{"id":20015,"date":"2022-09-21T13:40:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T11:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/?post_type=purple_issue&#038;p=20015"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:50:10","slug":"10-misleading-animal-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/2022\/09\/21\/10-misleading-animal-names\/","title":{"rendered":"10 misleading animal names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center intro\">Some species have very deceptive common names. <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"no-tts wp-block-image article-in-image photo\"><figure class=\"no-tts aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/dj9jqhxgw9833.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/Layer-0-7-1024x684.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-20568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/Layer-0-7-1024x684.png 1024w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/Layer-0-7-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/Layer-0-7-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/Layer-0-7-1536x1025.png 1536w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/Layer-0-7.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Mountain chicken \u2013 not, in fact, a chicken   <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>1 <strong>HONEY BEAR <\/strong><\/strong>Not a bear but a member of the racoon family <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>2 <strong>RED PANDA <\/strong><\/strong>Not pandas at all but instead the only living members of Ailuridae <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>3 <strong>WHALE SHARK <\/strong><\/strong>Not a whale but a species of shark that can grow up to 18.8m in length <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>4 <strong>GUINEA PIG <\/strong><\/strong>Neither from Guinea nor a pig. Common names in other languages also suggest a likeness to pigs. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>5 <strong>BEARCAT <\/strong><\/strong>Not a bear, nor a cat. Only living species in its genus <em>Arctictis. <\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>6 <strong>FLYING FOX <\/strong><\/strong>Face and colouring reminiscent of a fox but is a \u2018megabat\u2019 <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>7 <strong>KILLER WHALE <\/strong><\/strong>Technically dolphins (largest members of the Delphinidae family), not whales <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>8 <strong>FLYING LEMURS <\/strong><\/strong>Glide rather than fly and not true lemurs, which are only found in Madagascar <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>9 <strong>MOUNTAIN CHICKEN <\/strong><\/strong>This frog apparently tastes like chicken <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>10 <strong>STARFISH <\/strong><\/strong>Misleadingly labelled as fish, actually belongs to the <em>Echinodermata <\/em>phylum <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"footer\">Photos: FROG: GETTY;PORPOISE: ARI FRIEDLAENDER\/IFAW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some species have very deceptive common names. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":20014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","purple_page_number":"21","purple_custom_meta_purple_page_number":"21","purple_seq_number":"1","purple_custom_meta_purple_seq_number":"1","purple_source_article":"article_21-1.xml","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_article":"article_21-1.xml","purple_source_issue":"October-2022","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_issue":"October-2022","purple_external_id":"October-2022-21-1","purple_custom_meta_purple_external_id":"October-2022-21-1","purple_issue_code":"|0000087236||","purple_custom_meta_purple_issue_code":"|0000087236||","purple_android_product":"com.im.wildlife.496","purple_custom_meta_purple_android_product":"com.im.wildlife.496","purple_ios_product":"com.im.wildlife.496","purple_custom_meta_purple_ios_product":"com.im.wildlife.496","purple_web_product":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_web_product":"","purple_publication_id":"58d61955-0ac4-406c-83f1-ab6f21d86b70","purple_migrated":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-09-22T08:26:10Z","apple_news_article-theme":"","apple_news_api_id":"195c367b-c357-46f6-a3f8-cd2b816b3961","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-09-26T07:36:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGVw2e8NXRvaj-M0rgWs5YQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":true,"apple_news_is_preview":true,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_article_theme":"","apple_news_sections":"[]"},"categories":[25],"tags":[14],"apple_news_notices":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/60e0547f-1be5-4fa5-a71c-d2dded299ade.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1","apple_news_title":""},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/60e0547f-1be5-4fa5-a71c-d2dded299ade.jpg",781,548,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/60e0547f-1be5-4fa5-a71c-d2dded299ade-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/60e0547f-1be5-4fa5-a71c-d2dded299ade-300x210.jpg",300,210,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/60e0547f-1be5-4fa5-a71c-d2dded299ade-768x539.jpg",768,539,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/60e0547f-1be5-4fa5-a71c-d2dded299ade.jpg",781,548,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/60e0547f-1be5-4fa5-a71c-d2dded299ade.jpg",781,548,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/60e0547f-1be5-4fa5-a71c-d2dded299ade.jpg",781,548,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Some species have very deceptive common names.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20015"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20822,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20015\/revisions\/20822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}