# Cute and silly animal nicknames **URL:** \ **Category:** Nature Talk\ **Tags:** silliness\ **Created:** [June 20, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956 "2022-06-20T21:48:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ruminantia\_errata](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ruminantia_errata/32/73222_2.png) [@Ruminantia\_errata](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Ruminantia_errata)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/1 "2022-06-20T21:48:13Z")
Ahh, cute words: One of the internet’s favorite things. We all know “doggo” and “birb”, but what about words for other animal groups? Like maybe feesh/fibsh for fish? What are some cute words and names for animals y’all have seen/come up with? ---
**Author:** ![vreinkymov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/vreinkymov/32/58876_2.png) [@vreinkymov](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/vreinkymov)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/2 "2022-06-20T21:55:22Z")
@vihaking277 has a few good ones here: [Nature- inspired memes](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/nature-inspired-memes/27300/32) ---
**Author:** ![jhousephotos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jhousephotos/32/5442_2.png) [@jhousephotos](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jhousephotos)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/3 "2022-06-21T01:50:40Z")
Stingrays aka sea pancakes. ---
**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/4 "2022-06-21T03:33:38Z")
Trash panda (raccoon) Sometimes, what I learned as simply a common name could be taken as a cute nickname, such as inchworm (Geometrid larva) or woolly bear (Arctiine larva). Then there are the names that were current among kids when I was a kid myself, which I only much later found out were not actual common names: sea ants (Idotea balthica). ---
**Author:** ![agileantechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac8455/32.png) [@agileantechinus](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/agileantechinus)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/5 "2022-06-21T09:00:09Z")
In Australia the pallid cuckoo is also known as the brainfever bird because of its annoying, repetitive call. Then there is the pobblebonk frog. ---
**Author:** ![whaichi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/whaichi/32/277_2.png) [@whaichi](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/whaichi)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/6 "2022-06-21T13:31:40Z")
I have occasionally seen jumping spiders referred to as ‘octokittens’ and then there’s ‘danger noodles’ and ‘sneks’ for snakes. I’ve seen at least one person on the internet calling slugs ‘slime bunnies’ but I’m not sure how widespread that one is. Also, for those unfamiliar, [Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers](https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/23/524514526/dogs-are-doggos-an-internet-language-built-around-love-for-the-puppers). ---
**Author:** ![medeajade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/medeajade/32/27507_2.png) [@medeajade](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/medeajade)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/7 "2022-06-21T13:36:39Z")
Canada geese are cobra chickens! ---
**Author:** ![jnstuart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jnstuart/32/1623_2.png) [@jnstuart](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jnstuart)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/8 "2022-06-21T13:44:39Z")
I don’t know who coined it but Rufous Hummingbird is known by some of my friends as Attila the Hum because of its aggressiveness against other hummingbirds at feeders when it migrates through my area. ---
**Author:** ![medeajade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/medeajade/32/27507_2.png) [@medeajade](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/medeajade)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/9 "2022-06-21T16:44:55Z")
Attila the Hum!!! That’s amazing! ---
**Author:** ![ewan-chalmers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ewan-chalmers/32/27310_2.png) [@ewan-chalmers](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ewan-chalmers)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/10 "2022-06-21T17:51:18Z")
Not really meme-ish, but… In Ireland the Wren (troglodytes troglodytes) is “the king of all birds”, a title it earned through trickery. And “the origin of the word wren in Irish is dreoilín, which means a trickster.” ---
**Author:** ![Star3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/star3/32/73028_2.png) [@Star3](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Star3)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/11 "2022-06-21T21:00:14Z")
> [@whaichi](#): > > then there’s ‘danger noodles’ and ‘sneks’ for snakes. Another memetic name I’ve seen for them is “nope rope” ---
**Author:** ![jnstuart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jnstuart/32/1623_2.png) [@jnstuart](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jnstuart)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/12 "2022-06-21T22:49:27Z")
The Eastern Musk Turtle, which produces a strong musky smell, has a couple of alternative names (which appear on its iNat page) that have fallen out of favor but I still like to use when the opportunity arises: Stinkpot and Stinking Jim. The latter I probably should find personally offensive, but I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/13 "2022-06-22T01:21:12Z")
> [@whaichi](#): > > I have occasionally seen jumping spiders referred to as ‘octokittens’ Hmmm… did that happen before or after Octocat? ---
**Author:** ![whaichi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/whaichi/32/277_2.png) [@whaichi](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/whaichi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cute-and-silly-animal-nicknames/32956/14 "2022-06-22T03:18:23Z")
> [@jasonhernandez74](#): > > Hmmm… did that happen before or after Octocat? Which one – the [2008 animation](https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2019/films/octocat-story) or the [2014 GitHub logo](https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/04/technology/culture/octocat-github-microsoft/)? Don’t have a lot of time at the moment to go digging around for the first usage of octokitten, but there are reddit posts using the term from five years ago (2017?) [Link 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/awwnverts/comments/4zrrg8/octokittens_are_crafty/), [Link 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/awwnverts/comments/65gikj/my_new_octokitten_friend/) ---
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