Name two animals. Exchange their initial consonant sounds, and the result in two words will be the name of a third animal. What is it?Ross came up with two answers, one clearly wrong. Let's get the wrong one out of the way first, okay?
COB (male swan or a type of horse) + BAT = BOBCATYou see the problem immediately: the third animal is supposed to be two words, like a black bear or a flying fox.
Ross's second answer may be the one Will Shortz is looking for:
SHEPHERD (as in German Shepherd, or a Border Collie, etc., or even, I suppose, the man who tends sheep) + LARK = LEOPARD SHARKIt's a neat puzzle, but the different natures of the animals rather ruins it for me. Lark/shark--no problem. But a shepherd is a breed of dog and that seems on a different level from the other words. Just the fact that it could mean a dog (defined by its occupation) or a man (defined by his occupation) is problematic. But that's just me.
Here's what I get when I plug these animals into Flickr:








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19 comments:
I submitted BUNNY / HARE -> HONEY BEAR
I suspect yours is the "right" answer. I certainly like it better, although "bunny" is too colloquial to be 100% satisfactory. (Just my opinion, mind you.)
"Honey bear" is also colloquial but it's the best I could do.
Bunny, Hare >>> Honey Bear for me as well though I do like Shepherd, Lark >>> Leopard Shark.
Shepherd is a kind of dog, lark is a kind of bird, and leopard shark is a kind of shark so it works for me.
IMHO, none of the three "answers" mentioned so far are satisfactory.
Will has a great chance to shine here.
You have something better MJ? Or do you just think (like me, I'm afraid I must admit) that Will should?
No and yes.
"If you listen carefully on a summer's night you can hear the tapping snurtles". . .was a nod to turtles which are in the same family as tortoises who had the famous race with the hare (not bunny, not rabbit, not coney, not . . .)
If it tends sheep and it's vegetable or mineral, it's a FENCE.
Otherwise, it's animal.
I think I know where you are headed with this, Paul, but can a fence really tend? Especially tenderly?
You tell me, WW.
Ahhhhhh. . .
Ok, fence me in.
Congrats, Lego!
Never had a shot on this one!
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