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In the book which accompanied the tv series "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World" Clarke mentions the time his mother said that there were some four-horned sheep at a farm not far from their house. The young Arthur guffawed at this but later discovered that it was true.

Have you ever seen any animals which you wouldn't have believed existed?

― MarkH, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

my personal example = BLUE LIZARDS. If somebody had suggested that blue lizards existed I would have laughed, until this time last years when I saw loads of them basking on the rocks around Petra in Jordan. They were really bright blue as well.

― MarkH, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

there was a zoo, about 400 kilometres west of where I grew up, in a town called Roma, and its main attraction was a five legged cow. I saw that cow when I was three years old, and by god I felt special.

― Queen G, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Zebra's. Stripey horses that are too lazy to be ridden. I just thought they put it in my Animal ABC book to cover the letter Z.

(Of course I later found out the Xefro - a cute bear like creature with very lomng arms like Mr Tickle did not exist).

― Pete, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks to Pete for taking time out from his fruit & veg stall to bring us his poorly-apostrophed words of wisdom.

― Emma, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Black squirrels in Canada. As a lad growing up in Dorset I thought squirrels were only grey and , only on Brownsea Island!, red. Everything I thought I knew about squirrels turns out to be wrong.

― Jonnie, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have heard they have them in Italy too Jonnie - when I went to Tuscany with my parents aged about 15 the brochure said 'you may catch a glimpse of the rare black squirrel', obviously as keen nature fans we spent the entire holiday looking out for it rather than scoffing all the lovely icecream & pizza & wine.

― Emma, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Apple's - 6d a lb's.

― Pete, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Then again, those black squirrels could just turn out to be escaped rats from the Underground whose tails have flourished in the sunshine.

― Jonnie, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Everything I thought I knew about squirrels turns out to be wrong.

You can say that again. Earlier this week I noticed a squirrel on a railing outside my bathroom window. It was just sitting there facing away from the window, making these almost cat-like cries. There didn't appear to be any other squirrels, or even any other animals, in the area. It did this several times, and I got the impression it had been doing it for a while. Then it just kind of slowly walked away, very un-squirrel-like. What is going on here?

― DeRayMi, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

can you do that special twisty thing with your brown paper bags, Pete?

― MarkH, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Its all in the wrist. Fold the corner of the bag and then - whoop - right over.

― Pete, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Close Encounter of the Second Kind, DeRayMi

― mark s, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Does the 'P' stand for Beale Pete?

― Jonnie, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or even 'B' come to think of it. Der.

― Jonnie, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

It stands for BarrowBoy.

― Emma, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The most fucked up creature ever is the sea sponge. I mean, man, its weird. Its jost a big blob that sucks water all day. Its amrphous, practically. And don't get me started on the geoduck...ewww.

― mike hanle y, Saturday, 27 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/thylacine.jpg

― Brian MacDonald, Saturday, 27 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3H-886XkN4

― infinity (∞), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link

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