Some species have very deceptive common names.
1 HONEY BEAR Not a bear but a member of the racoon family
2 RED PANDA Not pandas at all but instead the only living members of Ailuridae
3 WHALE SHARK Not a whale but a species of shark that can grow up to 18.8m in length
4 GUINEA PIG Neither from Guinea nor a pig. Common names in other languages also suggest a likeness to pigs.
5 BEARCAT Not a bear, nor a cat. Only living species in its genus Arctictis.
6 FLYING FOX Face and colouring reminiscent of a fox but is a ‘megabat’
7 KILLER WHALE Technically dolphins (largest members of the Delphinidae family), not whales
8 FLYING LEMURS Glide rather than fly and not true lemurs, which are only found in Madagascar
9 MOUNTAIN CHICKEN This frog apparently tastes like chicken
10 STARFISH Misleadingly labelled as fish, actually belongs to the Echinodermata phylum