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Funny Animals
31. Cuckoo Bird
I'm not crazy, but it's really a bird. Known for laying its eggs in another bird's nest and abandoning it to go party while the tricked foster parents raise the voracious monster chick, which isn't very funny.
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32. Fruit Bats
The largest and only vegetarian bat, it is also known as a flying fox and loves a variety of tiny, sweet bananas called "fruit bat bananas" in the Pacific Islands.
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33. Jesus Lizard
A lizard so-named because it does indeed walk (or run) on water, just like Jesus did.
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35. Nutria
Sounds like a health product, but it's really a bad-tempered, invasive swamp rodent related to a musk rat.
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37. Kookaburra
An Australian bird also called the "laughing jackass," yes indeed. So funny it has a nursery song about it, "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree...."
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38. Pygmy Marmoset
A kind of finger monkey (huh?). Gotta be related to kinkajous and tarsiers. They are the smallest monkey on the planet.
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39. Sucker-footed Bat
A real animal, and surely a good name for an annoying ex-boyfriend.
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40. Finger Monkey
A.K.A. pygmy marmoset, but could be mistaken for a vulgar hand gesture.