ITT: Animals with unfortunate and/or hilarious names.Cockchafer.
Horny toad.
Titmouse, actually a bird.
ASS
Woodcock
You people do realize that these names wouldn't be unfortunate and/or hilarious if not for the vulgar modern uses of certain words, right?
>>241032Do we realize these names are funny because they're vulgar?Gee no, doc, I thought they were intricate gematric code for the true name of God.
>>241032Lol so? Are you a butthurt fag who's last name is like Cocksmith and you try to play it off like it's not funny or something?
>>241040At my office I once dug up a file for someone named GlasscockThat was amusing
In before someone post cocks, pussy, tits and boobies.I also think it's quite lame to find the animal name funny. They weren't named like that because of the genital organs, it's the other way round.
dikdiksounds like dick dick
I actually played one of those electronic 20 questions games and tried to get it to guess dick and it guessed dikdik. I didn't know what the hell it was taking about until a week later when I was watching animal planet.
>>241044It's not even that in the case of "breast names". "Tit" had for long been used to describe small animals, while "tit" as breast is a changed spelling of "teat". Booby as in the bird meant a stupid person, while "boobs" as breasts comes from a different word "bubby".
>>241044Jesus christ, remove the stick from ass would you?
Anophtalmus hitleri -> Hitler Beetle
>>241045oh, rightthanks for explaining that
blue footed booby, cock of the rock, both birds :P
>>241575It kills Jews?
I've been doing research on American black ducks, and the scientific name makes me laugh every time: Anas rubripes. Just seems so wrong.
>>240927Lol horny toads are so cute though. They used to be all over my family's land in Colorado, and I'd always catch them and carry them around with me. I named it Horny and I made up a song for it too which basically went like "Hooorny the horny toad! Hoooorney Hoooorney!". Looking back on my childhood is so embarassing sometimes.
>>242262you're a fucking faggot you remind me of those 'random' emo/goth whatever faggots OMG IM SO RANDOM LOL HORNYYY THE TOOOADDDD LOL OMG
SLIPPERY DICKThread Over
Lobstercock: if it doesn't exist yet, it should.
>>242273<_<Seconded completely.
>>242273Reminds me of when I was in summer campthere was this kid who would say the most randomest things for no apparent reason and everybody thought he was crazy but NO HE WAS A RANDOM EMOGOTHWHATEVERFAGGOT!
>>242273<---- /b/ is that way
>>241575awesome beetle is awesome
>>243136Nazis would pay a fortune for a dried specimen of these.
>>243169They probably discovered it.Do Ba humbugi and Agathidium cheneyi count?Also, http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/agathidium_bushi_agathidium_cheneyi_and_agathidium_rumsfeldi/
The latin name of an American Robin is Turdus migratorius, which I believe means migrating turd.
>>242273penguin of doom
macrocephalus / Sperm whale
>>244219I saw that the other day in my birding book and I laughed so unbelievably hard.
Slippery Dick - it's a fish, google it faggots
>>244140Yeah, a german etomologist named it during Nazi times, because of his admiration for Hitler.