Who are you calling a big-headed turtle?
The animal kingdom can be a rough place to be, and we human beings sometimes make it even tougher. And I'm not talking ecologically but linguistically.
You see, for every Splendid Climbing Mouse, Charming Thicket Rat or Pleasing Fungus Beetle out there, there are a bunch of despondent creatures labouring under some rather less chirpy names. In fact, I'm amazed they haven't got inferiority complexes. What kind of names, you may be asking? Well, as is my wont, I thought I'd leave it up to YOU to guess.
Poll Nature's Most Negative Animal Adjectives: A Quiz
As usual, I will return in a day or so with the correct answers...
You see, for every Splendid Climbing Mouse, Charming Thicket Rat or Pleasing Fungus Beetle out there, there are a bunch of despondent creatures labouring under some rather less chirpy names. In fact, I'm amazed they haven't got inferiority complexes. What kind of names, you may be asking? Well, as is my wont, I thought I'd leave it up to YOU to guess.
Poll Nature's Most Negative Animal Adjectives: A Quiz
As usual, I will return in a day or so with the correct answers...