January 17th, 2010 at 9:34AM
ragbag: in hot pursuit of the most deceptively named animal thanks to a lot of stellar comments, i have been catatonically obsessing over deceptively named animals all weekend long. i built this chart to help determine which animal is the biggest impostor on planet earth. it turns out* it’s the sea cucumber! silly sea cucumber, you’re not even in the same kingdom as the key ingredient of my tzatziki sauce. __ *unless of course, the rules of our pursuit allow us to add up the non-antness, non-lionness qualities of the antlion. special thanks to the remarkable f+l blog for helping me rethink the size of my footnotes. Sea cucumber it is. Now you know!

ragbag:

in hot pursuit of the most deceptively named animal

thanks to a lot of stellar comments, i have been catatonically obsessing over deceptively named animals all weekend long. i built this chart to help determine which animal is the biggest impostor on planet earth. it turns out* it’s the sea cucumber! silly sea cucumber, you’re not even in the same kingdom as the key ingredient of my tzatziki sauce.

__

*unless of course, the rules of our pursuit allow us to add up the non-antness, non-lionness qualities of the antlion.

special thanks to the remarkable f+l blog for helping me rethink the size of my footnotes.

Sea cucumber it is. Now you know!

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    Domain: “Cucumber”.
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    these. A polecat is a weasel, a Portugese man o’ war is a siphonophore resembling a jellyfish, and a titmouse is a...
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    is. Now you know!
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    Almost an interesting research idea of computational linguistics. ;)
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    GEODUCK!!!! HAHAH
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    the first common taxonomic rank between deceptively named animals and their counterparts
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    We were very confused when we saw said “red panda” at the philly zoo.
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