Seldom-Seen Species: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

 

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

* How many fictional meerkats can you name outside [[The Lion King|Timon]]?

** The sequel prominently featured okapi, a close relative to the giraffe.

** Zazu, another character from ''The Lion King'', is actually a Red-Billed Hornbill. Who looks nothing like an actual hornbill and more like a toucan instead.

** Besides the three named lemur characters belonging to the above species, the lemurs appearing in the background belong to various other species. A tenrec also appears in one scene.

** In the sequel, aside from the typical African fauna, there are some dik-dik antelopes.

* ''[[Dinosaur]]'' not only featured obscure dinosaurs (such as Iguanodon for the hero and Carnotaurus for the villain), but also [[Anachronism Stew|modern Sifaka lemurs.]]

{{quote| Oh, the newt plays the flute, the carp plays the harp<br />

The plaice plays the bass, now that's sounding sharp<br />

** [[Prequel|''Ariel's Beginning'']] has a manatee named Benjamin serve as Marina del Ray's [[The Dragon|Dragon.]]

* Although not exactly cute in the ordinary sense (think [[Ugly Cute]]), the animals in [[Rango]] are not the typical animals you find in an animated movie about desert animals. Cases include Priscilla the oddly adorable, big-eyed cactus mouse, Beans the [[Love Interest]] and desert iguana, and the burrowing owl mariachi band.

** An echidna and a Tasmanian devil also show up.

* In [[Happy Feet]], one can count several different types of penguins beyond the generic black and white ones seen in typical media. Mumble and Gloria are emperor penguins, the Latino-accented [[Plucky Comic Relief|Plucky Comic Reliefs]] are Adelie penguins, and the guru voiced by [[Robin Williams]] is a Rockhopper penguin. Chinstrap Penguins and African Jackass Penguins are also seen briefly during Mumble's imprisonment in the marine animal exhibit. In addition to the penguins, there's the [[Nightmare Fuel]]-laden leopard seal, a herd of elephant seals, and a gang of skuas.

* Other than the main heroes (mammoth, sloth, and saber-toothed cat or ''Smilodon''), [[Ice Age]] and its two sequels were filled to the brim with prehistoric animals that went beyond the stock animals that is so nauseatingly typical in any other movie. You had glyptodonts (salesman Sid's sidekick who got eaten by the marine reptiles, Cretaceous the ''Metriorhynchus'' and Maelstrom the ''Globidens''), the sad and farting chalicothere, gray trunked ''Palaeotherium'', the rhino-looking ''Brontops'' brothers who were harassing Sid in the first movie, a long necked and trunked exasperated ''Macrauchenia'', and giant ''Gastornis'' birds. In the third movie, 'Dawn of the Dinosaurs', it went beyond [[Stock Dinosaurs]] to include a family of ''Triceratops''-looking ''Chasmosaurus'', small stegosaurid ''Kentrosaurus'', a giant pterodactyloid ''Quetzalcoatlus'', ravenous wolfish ''Guanlong'', and a white ''Baryonyx'' named Rudy - Buck's eternal enemy and threat to the ''T. rex'' family.

* ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]'' prominently featured secretary birds.

** And yes Disney fans, the Aracua or Speckled Chachalaca (called the Aracuan Bird in the film) [[wikipedia:Speckled Chachalaca|is real]]... though like many of the older examples on this page, the real bird looks and acts ''nothing'' like it's more famous animated equivalent.

* In the most recent film of ''[[The Time Machine]]'', one of the Eloi men is seen carrying a live black-furred animal over his shoulder, which appears to be a binturong.

* Shifu the Red Panda and Tai Lung the snow leopard from ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]''

 

* The titular character of the PBS children's show ''[[Zoboomafoo]]'' is a Sifaka lemur, who for some reason is actually anthropomorphosized by being fed.

* [[Sesame Street|Sesame Street's]] South African co-production, Takalani Sesame has a giant meerkat named Moshe.

** ''Kakuranger''/''Mighty Morphin'' Season 3 infamously had the aforementioned frog, as well as a crane.

** ''Gaoranger''/''Wild Force'' included a giraffe, a deer, an armadillo, and a hammerhead shark.

 

== [[Music]] ==

 

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Roland le Fay, the pangolin from ''[[Concession]]''.

* In ''[[Off White]]'', the pack is [http://off-white.eu/comic/page-142 shown hunting a chamois.] This might be the one and only time you'll ever see one in any fiction whatsoever.

* ''[[Femmegasm]]'' has a tamarin monkey and axolotl as its lead characters.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Its a Big Big World]]'' features a tamandua (a species of anteater) named Bob and a quetzal bird named Birdette.

* The [[Classic Disney Shorts|classic]] [[Goofy]] animated short ''My African Diary'' featured hartebeest, which resemble medium-sized antelope whose horns are shaped like hearts, hence their name.

** Calhoon Q. Capybara and Who Who the ring tailed lemur (who looks vaguely like a red panda) from "Back In Style" count too.

* ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' series shows not only the [[Stock Dinosaurs]], but also features several more obscure dinosaurs as well.

* The film ''[[Rio]]'' has a number of more obscure bird species, most prominently, the Spix's Macaw.

* ''[[Dinosaur Train]]'' primarily features many obscure dinosaur genera.

 

 

== Other ==

** The original WWD featured coelophysis, postosuchus, placerias, thrinaxodon, peteinosaurus, ornitholestes, anurognathus, dryosaurus, ophthalmosaurus, liopleurodon, eustreptospondylus, cryptoclidus, hybodus, perisphinctes, ornithocheirus, iguanodon, utahraptor, tupandactylus, polacanthus, iberomesornis, leallynasaura, muttaburasaurus, koolasuchus, coatimundis, torosaurus, anatotitan, dromeosaurus, didelphodon, quetzalcoatlus, deinosuchus, and dinilysia.

** The Ballad of Big Al had dryosaurus, ornitholestes, anurognathus, and othnielia.