Funny Animal Names

[Intrusion]

Fun fact the giraffes scientific name literally means “long necked camel leopard”

[wolfmoonstudios]

Wolverines are top 3 favorite mammals for me. They're absolutely fascinating.

[terkturk]

The gorilla sounds like it was named while someone was running for their life. Gorilla gorilla gorilla!!

[Morrison-saber-tooth]

Cant belive, you didnt mention recently discovered chinese spider named "hotwheels sisyphus"

[NexoWC]

Bro I once had a goldfish that my mother named "The fish of fishes that swim in gold." Lol

[JohnCena]

I need to resist the urge to name the beetle that was named after the infamous austrian painter.🗿

[TheUnExtinctFiles]

I love how the meaning is literally Gorilla gorilla gorilla. I wish every animals name would just be there's repeated 3 times lol.

[suriV]

The horngus of a dongfish is attached by a scungle to a kind of dillsack (the nutte sac)

[kingrahzar]

Funny thing about gorillas their name derives from an ancient word that means: hairy woman. Big whoops on the fella who came up with that 😅

[godzillapark]

The horrible bear bear sounds like a Mario level

[foxboy]

I love how straightforward the boa is.

[indosomni]

Gulo Gulo sound like a new One Piece devil fruit

[TrojanGamer]

Gotta love beetles named after the Pokemon Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres

[thekomicdrawingguy]

Grizzlies got that devil fruit ahh name

[sabbisaraonavy]

"Buups Buups" call it like you should

[carlodechosa]

Great White Shark

Carcharodon carcharias

"shark-toothed shark"

[DreadEnder]

Turdus maximus, arses insularis, colon asperstum, bugeranus, texananus areolatus, ba humbugi and of course penus rigida

[unromanoarecareanaveragero]

You forgot about the ferret, whose name is “Mustela putorius” which means “stinky mouse-eater”.

[Bitternbirdwatching]

There’s a type of birds who’s scientific name is caprimulgus longipennis

[yourfriendlystalker]

I always wondered if there were invasive dinosaurs