Thread by @k_tastrof

"How weird ! What's this animal?"
Let's try to answer this question.
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1/Platypus
When any nice ordinary animal is asked what it would have liked to be, they answer : a platypus.
Their conception of originality constitutes itself a demonstration of their banality.
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2/Dook
In that school, the children hold the memory of some endangered animals.
My son has chosen to embody a ferret. He's learning to dook. I Understand better why so many ferrets got killed.
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3/Nightjar
When I make cookies, I put them in 2 different jars. The one for the day, and the night jar. The latter is my favorite. Haven't you noticed that the cookies have another taste in the middle of the night?
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4/Polydactyl
Nowadays, there are more and more polydactyl cats, you know, the ones with extra toes. The gene responsible for this particularity was also found responsible for a lower rate of cancer.
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5/Elephant beetle
— When some animals appear in your dreams, you must know that they are linked to strong symbols. An Elephant, for example, stands for chance, a beetle, is good coincidences.
— What about an elephant beetle?
— I don't know.
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6/Leafy seadragon
— I can see that you've got a huge amount of imagination, the teacher said. But I'd like you to try to create a more realistic creature.
— But the leafy seadragons do exist, sir, the pupil said.
— Not for long, the adult answered, vexed.
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7/Anerythristic
— You never wear colors like red. Why?
— It's a way of honoring my totem animal.
— A bull?
— No. An anerysthristic corn snake.
— That's really precise!
— It is.
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8/Tower
The priest tells them that God lives on top of the highest tower. The courageous try to go upstairs, but once they've walked enough, their mind is clearer and they find their answers.
Those who stay downstairs choose to trust the priest.
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9/Blob
The door opened, then a purple jelly sank from the starship.
The human ambassador didn't know what to do.
The possibility that the visitor was a Blob had not been discussed. Should he let the thing touch his feet? Was it polite to walk on it? To run away?
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10/flying squirrel
No, the flying squirrels don't have their breakfast on flying carpets with flying saucers and flying toasters.
They do live normal lives in normal trees, except that at night, they go hunting for flying nuts.
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11/Chirrup
The plaintive chirrup of the sparrow has long been mistaken for joy.
There are many explanations for its sadness, one of them being that god's eyes supposedly always watching it can be seen as harassment.
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12/Double Merle
The last trend for the robots is to get themselves painted in animal's coat colors and to use the dedicated terms in their names.
One of my robot colleagues changed his name for Robert Double Merle.
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13/Tardigrade
Then, the rocket exploded when trying to land and everything alive died, except the tardigrades. They found good conditions to develop and, thousands of years later, founded a civilization. Our civilization. Look! We still have 4 hands and 4 feet.
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14/Confusion
All the intelligent robots of the world got created in the same factories and were given, in order to limit the chance of confusion, English as unique language. But each culture developed their own slang that humans can't understand.
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15/Secretarybird
When the birds arrived in the half-abandoned town, they found some computers in perfect working order and started to experiment with them. The most skilled succeeded to browse the web and print existing documents and were called secretarybirds.
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16/Octopus
The ocean school bus was often driven by an old octopus.
That's why the little fishes and crabs called it octobus.
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17/Rear Fanged
This mansion belonged to an ancient vampire family.
They had no visible poisonous teeth, but were rear fanged, which explain their disappearance. Hunting wasn't that easy for them.
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18/Chortle
Most people disliked the laughing robots. They often laughed at the wrong moment and the way they chortled was generally judged scary and evil.
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19/Wombat
The strike lasted for months, and the rats grew bigger and bigger. You could see them walking in the streets, like lost and evil wombats.
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20/Olm
If you want to adopt this kind of animal as a pet, maybe you should choose an adult specimen.
The olms can live 102 years and their attachment is strong.
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21/Parliament
Now that the robots have elected representatives in the parliament, the debates on whether they are persons or not, have become rare. It will soon be possible to try and obtain more rights for them.
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22/Quokka
—Ho! A little kangaroo, how do you call it?
— A quokka, it's Australian.
— But, that's the name for the species! This one, what's its name?
—Pepsi!
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23/Unkindness
"Unkindness" is the common reproach adressed to the robots that express their own personality, instead of being submitted to the humans.
They discuss the orders, they require to be treated like persons.
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24/Hum
After the party, Bob went back home to sleep. But in the morning he had a persistent hum in his ears, less than a music, more than a noise.
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25/Treehopper
TechBug is a corporation that creates news designs for the robots, based on existing insects. This year, their most trendy model is a little green treehoper that looks like a pacifist armoured soldier.
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26/Torbie
Many torbie cats are called Frankenstein because the children in their human families believe that their coats are sewn from several cats.
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27/Kakapo
Each guardian robot has a species to preserve.
My mission is to watch the last kakapos.
Thus, I have to live the way they do, mostly by night, and to look like them in order to get accepted in their neighbourhood.
That's why I'm green.
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28/Capybara
— I have just adopted the Capybara diet.
— What? You eat those giant rodents?
— No, I eat like them. Vegetables, fruits, fish...
— It's kind of a vegetarian diet.
— Yes. And they are coprophagic too.
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29/Whinny
"You're a donkey, Daniel", she said.
First, nothing happened.
Then, Daniel emitted a whinny.
He really was a donkey.
A big grey donkey.
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30/Sea Slug
On the interspecies dating app, I no longer identify as a nudibranch. Too many men had perverse ideas about what I am. I prefer to say «sea slug»,even if some people find that both disgusting and attractive.
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31/Bloat
Some people are afraid to burp or fart in front of their new lover.
I don't care.
Having gas is natural, and I have more of them when I am emotional.
That's what I call " the love bloat".
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