So Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia create the household trio of cat, corgi and big dog?
Unfortunately Italy does not have an official national animal, meaning no animals are enshrined in our constitution or any of our national symbols. However if we had one that would definitely be the wolf.
I don’t want to be too picky, but at least the eagle pictured on Germany is kind of wrong. While it is not specified which species of eagle the “Bundesadler” is, it is most definitely never depicted as a bald eagle (that would be the USA). More usuale would be a Golden eagle or a White-tailed eagle.
Yeah, I wouldn’t be too attached to the specific animal version for each, this is more symbolic than anything else
It’s probably made for Yanks so it needs to be recognizable for them
It’s a black eagle on the official Bundestag seal and flag. But Wikipedia says those only live in southeast Asia. What’s up with that?
The eagle being depicted in black doesn’t make it a black eagle. English is a weird language.
Same for Hungary: the national bird is the Turul, a mythological bird. Presumably it originates from the Saker falcon, so it’s not even an eagle.
If you are interested in the history and background of the Bundesadler, here is an informative video. It’s in German and I’m afraid there is no English version
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What? I always tought Serbia’s national animal was the eastern imperial eagle, but apperintly it is only considired “a national bird”, while the wolf takes the prize.
TIL for me too
I’m pretty sure turkey is a bird
A delicious one, no less
Can’t see CDPR’s office
England: oh I’m a lion
Scotland: motherfuck unicorn man
Wales: rawww dragon time
Ireland: umm rabbit?
Just curious what should that under Slovenia be. As far as I am aware we do not have a national animal, but happy to be proven wrong
Germans simply have an eagle. Not the white head American style one.
As far as I know - being from the place - Portugal has no national animal.
The closest is the Galo De Barcelos, which is not really a living animal but a well known clay figurine that any Portuguese would recognized.
No idea were that wolf in that picture came from.
🏴 winning as always 🏴
Wikipedia also has a list with more countries and animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_animals
E.g. Denmark even has 3 national animals listed and not just the swan in the picture: Red squirrel (national mammal), Mute swan (national bird) and Small tortoiseshell (national butterfly).
We in Finland have 4. Other countries need to step up their game.
Wait we do? I didn’t realize we even had one official animal, let alone 4
Edit: the Finnish Wikipedia claims we have 6 official animals, one of them being ladybugs:
There’s one “national animal” and then there’s national horse, insect, fish, bird, butterfly and one that wasn’t on your list, national dog. So that’d be seven. Get on our level, other countries!
How could they leave out this good boy from hte list
True! For all you non-Nordics, that’s a Finnish Spitz and they’re certified good boyes. My personal favorite is the Finnish Lapphund because they’re so incredibly floofy, and it’s an interesting breed because it was originally bred by the Sámi for herding reindeer:
Team unicorn, represent! I’d swear half the entrance doorways to our historic buildings have the lion and the unicorn carved above, and everyone still seems surprised by the “Scotland’s national animal is a what now?” response.
I imagine, the problem is that a unicorn is just a horse with a horn. If it’s not puking rainbows, you might not really notice it…
They should revise it and give it a rainbow horn or manes
I always find it weird when countries use animals that are not native to their country. Although in Scotland I’m pretty sure that unicorns actually exist somewhere. Or at least, they do if you drink enough.
The UK using the lion is the funniest shit to me. It just seems like such a sad cope.
They’ll fly it to Rwanda soon enough anyway
Most of their popular stuff is imported, so it’s only consistent that they’d import this as well
Hi, unicorn here. We do exist!
It’s symbolical after all
According to an ancient folk song, the land of unicorns is near Achnasheen.
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Poland’s should be a stork not a grey heron 😜
