehead was renamed the orange roughy so people would eat it. Same for the Patagonian toothfish, now the Chilean sea bass.

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Which could you charge more for at the restaurant, a Southern Freshwater Langustino or a Cajun Crawdaddy?

Craw-daddy's out here are called crayfish.

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Craw-daddy's out here are called crayfish.

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Do you eat the heads? That's the difference.

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Do you eat the heads? That's the difference.

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I would never eat the head of any animal. :eek:

No, that wasn't dirty! :rolleyes:

Ewwwww, no I wouldn't eat the heads, but I wouldn't eat the head of a lobster either. Yuckkk. Lots do, but **shivers** that's not for me!

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I would never eat the head of any animal. :eek:

No, that wasn't dirty! :rolleyes:

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Best part of a crawdaddy. Suck it out and dip the tail in cocktail sauce. Mmm-mmh!