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Author:  chris_d [ Thu Jun 09, 2016 9:28 am ]
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...Critters.

I was just locked into a bit of a wiki rabbithole that lead to quite a bit of reading about electric eels(which are fucking amazing) and stumbled across this one:

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Which is a Black Ghost Knifefish. Which strikes me as a pretty sweet name for a fishthing.

In fact, technically, an electric eel is actually not a true eel but rather another type of Knifefish, and it strikes me that with such an alternative it is kind of silly to call the things otherwise...? :idk:

Anyhoo, in this thread, please poast wonderfully named critters thusly. :isay:
Author:  Snaxocaster [ Fri Jun 10, 2016 11:11 am ]
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Off the top of my head:

Goliath bird-eating spider:
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Death's head hawkmoth:
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Vampire squid:
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Nubian wild ass:
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Least weasel:
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Author:  Snaxocaster [ Fri Jun 10, 2016 11:25 am ]
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Allen's swamp monkey:
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Heck's macaque :D :
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Hernández-Camacho's night monkey:
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Nancy Ma's night monkey:
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Guatemalan black howler:
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Prince Bernhard's titi:
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Author:  Snaxocaster [ Fri Jun 10, 2016 11:38 am ]
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Mindoro warty pig:
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Grewcock's sportive lemur:
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Grizzled tree kangaroo:
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Since I couldn't find an image of Dorothy's slender opossum, I have substituted the Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum, which has an equally silly name:
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Zimmer's screeching frog:
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Author:  chris_d [ Fri Jun 10, 2016 11:40 am ]
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YES! All fine contributions. :isay:

I musty say, there is something a bit more more extra plus with the whole black ghost knife fish thing, like they let middle school boys name it or something. I like that angle.

I also like the ones where the name doesn't quite all the way match too well, ala Strange Tailed Tyrant:

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Which is i guess maybe half right, but it is hard to see the second half applying to what just looks a bit like a sad off-color sparrow. :red:
Author:  chris_d [ Fri Jun 10, 2016 11:44 am ]
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I also just generally approve of the pure consistency of Australian goofy names for things, ala Tasseled Wobbegong:

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Author:  chris_d [ Fri Jun 10, 2016 11:47 am ]
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As an aside, i also enjoy how almost any image search for anything will generally result in something of this nature popping up in the list for some reason or other:

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Author:  chris_d [ Fri Jun 10, 2016 12:02 pm ]
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Least Weasel is understatedly fantastic.

I don't know about letting a person just name a thing after themselves though. I feel like they could/should do that a bit more tactfully.

Unless of course, the critters are named for other people, that the namers don't like, in which case, it is 100% correct to do this way.

Or, of course, if the dude/dudette in question is fucking named Grewcock or something.
Author:  torgeot [ Fri Jun 10, 2016 4:12 pm ]
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fantabulous names.
Author:  El-Todgo [ Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:24 am ]
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I enjoy this thread.
Author:  Unstrung [ Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:59 pm ]
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Porkfish.
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