12 Animals Named After the Noises They Make
(via Mental Floss) If you were asked to name an onomatopoeic word, then you’d probably come up with something like boom, boing, whizz, smash, or tick-tock. But that’s not all they can represent – the 12 names listed here are all meant to represent the bizarre whoops, chips, peeps and wows made by the animals they describe.