Animals that live up to their acronym:

• Goat

Change my mind

Peacocks have cocks. Peahens do not.

Also:

Spider (doesn’t actually spy)

In my town there’s a shop that sells rocks and crystals etc. They also sell sand dollars for $1. That’s right, there’s a 1:1 conversion rate between sand dollars and USD.

Bat (useless as a blunt weapon)

This is just because English sucks, or English speaking people suck at naming things. Let me show you how it’s done:

In Dutch:

Horseshoe crabs are called “dagger crabs”, and look what it’s dragging behind.

Cuttlefish are called “ink fish”, and tadaa.

Jellyfish are “kwallen”, which means roughly “annoying person”, and they’re pretty annoying.

Bald eagles are “American Eagles”, you’re welcome.

A sand dollar is called a “sea coin”, because of where it lives and what it resembles, which is way more accurate.

And a fly is still a fly.

Secretarybird: refuses to schedule my meetings

Animal that does not live up to its name:

cuttlefish - is not a fish

Animal that does live up to its name:

woodpecker

Animals that live up to their names ;

• Sea cucumber
• Woodpecker
• Babadook

This leads me to one of my favourite dad jokes:

What do you call a fly without wings?

A walk

Praying mantis had me rolling haha.

AWAIL (A while ago I learned) that butterflies are named that because they like to drink the fatty cream that form atop of fresh milk that’s used to make butter.

This also goes for german. The Schmetter in Schmetterling has ethymological connections to Schmalz