Animal Adjectives
Vulpine, like the bat-eared or the crab-eating
Fox
The lid on his N.Z. aquarium tank ajar, Inky--this cephalopod--slid to freedom down a 164-foot drainpipe into a bay
Octapus
Allan "Rocky" Lane was a movie cowboy hero but is perhaps best known for voicing this '60s TV horse
Mister Ed
In "The Third Man", Orson Welles says Switzerland's 500 yeas of peace & democracy only produced this timepiece
Cuckoo Clock
One happy girl on a Costa Rica expedition remarked that this animal "was a lot faster than I thought"
Sloth
Ostracean, like the Olympia or the pearl
Oyster
In 2007 the last words Alex, an African grey this, said to his person were "You be good ...I love you"; man, is it dusty in here?
Parrot
Voiced by Emily Blunt, a unicorn named Tempest Shadow pursued Twilight Sparkle & the rest of the Mane 6 in this film
My Little Pony
Lewis Carroll included himself in Wonderland as this bird--a childhood nickname he got for stuttering his real last name
A dodo
Seals, beware of orcas working together in this 3-letter group--the orcas' strategies can be most effective
A pod
Lupine, like the Ethiopian or the timber
Wolf
In 2016 beekeepers cleared 20,000 bees from a car in Wales after the bees tracked it for 2 days in order to free this
The queen bee
This animated TV comedy shows us what has become of the beloved star of "Horsin' Around"
BoJack Horseman
In the song "The 12 Days Of Christmas", it's the largest group of birds given on a single day, the seventh
Swans
Komodo dragons' tongues touch air, then touch chemoreceptors in the mouth as part of this smelling system
The olfactory system
Columbine, like the rock or the mourning
Dove
"Tea with Mussolini" was a fave film of Koko, this animal; at a sad part, Koko signed "frown" & "trouble"
Gorilla
Leah Hofmann was one of the many actor/puppeteers who brought Joey to life in this Broadway production
War Horse
This PBS bird has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
Big Bird
Polar bear cubs stay with Mom for two and a half years, ultimately going through this process of moving off her milk
Weaning
Anserine, like the snow or the nene
Goose
Immobilized by cramps in an arctic pool in 2009, a diver was helped to the surface by Mila, this type of white whale
Beluga Whale
In a 1939 movie, reincarnation as a horse causes him to say, "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into"
Oliver Hardy
This man's 414 B.C. comedy "The Birds" features a chorus of them that directly addresses the audience
Aristophanes
The calf of the Svalbard subspecies of this animal can be quite playful
Caribou (reindeer)