Word: animaldom
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...toadfish, with its huge head, small body and slimy skin, may well rank as the ugliest creature in animaldom. Sailors hate the toadfish because it croaks so loudly that it confuses sonar signals; fishermen despise it because it is as inedible as the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder. Piled up on beaches from Cape Cod to Florida, it smells like rotten whale. Yet even mudcolored toadfish can be heroes...
...never see a deer get burned in a forest fire," commented Frank (Bring 'Em Back Alive) Buck, who thinks the horse is pretty dumb anyhow. He rates the intellectuals of animaldom as 1) elephants, 2) anthropoid apes, 3) dogs...
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