Wednesday, October 20, 2004

There's a fresh baby white rhino down at Busch Gardens, and you can help name her if you'd like. But what do you call a young rhinoceros just generically? As the rhinocerati well know, they are called calves, and here is a website where you can find out what other animal youth (as well as males, females, and groups of those animals) are called. My favorite term that I wasn't previously familiar with is puggle, a baby platypus (and it turns out that's also what you get when you mate a beagle and a pug).

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's obvious that you are a friend of the squirrels, but are you a friend of the platypus?

11:20 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

we've never met, but I do have a favorable impression of the platypus and assume that we would get along swimmingly

11:37 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Leave it to you to contact the rhinocerati on this one. - ab

12:27 PM  

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