Just the Dutch naming animals

[Redelll]

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For real?? Dutch is not kidding right? lmao

[OnesimusUnbound]

Well, checking German . . .

http://www.babbel.com/assets/static/magazine-img/FlowchartDEUAnimals3.jpg

[sofiarayol]

Haha I found this hilarious!

[Redelll]

so do I lol

[MaritvanDelden]

Stekelvarken translates to "spike pig". Makes a lot more sense!

[summ1t]

English can be pretty funny too.

Vogelbekdier (Bird beak animal) ---> Platapus (A what a pus)
Inktvis (ink fish) ---> Octopus (Yet another pus)
Vliegende hond (Flying dog) ---> Flying fox (in Australia anyway)
Luiaard (Lazy being) ---> Sloth (Australischlijk)

I just love the Spookdiertje

[Petja.]

That's one of the reasons I find Dutch highly amusing! :D

[WordFitlySpoken]

How come we didn't have these animals in the animals skill?!

This was hilarious, thank you!

[deHenk]

The 'vliegende hond' is actually called 'vleermuis'. Which means 'wing mouse' XD

[JesseKuipe1]

Vliegende hond (or vleerhond) is correct. They are a taxonomical family of big bats. In English they are called megabats or fruit bats (and some of them are also called flying fox). See https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vleerhonden (in Dutch) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabat (in English).

[deHenk]

Oh, I see thank you. So vleerhonden is a subfamily of vleermuizen.

[JesseKuipe1]

Yup.

[Susande]

The list doesn't even contain the following. :)

walvis (whale - shore fish):

stinkdier (skunk - stink animal):

wasbeer (raccoon - wash bear):

zeehond (seal - sea dog):

And of course we also use zeepaardje (see horse) and zeekoe (see cow).