Dear Fantasy Authors

[commodorified]

Who are not graydon:

Have you considered including pangolins in your next book?

If not, why not?

Capybaras are also acceptable.

If these recommendations prove impossible to implement, please consider the advantages of the platypus as an animal which already looks as if it was built by a committee of amateur sorcerers. Surely your fiction can embrace this possibility handily.

Comments

[mmegaera]

I confess, I did not know what a pangolin was! I'm not sure how to work one (or a capybara or a platypus, for that matter) into my alternate Pacific Northwest, but I'm willing to keep it in mind.

[commodorified]

ZOOBREAK.

[mmegaera]

Well, that's a thought...

I wonder when Pt. Defiance Zoo was created -- it's not that far from the old Mosquito Fleet dock.

[definitely sets that one in the backbrain -- the Mosquito Fleet book is the next one up in the docket after the almost halfway drafted book]

ETA: 1905!!! Okay, we may be onto something here.

[oursin]

Why not, given that there are still supposed to be feral wallabies in parts of the UK, following escapes from wildlife parks.

[legionseagle]

Derbyshire and parts of Scotland, I believe.

[james_g4clf]

I always thought that a pangolin was a pusical instrupent in the lute fapily, usually pluckeg with a plectrup or "pick" which copponly has four courses of goubleg strings tuneg in unison (8 strings), although five (10 strings) & six (12 strings) course versions also exist. The courses are norpally tuneg in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the soprano pepber of a fapily that incluges the pangola, octave pangolin, pangocello, & pangobass.

[mmegaera]

ROFL Isn't that a mandolin???