Prehensile black tongue
Pokes out, and above it two
Hairy ossicones!
#Giraffe @KirstenYeg 1/45
I'll protect your sheep.
I'll carry your heavy load.
I'll spit in your face.
#Llama @MBonoTheYounger 2/45
We are not a band,
But high up on craggy land
dance on cloven hooves.
#MountainGoat @katzyna 3/45
A cephalopod:
Arm, arm, arm, arm, arm, arm, arm...
Where's the other one?
#Octopus @katherinegould 4/45
Badger-folk I see:
Mustelids and Hufflepuffs;
Redwall forever!!
#Badger @chuckboland 5/45
Down under, petite,
leaping to eat nectar, or
maybe in torpor.
#PygmyPossum @TCastanea 6/45
Jawless, perhaps, but
I can still suck your blood with
an ocean of teeth.
#Lamprey @CSULBPhysGique 7/45
Madame Berthe, is that
a mouse lemur? My, what large
testicles it has!
#MouseLemur @LynneVenart 8/45
Gliding high above
Arctic tundra, gyrfalcon
casts little shadow.
#Gyrfalcon @mbeug2 9/45
In Madagascar,
sifakas leap and hop, but
never crack a smile.
#Sifaka @annedaugherty 10/45
A great blue heron
STABS! then eats, powder clumping.
Say goodbye, fish slime.
#GreatBlueHeron @worldaw8ed 11/45
The fawn on the lawn
faces East at dawn; it is
still, with golden sheen.
#Fawn @SophieLGilbert 12/45
I love you a peck,
a bushel of feathers still
cloaked around my neck.
#Chicken @Rocket_Nugget 13/45
Small and flamboyant,
you can mail the eggs of this
fish out of water.
#Killifish @drsbello 14/45
Like tiny tapirs
or miniscule pachyderms,
but we eat more bugs.
#ElephantShrew @boyleslab 15/45
To be continued.....
It's time for more animal haikus!! Unfortunately, I no longer remember who asked for which creature, but I do still have my list of animals. So here we go...
Common Suriname,
Eggs exploding from its back.
What the heck, nature?
#Frog 16/45
It's a horse, of course.
But it cannot count to ten.
Nice try, Clever Hans.
#Horse17/45
I'm 'eater of twigs'
or 'he who strips of the bark.'
Or 'sprinkler monster'?
#Moose 18/45
I'm venomous and
won't be happy as your pet.
Please leave me alone.
#SlowLoris 19/45
I don't eat popcorn
but I love to eat fruit, like...
figs, figs, and more figs!
#Binturong 20/45
Up and down the trees,
a passel of opossums
picks thousands of ticks.
#Opossum 21/45
African monkeys,
unlike other mangabeys...
Gee, its own genus!
#Kipunji 22/45
'Killers' of the sea,
but excellent grandmas too.
Thanks for all the seals!
#Orca 23/45
I think that female
might be happy to see me?
Chomp those bones, lady!
#Hyena 24/45
Molt and molt again,
acrobatic little gems.
I've left you some seeds.
#AmericanGoldfinch 25/45
Prehistoric worm
has spikes and a teeth-lined gut.
Smile for the nightmare!
#Hallucigenia 26/45
Hypnotic dancers,
tunneling through your business,
leaving only musk.
#Ferret27/45
To be continued (again)....
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