Being founded on good, scientifically sound biopalindronymic principles, the reciprocal zoo contains merely:

1x crab spider (family Thomisidae); 1x spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi)

1x barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis); 1x goose barnacle (Pollicipes sp.)

Applications gladly considered for the inclusion of further pairs of species, or of appropriate foodstuffs or activities with which the residents may amuse themselves. The head zookeepers' (two, naturally) decision is final.
-- bibliotaphist, Jun 16 2006

at this point... http://www.bbc.co.u...ritain/springwatch/
Bill Oddie - have my babies... CLICK the forward button. Runty, honey please survive... apparently Autumn Watch is our next treat and I so hope that the rest of the world gets all this... [po, Jun 16 2006]

Tarantulas are also called "monkey spiders" http://www.spiderzrule.com/tarantula.htm
[jutta, Jun 18 2006]

Mongooses/eese http://www.wildwatc...ammals/mongoose.asp
Letter from one zoo curator to another ... [bibliotaphist, Jun 19 2006]

A dog and my dad.
-- methinksnot, Jun 16 2006


//A dog and my dad.// Your dad is God?
-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Jun 16 2006


So there's, like, only 4 ammamals in this zoo. Least you won't get lost.
-- squeak, Jun 16 2006


After a joint petition from the Mexican and Australian embassies, the RZ deigns to permit:

1x kangaroo rat (genus Dipodomys); 1x rat kangaroo (family Potoroidae).

Six ammamals! Six!!!!
-- bibliotaphist, Jun 16 2006


Algea and common water snail? Am I getting the point of this?
-- James Newton, Jun 16 2006


An Aye-Aye and another Aye-Aye (but facing the other direction). Eight Ammamals!
-- Galbinus_Caeli, Jun 16 2006


////A dog and my dad.// Your dad is God?// Every one's dad is god.
-- BJS, Jun 16 2006


if you're sure your dad IS your dad.
-- po, Jun 16 2006


Catbird and a bird(-hunting) cat?
-- phundug, Jun 16 2006


//Your dad is God?//
He is, to me.

//if you're sure your dad IS your dad.//
You are one cynical teletubby.
-- methinksnot, Jun 16 2006


I'm adopted. My mum and my mum, my dad and my dad. Not just reciprocal, palindromic too! (and twice the birthday presents when I visit the zoo...)
-- m_Al_com, Jun 17 2006


Spider monkeys and monkey spiders.

Oh and Monitor Lizards, and primary school pupils who happen to be put in charge of feeding the reptiles.

Oh and Cap'n Ahab, and an Orca.
-- zen_tom, Jun 17 2006


I've never heard of a monkey spider. And neither has google.

But if we are just making stuff up. How about a Lying Politician and a Political Liar.
-- Galbinus_Caeli, Jun 18 2006


//primary school pupils who happen to be put in charge of feeding the reptiles// Does that mean the kids tasked with putting away the IT display equipment are monitor monitors?
-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Jun 18 2006


And of course the security guards charged with watching the people in the building where the remote lizard watchers sit are: Monitor monitor monitor monitors. Unless they them selves work remotely making them monitor monitor monitor monitor monitors. And their bosses are ....
-- Galbinus_Caeli, Jun 18 2006


Do not feed the pussbag.
-- pertinax, Jun 19 2006


Seahorse and a horsie? (Too easy.)
-- phundug, Jun 19 2006


Jellyfish, the other to be served on toast within the zoo's cafeteria.
-- skinflaps, Jun 19 2006


The monkey spider / spider monkey diptrych I leave to the specialists of the Bristol Hairy-legged Nomenclature Society.

On a point of sheer reflectolexical beauty I feel honour-bound to accept [Galbinus]'s pair of aye-aye ...

... Oh hell. What's the correct plural of aye-aye? Aye-ayes? Surely not; too clumsy. I prefer the more mellifluously cambriophile: aye-aye-iau.

Reminds me of the mongoose-bothering zookeeper of legend ... [link].
-- bibliotaphist, Jun 19 2006



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