Animals with the wrong names

Honey bear The honey bear or kinkajou, is doubly misleading. It is not only a member of the racoon family, but it also does not eat honey!

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Red panda (Ailurus fulgens) Red pandas are not pandas at all. Instead, they are the sole extant members of their own taxonomic family, Ailuridae, and are linked to racoons, skunks, and badgers.

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Whale shark This shark (and therefore a fish) has been reported to grow up to 18.8 m in length, equal to a sperm whale, and is the world's largest non-cetacean (whale and dolphin group) mammal.

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Guinea pig Being neither from Guinea nor a pig, it is hard to understand how these little rodents got their misleading name.

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Bearcat This animal is not a bear, nor a cat, nor closely related to either. Like the red panda, it is out there on its own, being the only living species in its genus Arctictis.

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Flying fox It's simple to understand how this ginger-haired bat got its misleading name. Its features and colour are quite suggestive of a fox.

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Killer whales Killer whales (or orcas) are closely related to whales and are classified in the same order, Cetacea. However, they are dolphins, not whales.

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Flying lemur This name is not quite trustworthy is that flying lemurs are not found on the island of Madagascar. As you may or may not know, true lemurs are only found in Madagascar.

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Mountain chicken You may well be thinking, this frog looks nothing like a chicken! And you would be right, it doesn't.

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