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Name the bug # 10

By Christopher Taylor at 1/06/2010 12:45:00 pm
I wonder if any of you are familiar with this animal:



Attribution to follow.

Update: Identification here. Image from Buckland (1875).

6 comments:

  1. Mike Keesey6 January 2010 at 13:43

    Flightless Rabbit-Bird of some sort?

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  2. Mike Keesey6 January 2010 at 13:44

    Wait, or is it all rabbit, with parts selectively removed to make it look grossly avian?

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  3. Hugh Griffith6 January 2010 at 14:16

    Ookpik!

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  4. Denis Wilson6 January 2010 at 14:35

    It is from the Monty Pyuthon "Dead Parrot" sketch - just at a more "mature" stage.
    Denis

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  5. Mike Keesey6 January 2010 at 14:44

    I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Oryctolagus, although I don't know leporids that well. (Doesn't look like Lepus, though.)

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  6. Pat6 January 2010 at 15:25

    Pretending to be a kakapo?

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