I used to often go through lists, google searches, and so on looking for funny/weird animal names. I have made quite a few lists already, and I thought I would make a post here to see if some of you know some good ones. plants and fungi also welcome :) Here are some of my favorites that I can fin…

My favorite is what is possibly the longest English common name, the Association Européenne pour l’Etude et la Conservation des Lémuriens’ Sportive Lemur .

Well for the most part is isn’t English (arguably only one word in that name is English), but it is an English name.

Understood – I just found it funny. I guess “Sportive” and “Lemur” are both English.

Lemur is actually Latin for ghost.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/8271-Dicrurus-bracteatus Spangled Drongo.

My bad, but I can’t fix it because it seems you can’t edit comments that old.

Sort of. Lemurum is a Latin name for a malevolent spirit of a dead person. Lemur is English for lemur. Edited to add: Regardless, as a citizen of an English/French bilingual country I have to say that Association Européenne pour l’Etude et la Conservation des Lémuriens’ Sportive Lemur is a pretty …

The word Lemur comes from Lemurum.

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