# Animals are hard **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2013, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465 "2013-12-04T11:12:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/41 "2013-12-05T03:40:47Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > The OP’s subject line got me thinking about the [giant goat erection.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=709365) They need to be sequential threads. ---
**Author:** ![There\_Goes\_a\_Tenner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@There\_Goes\_a\_Tenner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/There_Goes_a_Tenner)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/42 "2013-12-05T03:59:05Z")
I think I have some nail polish colors in ‘Regret’ and ‘Nucleus’, Robdog. Have you considered going into cosmetics industry as a make-up namer? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/43 "2013-12-05T07:31:44Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Your ex- is actually quite correct in her irrational phobia. Don’t think they’re harmless just because they look ridiculous : swans (and ganders) can be very territorial and aggressive as hell without any provocation or warning. And they will fuck you _up_. They’ll bite, peck (which, because of the prehensile neck, feels like being hit by a Mexican luchador wielding a claw hammer), buffet, chase you around for ever. No joke. The narrator in _The Art of Coarse Sailing_ describes his terror of swans as stemming from being told as a boy that they are capable of breaking a man’s arm with a blow of their wing - since when he has imagined that they go around doing nothing else all day. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/44 "2013-12-05T07:47:13Z")
> [@gracer](#): > > Oh please let there be someone who actually thinks weasels go pop! > > The song might be where he got it from, but it leaves me wondering _what colour_ lavender green _is_! 😕 > [@RobDog](#): > > Further to your side note. I love it when a web site shows you a picture of, say, a shirt in blue, and inform you that it’s also available in five other mysterious colours such as “crayon”, “regret”, “nucleus”, “egg” and “Croatia”. Due to the fact Rob Dog mentions, I’m perfectly content to accept Lavender Green as a color. Hell, make it a random shade of burgundy for extra WTF. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/45 "2013-12-05T08:21:50Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Due to the fact Rob Dog mentions, I’m perfectly content to accept Lavender Green as a color. Hell, make it a random shade of burgundy for extra WTF. I’m reminded by this of a place in Essex (England) called Ugley Green\*. I’d love to attend a meeting of the Ugley Green Women’s Institute at the Ugley Green Village Halll. - I’m sure the inhabitants pronounce it Oo-glay. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/46 "2013-12-05T08:41:02Z")
I think (just think) there are some parts of the world where all cats of genus panthera are called commonly tigers. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/47 "2013-12-05T09:08:43Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > I’m reminded by this of a place in Essex (England) called Ugley Green\*. I’d love to attend a meeting of the Ugley Green Women’s Institute at the Ugley Green Village Halll. > > - I’m sure the inhabitants pronounce it Oo-glay. Actually I heard they’re quite proud of their name and even hold a “Miss Ugley” contest. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/48 "2013-12-05T09:19:53Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Actually I heard they’re quite proud of their name and even hold a “Miss Ugley” contest. Excellent! No doubt it rivals the competition held 14 miles away in Nasty, Hertfordshire. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/49 "2013-12-05T09:40:46Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > Leaving aside the bizarreness of confusing those two animals with each other what was the baby bear, sorry I mean arctic fox doing in the same cage as the bears anyway? Isn’t one the prey of the other? I don’t think so. Arctic foxes are good at not getting eaten while stealing food from bigger predators such as bears and wolverines. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/50 "2013-12-06T01:33:17Z")
All I have on _my_ pajama pants is a great big elephant’s trunk. But that’s because I sleep in the buff. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/51 "2013-12-06T01:58:11Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Yes. All around the mulberry bush. Or possibly a cobbler’s bench. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/52 "2013-12-06T02:03:11Z")
Overheard at the San Diego Zoo reptile house: Kid (pointing at Komodo dragon) Hey Mom! Look! A giant lizard! Mom: That’s a monitoring lizard, honey. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/53 "2013-12-06T03:38:49Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Overheard at the San Diego Zoo reptile house: > > Kid (pointing at Komodo dragon) Hey Mom! Look! A giant lizard! > Mom: That’s a monitoring lizard, honey. Works for the NSA no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/54 "2013-12-06T09:11:33Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > I don’t think so. Arctic foxes are good at not getting eaten while stealing food from bigger predators such as bears and wolverines. They definitely end up as lunch in the wild if a polar bear is feeling hungry though. I thought that would be a rather stressful existence, being in the same cage as a predator of yours! But I assume the zoo knows what its doing. I like arctic-foxes, they’re one of my favourite beasties. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/55 "2013-12-06T10:16:45Z")
I guess polar bears are a bit more voracious than brown bears, especially if said bears are properly fed. ETA And I mean European brown bears, not the grizzly or Kodiak variants. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/56 "2013-12-06T10:36:44Z")
Yes, I see what you mean. I suppose I just kind of assumed they’d have their own seperate enclosure. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/57 "2013-12-06T18:37:09Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > I like arctic-foxes, they’re one of my favourite beasties. I like equatorial foxes, they tend to wear less clothes. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465/58 "2013-12-06T20:25:50Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > All I have on _my_ pajama pants is a great big elephant’s trunk. But that’s because I sleep in the buff. “How the elephant got on my pajamas, I’ll never know.” 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-are-hard/675465.md?page=2)