# Funny, long, or just plain weird animal names

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/funny-long-or-just-plain-weird-animal-names/3220>\
**Category:** Nature Talk\
**Tags:** mostly-humor, fun, common-names\
**Created:** [May 13, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/funny-long-or-just-plain-weird-animal-names/3220 "2019-05-13T17:51:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/funny-long-or-just-plain-weird-animal-names/3220/222 "2020-11-08T03:40:15Z")

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> [@haemocyanin11](#):
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> [Air Potato](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/84537-Dioscorea-bulbifera), despite sounding very strange, is a very accurate name. At least it was not called Floating Spuds.

But it isn’t an animal.

Another animal name I find strange is an African animal called a [zorilla](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/41822-Ictonyx-striatus). In Spanish, that word means “little fox,” yet the zorilla looks nothing at all like a fox, but looks almost exactly like a skunk.

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