Q. How do you identify a dogwood tree?
A. By its bark
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A multilingual classic from every Canadian’s childhood.
kinda off topic, but i wonder if nonhuman animals can make puns? and if so, what would such a pun look like?
(i know animals can use humor. for example, i think there was a case noted where a chimp or gorilla tied its human’s shoes together at the laces and asked the human to chase it.)
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I think I said this in another thread already, but it fits better here:
A group of people all contributed to a pot of money toward the care of a cat. They called it the kitty kitty.
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I have been having mellow and “friendly” encounters with lizards so I want to celebrate them with this pun joke:
Lizards are particularly responsive to the sedative effects of chamomileon tea.
Why did I select this one? Look at my latest lizard observation:
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I’d be lion if I said I had any.
-My Dad, 50 seconds ago
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What did the lion say when the moray left the dinner table?
Eel be back.
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Your dad and I seem to think alike 
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Apparently it was moray, not eel.
[Singing romantically]: If you’re dancing slow and an eel bites your toe – that’s a moray!
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With acknowledgement to the old joke about two peanuts:
Two Heteroptera were passing a pub at closing time when a brawl started. One ran away, the other was …
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When looking for dragonflies to photo at a site and finding none, it’s recorded in my field notes as “odo-nada”.
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This time I picked an animal that can be very annoying and it has a reputation of being “disgusting”:
What do you call a bunch of flies in a vacuum chamber?
Walks.
For those who didn’t get it , it’s okay , there’s no pressure at all !
Here is a surprising fly that was obsessed with a yellow flower. Do some flies feed on pollen/nectar and are not so disgusting after all?
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I understand the nada but where does the odo come from?
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The scientific name for dragonflies and damselflies is Odonata, so nada odonata = odonada.
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Now I get it! Thanks!
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Almost all Diptera feed on nectar at least sometimes in their life, because most of flies are “omnivorous”, and surely there’re groups that feed primarly on it, e.g. hoverflies.
de nata 
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de nata 
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Congratulations! You have made me giggle! 
(Sorry for the “post-mess”…Ma che casino!
I was looking for a Homo Sapiens pun and found this instead:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470490600400129
Good night!
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