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and let me guess cheetah - hunt lazy horse ??? (jagluiperd)

Heard a different one today..Great grandchild saw a hippo (in a book) and yell out LOOK PIPPO!!!! from now on........
and a Rhino is always a Rheeeno because we were pointed to an animal by a foreign gentleman in KNP who said "sorry, it is a buff I tort it was a rheeeno"

Cros- Flat Dogs
Warthogs- Hogs

This thread is great for a giggle;

Elephant = Elepanties
Impala = ooks ( When step Daughter was tiny we told her to look after that every time she saw one she would shout out ook)
Warthogs = Waterdogs
Yellow Hornbill = Percy
Tortoise = Skullie
Lilac Breasted Roller = Moms bird/yourbird/mybird depends on who saw it
Chamelon = Michael Jackson (watch him do the moon walk)

Forktailed Drongo - Fred. (on our first visit to SA,Himself was being teased by daughter, who is keen birder, about whether he would ever be able to put a name to a bird. Next bird he saw - and did actually recognise - he called "Fred").

Think reason so many people call ellies heffalumps is from reading the Winnie the Pooh stories.

Can add the following:

Gnu - Wally or Blue Wild Beasts (direct translation from Afrikaans)
Zebra - Pajama donkeys
Warthog - Flying squad

Just love this thread

Warthogs - Pumba's or Another-One-Pumba
Unidentified lump in or near water - Hippo-Croco-Duck
Impala - Kruger Fleas
Wild Dog - Puppies

We also do A LOT of direct translation from Afrikaans which had me in a few funny predicaments when people wanted to know what we saw...

Impala - Red bucks / McDonalds
Giaffe - Camel horse
Steenbok - Brick bucks
Klipspringer - Rock jumpers
Warthog - Pumba's
Lion, cheetah, wild dog, leopard have als been called NO WAYS, IT CAN'T BE on a few occasions!

We call Waterbuck - Kring Gatte (as in ring-arses) - for obvious reasons
Ostriches are FleugelStreuschen - for not so obvious reasons

And we just love hortwogs running with their tails up in the air

Do you know why warthogs run with their tails in the air?

Their skin is so tight that as they run in the long grass they squint their eyes and it brings their tails up.

Warthog - antenna

some of my dad's;

Saddle billed stork - the big job in the dinner jacket
Lilac breasted roller - rainbow bird
Yellow billed hornbill - nosedive bird

My family's nicknames for animals:

Elephant-------Flints
Impalas--------Bokkies (Little buck plural)


Btw My dad and uncle invented the word hippocrocaduck many years ago when we had a very slow day regarding sightings! We had stopped at Nkuhlu picnic spot and everyone around us was chatting about what they had seen that morning. Both my dad and uncle were practical jokers of note and seeing 2 young kids were listening to every word they were saying, they introduced the word hippocrocaduck(hcd) like this----"and what did you think about the hcd we saw in such-and-such a dam this morning?" "yeah wasn't it strange with the hair growing out of its scaley webbed feet" They carried on for a bit longer adding feathers and other bits of anatomy, which made the hcd sound quite a catch if you saw one! The 2 Kids swallowed what they heard, hook,line and sinker and we later heard them asking their parents what an hcd was and if their parents had ever seen one! My brother and I were at this stage having great difficulty keeping a straight face,so the whole lot of us dissappeared quite soon after!! I haven't heard the name until recently on the forum. This all happened in the early '60's.

Good day folks,

I am sorry for the delayed posting of the list .
Here is the list

Impala
Silly Billy Imps
paallies
MacDonalds
Rooi rok Bokkie ( buck with a red dress - after an Afrikaans song)
Male Impala = Ivan
Female Impala = Isobella
Bok
Weer bokke
impy lalas
Num Nums
Ooks
Kruger Fleas
Flints
Bokkies

Elephants
Heffalumps
Nellies
jumbo lump
Elepanties

Ellie poo
Tortoises
Baff

Guinea Fowl
Grannies
Granny bird
Drama Queens
guinea awfuls
Dom voels (stupid birds)
spotted bush chickens
sproethoender (chicken with freckles)
German Army helmets

Yellow billed Hornbills
Heckle and Jeckle
Banana bird
John Smith
Piesangneusvoël (Banana nose bird)
Mlao (pronounced ermlaow)
Flying Banana
Percy
nosedive bird

Red billed Hornbills
Flying Chili Pepper

Grey billed Hornbills
Salt and Pepper


Glossy Starlings
Twinkles

Ververt monkey
Perverts


African Hoepoes
clown birds

Giraffe and zebra (if together)
Gebra and Ziraffe


Dabchicks
Michael Schumacher

Any herd of Buck
biltong on hoof

Crested Barbet
Liberachie ( I know the spelling is wrong but you know the pianist with a white piano !!)


Baboons
Wahooooos
BobbyJane

Lions
LERVEN

Nyala
Ninjas

Giraffe
Dravers
Graffee
Camel Horse
Langkeelperd (long throat horse - the Afrikaans for Giraffe is "kameelperd")
Grace
tall blonds

Hornbill any variety
wannabe eagle
evil ones

Low flying Doves
Suicide Cases

Warthog
mini rhino
aerial pig
Pumbaaz
Vrakkies
Piggies
Hogs
Waterdogs
Flying squad
Pumba's or Another-One-Pumba
Hortwogs
Antenna

Zebra
Donkeys in pjs
Ribbons
Pjama paarden( PJ Horses)

Leopard
Lazyhorse
spotty ones

Wildebeest
Chinese buffalo
Gnus
Wally
Pajama donkeys

Crocodile
crooked lizard
Crocodillia
Flat Dog

Male kudu
buck with horns

Waterbuck
dartboard
Kring Gatte (as in ring-arses)

Lilac breasted roller
daisy maloo in a tree
Moms bird/yourbird/mybird depends on who saw it
rainbow bird

Ground hornbill
gooble gooble
Knorvoel

Kori Bustard
B@$t%rd$

Hyena
Heenaz

Buffalo
Buffs
1920s waiters/ Vinnie Jones
Herbs & Spices

Vulture
Ashbird

Sandgrouse and Francolin
Chickens

Rhino
rhinopig
Rheeeno

Grey Lourie
Kwe-kwe's

Duiker
Nugget

Wild dog
Woofles
Puppies

Any unidentified bird
LBJ (Little Brown Job)

Ostrich
PikPik
FleugelStreuschen

Cat family
kitties

Hippo
Pippo

Tortoise
Skullie

Chamelon
Michael Jackson (watch him do the moon walk)

Forktailed Drongo
Fred

Unidentified lump in or near water
Hippo-Croco-Duck

Steenbok
Brick bucks

Klipspringer
Rock jumpers

Saddle billed stork
the big job in the dinner jacket

cute thread.

Our nicknames (mostly in Afrikaans):

yellow-billed hornbills: zazu (after the character in the Lion King)
impala: bokbokkies (with some change from the Afrikaans song "rooirokbokkie")
warthog: varkies (little pigs)
zebra: pajama perdjies (pajama horsies)
kudu: ke-does or ke-dus (after the sound that their hoofs make on the ground when they run....ke-du, ke-du, ke-du...)
klipspringer: klipbokkies
pale chanting goshawk: "alweer ons pêl" ("our pal again" - because of how often you see them in the KTP)
katjies (kittens - any big cat: leopard, cheetah, lion - for some reason AWC gets called its real name in Afrikaans: "vaalboskat" and not "katjie)
any favourite bird sighting such as crimson breasted shrike and crested guineafowl: ons voëltjie!: ("our birdie")

Baboon = bobjin
Blue Wildebees = Victor Matfiled (from the 'Blue Bulls')
Impala = 'those things' or
Impala = 'the rebels' or
Impala = YMP (Yet more Impala)
Giraff = G-raff
Monkeys = the religious ones (coz we were calling them 'monks', and from there we associated monks with religion
Elephant = oil fountains