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[[File:monster-rancher-tiger.jpg|link=Monster Rancher|frame|Do ''these'' look like "tigers" to you?]]
{{quote|''"Fur the color of dead grass conceals a hard, scaly exoskeleton protecting this flesh-eater with few known predators. Its head is concealed by a split upper and lower jaw, and it is from between these that it keeps careful watch on prey through well protected sunken eyeholes."''
|'''Feral ''Croc''''' bestiary entry, ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]''}}
▲{{quote|''"Fur the color of dead grass conceals a hard, scaly exoskeleton protecting this flesh-eater with few known predators. Its head is concealed by a split upper and lower jaw, and it is from between these that it keeps careful watch on prey through well protected sunken eyeholes."''|'''Feral ''Croc''''' bestiary entry, ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]''}}
It doesn't look like a duck, act like a duck, or quack like a duck. But everyone around you ''insists'' it's a duck.
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* [[Septerra Core]]. Certain monsters - especially Thunder Cats (which, in spite of vaguely feline gait and ecosystem role, look more like stone rhinos) and various things marked as spiders and beetles which look very little like their Earth equivalents.
* The Lemmings in ''[[Lemmings]]'' actually look more like humanoid green-haired creatures (resembling a mix between [[Fraggle Rock|a Fraggle]] and [[Phineas and Ferb|Ferb]]) than actual lemmings, which are rodents. The only similarity is the fact that both actually tend to walk off cliffs to their deaths in huge groups. [[Critical Research Failure|Apart from real lemmings, that don't.]]
* Several enemies in the ''[[Chaos Rings]]'' series are like this, with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428015241/http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/Chaos_Rings_Omega/ss-018.jpg dolphins] being one of the most bizarre. The games explain it as these monsters, called congloms, are created by from the DNA of terrestrial animals, but that doesn't really explain why they aren't given new names.
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** White Noise (an aged Anyr hacker) gets called a horse pretty often too, [[I Am Not Weasel|but he objects to that. Loudly.]]
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has Jeremy the "cat".
** That's Jeremy "the creature that nature never intended" actually. Although, given his behavior, he might as well be a cat. This might actually be [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]] instead. [[Word of God]] claims half-cat, half-hedgehog.
** This led to moments of confusion [[In-Universe]], when the teens from the team forget that even if [//egscomics.com/comic/party-050 Jeremy] and [//egscomics.com/comic/2011-12-27 Max] act like cats, that's not how normal cats look like.
* The pet "bird" of Spatch II in ''[[Rice Boy]]''. Has no beak (but a small forked horn instead), neither arms nor wings, sits on his swing like a human, and says: "Fuh!"
* ''[[Erfworld]]'' uses both this and inversion, mostly with horrible puns. "Gwiffons" look less like griffons and more like marshmallow peeps. Stanley wanted a warlord who "[[Exact Words|ate gwiffons for breakfast]]"...
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== Web Original ==
* ''Sythyry's Journal'' references a character's "horse" a few times, then makes some comments about said horse pecking at people with its beak.
* ''[[Spec World]]'', naturally, [https://web.archive.org/web/20081228101712/http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0000265/Spec/index.html has some fun with this]. Many of the animals ''look'' an awful lot like Earth animals but [[Shown Their Work|are biologically very different]]. Thus we have Unmice, Notacoons, Toothawks, and Baygulls among others. They're just as likely to name animals after fictional species and characters, however.
* ''The [[SCP Foundation]]'''s SCP-682 is known as the [[Nigh Invulnerable|Hard-to-Destroy]] Reptile. While it may ''look'' reptillian, it's actually [[Eldritch Abomination|something so alien]] that [[Humans Through Alien Eyes|it sees Earth lifeforms as horrific monstrosities]] [[Absolute Xenophobe|that must be killed]].
* [http://nequ.deviantart.com/art/A-Lykan-1-of-3-253662156 This series] zig-zags furiously. It takes place in a distant future where humanity as we know it doesn't exist. While the space weredog member of the duo [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|likes dog-related idioms]]—turning "carrot and stick" into "treat and (rolled-up) newspaper", for example--, several items seem similar to their usual variants, at first. But "doorknobs" are apparently touchscreen devices that can be hacked, and windows have sliders to control their opacity instead of shades or curtains. Amusingly, [[Uncoffee]] doesn't exist; several alien races with precognitive ability exported coffee off-earth before humanity died.
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** There's also the sky bison/wind buffalo, which look like giant, six-legged bovines, which brings up the question of how they fly. The answer is that they were the original Airbenders, like badger-moles were the original Earthbenders.
** Momo, who looks like a mix between a monkey and a bat is just a "lemur" in the series, and a lemur-''bat'' in [[The Last Airbender|the movie]].
* The nudibranchs in the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "A Pal For Gary" look nothing like real nudibranchs, and look like furry fish.
* The "Hornet" monsters (also called "Frelion") in ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' are green, ten-winged, spike-mouthed, poison-spitting digital beasts, and aside from their "stingers" (which shoot [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]), they aren't very hornet-like. Similarly, the monsters called "crabs", while red and flat, have four long, spindly legs instead—though their name is spelled "[[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Krabe]]", despite its pronunciation.
* Cerbee from ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. Everyone refers to him as a dog. He barks like a dog, is [[Greek Mythology|named after a dog]], and does several dog things, but he's a small, one eyed horned monster who, other than having four legs, looks little like a dog.
* Some of [[Lilo & Stitch: The Series|Mrs. Hasagawa's]] pet "cats" are actually aliens.
* In ''[[Quasi at the Quackadero]]'', Quasi and Anita are supposed to be ducks, but look nothing like ducks.
* Arguably the case of the creepy staring horse from ''[[Adventure Time]]'''s episode "The Eyes". Other than being a quadruped, it really looks nothing like a horse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZdtZIuVzmE with a round head with no nose or snout and hooveless stick feet
* The dogs in ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' look nothing like dogs at all.
== Real Life ==
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** The echidna was originally called the spiny anteater (it ''does'' eat ants, but it is unrelated to the animals known as anteaters).
** Rottnest ("Rat Nest") Island in Western Australia was so called because a Dutch explorer thought the quokkas (small kangaroo-like marsupials) there were rats.
** There are no alligators in the Alligator River. "Alligator" is, by the way, derived from Spanish "El Lagarto", which literally means "The Lizard". Alligators are
* Guinea Pigs, being small furry rodents, have no actual relation to pigs; this was used for comedic effect in a 1954 Disney short, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzlRnuDLsV0&feature=related Pigs is Pigs]''. It's generally held that cavies (their proper name) were first called "guinea pigs" by sailors ''eating'' them, and used the name to [[Carnivore Confusion|distract them from the fact that they were eating rodents]].
** It's not that weird for someone to eat a Guinea Pig, they are native to the andes mountains where there are no native animals to raise as livestock they were originally domesticated by the Inca people to use as cattle.
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