Direct Translations from Swedish - Animals

These animal names have been translated from Swedish word by word. Your task is to guess what these species are actually called in English.

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Direct Translation	Actual Name	Hint
Belt animal	Armadillo	An armored animal
Finger animal	Aye-aye	From Madagascar
Digling	Badger	Has a black and white head
Sea tulip	Barnacle	A nuisance for sailors
Flutter mouse	Bat	Often associated with horror
Shell ram	Beetle	A bug that doesn't resemble a ram at all
Water hog	Capybara	The largest rodent of the world
Tweezer fish	Copperband butterflyfish	Yellow and white striped fish with a protruding mouth that it is named for
Troll distaff	Dragonfly	Has an oblong body with four wings
Muffled deer	Fallow deer	Has white dots
Desert fox	Fennec	A kind of fox that does live in the desert
River horse	Hippopotamus	Its "English" name do mean "river horse"
Key maid	Ladybug	Dotted bug
Dragonhead fish	Lionfish	Spiny and very poisonous
Earth calf	Mole	(The "calf" here refers to the part of the leg.) It lives underground.
Night butterfly	Moth	The Swedish name here is quite accurate
Naked seashell	Nudibranch	It is "naked" because of its lack of shells
Clump fish	Ocean sunfish	Lays 300 million eggs at a time
Ink fish	Octopus or squid	Not a fish, but it possesses ink
Ant pinecone animal	Pangolin	A pinecone that eats ants?
Gray sow	Pill bug	Nasty thing that can curl up
Beak animal	Platypus	Weird animal from Australia
Spine swine	Porcupine	Is prickly
Washing bear	Raccoon	Has a striped tail
Raw animal	Roe deer	Cervidae common in Europe
Late walker	Sloth	It's late because it walks so slow
Killer slug	Spanish slug	Invasive specie that will destroy your garden
Oak blackgame (or black grouse)	Squirrel	Keeps stashes of e.g. acorns
Ghost animal	Tarsier	Tiny, tiny primate with huge eyes
Shield toad	Turtle or tortoise	Actually a reptilian
Hack skewer	Woodpecker	Bird that "hacks away"

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Level 61

Jul 8, 2016

This was fun, learned a few new Swedish words too. I've never thought of animal names, but many of them are hilarious. :) It's no surprise Finnish has many animal names that follow the Swedish model. For example pesukarhu (raccoon) and kilpikonna (turtle/tortoise) can be translated exacly as the Swedish equivalents.

Level 73

Aug 2, 2016

Yeah, and virtahepo. :)