This week the girls take aim at Mythical Creatures...
Mythical creatures are the most fascinating of beasts! Often discussed in popular culture as well as well-known tales throughout the ages, mythical creatures are most interesting as they often possess similar features to creatures that exist among us. This week the girls take a look at some mythical creatures and their most interesting features and history.
Illustration from Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra) by Joris Hoefnagel in the 16th century. |
German Wolpertinger (1507) Variant regional spellings of the name include Wolperdinger, Woipertingers, and Volpertinger. They are part of a larger family of horned mammals that exist throughout the Germanic regions of Europe, such as the Austrian Raurackl, which is nearly identical to the German Wolpertinger. |
- Measures about 2 feet in height at full adult development, don't worry no horse-sized lizard ducks to fight and weight averages about 10kg at full growth too.
- Can fly at heights of 30.8km or 100,000 feet for those playing at home and have been known to damage rockets much like a wombat or deer does to a car.
- They are intersex animals having a male species a female species and a Shim. Now, the shim is the most feared of the species, one murdered Sarah's parents, that's why we call her Batman.
- Like its distant relative the Duck, the Lizard Duck has multiple eyelids but when it blinks a certain way it can see infrared, like the predator.
- It eats both lizard and duck food but has been known to hunt and consume medium-sized mammals.
- It has a claw on each foot that can administer paralyzing venom.
- When threatened it can shoot a stream of acid-like feces up to 100 ft at the speed of a bullet (around 2736 Kilometers/hour or 1700 miles/hour).
- They can change color depending on their mood.
- They tend to migrate north in winter but only if the first day of winter falls on a Tuesday.