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what are some animals with funny sounding/weird weird names?

like zebu Kākāriki does not sound weird or funny because i am from new zealand

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1. Cockapoo (dog mixed breed) Dodo (extinct bird)
2. Platypus dik-dik (a tiny deer-like animal. They live in Africa, but I saw them in the Madagascar movie) Humuhumukununukuapua (also called a Trigger Fish) It means "fish with pig's nose" in Hawaiian. Some people think this is the official state fish of Hawaii, but Hawaii does not have an official state fish!
3. Kākāriki
4. I rather enjoy the sounds of "kinkajou," "xenops," "quokka," "uakari," and I've always liked "aye-ayes," too. Oh, and I love "bushbaby." I always say one of my cats looks like a bushbaby. Some animals that we hear about all the time in the US but that still sound odd or interesting to me are "nuthatch," "meerkat," "gnu," and "zebra" (especially when speaking with someone from the UK who pronounces it with a short e sound).
5. great bustard
6. aye-aye okapi thylacine uromastyx cookie-cutter shark blob fish bonobo slippery dick (a fish in the Atlantic) ....just a few that came to mind.
7. Most of these ones have funny names and are funny looking
8. vinegaroon upside down catfish kakapo
9. humu humu nuku nuku apua'a (and other hawai'in fish names) wombat dik-dik gnu emu barramundi piwakawaka tui aye-aye bonobo orangatan (previously spelled Ourang-Outang) Macaque Loris
10. Potto Octopus Dik-dik