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Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 13, 2022

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What on earth are these animals?

I bought some dog toys from Costco and am trying to figure out what animals these toys are supposed to be.

Here's an image of the pack of 4 animals:

https://richmedia.ca-richimage.com/ImageDelivery/imageService?profileId=12026540&id=1781228&recipeId=728

In case that's not enough, here's a random YouTube unpack video where you can see them in 3D.

  1. The brown top left one, with the ring shape in the middle. Is that a bison?

  2. Top right with the huge ears. Wtf is this? I googled "rodent with huge ears" and then "animal with huge ears", and the closest seems to be a "long-eared jerboa"??

  3. Bottom left. Armadillo?!

  4. Bottom right. That a fox...?

Sorry, I feel like I'm taking a next-gen recaptcha test and failing. I blame the designers who took artistic liberties to pokemonize real life animals. But maybe I'm not human.

Lotta bad answers here. Fucking disgraceful.

  1. Is clearly a Horned Yak that has been shot with a comical 155mm gun; which have that sort orange shaggy fur, straited horns, and large hole through the middle.

  2. Is some sort of disgusting mutated rodent. It doesn't matter what it is, judging by the spots on it's ears it's got the plague. Destroy it immediately and purify your house with burning pitch.

  3. You got it right, that there is a Cusuco. Get rid of the varmint before it breaks all your livestock's legs by digging holes and then gives you leprosy, which they are a reservoir for because Texas and the southwest in general are blighted lands, cursed by god.

  4. A tortured creature, imprisoned in a log by some sort of sadist. Have you dog fulfill his traditional duty and put that fox out of it's misery.

Hilarious. Thanks for the laughs.

Not to deconstruct humor into a dead horse, but is there a name for the trope of your post? Like intentionally misinterpreting artistic representations of real life entities in a way that mocks the artist slash prevailing culture?

Clockwise from upper left:

  1. Moose or distant second elk

  2. Mouse (pulling hard on cartoon mice like Jerry and Micky)

  3. Fox

  4. Hedgehog; possibly an armadillo

Good call on mouse. And I could see moose.

I don't think it's a hedgehog though. The toy has more of a cascading scales in the back, instead of individual spikes.

Sounds more like armadillo then, but I didn't watch the video, this is just based on the photo.

Could it be a pangolin?

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