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Flanimals

In Issue 39 we printed our 5 favourite Flanimals, each artist won a signed copy of Ricky Gervais’ Flanimals. We received many great pictures and descriptions from you all, and judging the final five was extremely hard. Below are more of our favourite Flanimals that we felt deserved a place on our website. Well done to you all.

Burble - Dana Carr (9) My Flanimal is a big, fluffy, green one. It has two big eyes sat on two long antennae. Its name is Burble. It is 6ft high and 1ft wide. It has a long purple tongue with bright orange spots. Burble also has three spiky teeth on the top and seven on the bottom. If you move all the fur off its head you can see two little horns. Burble’s hands have nine fingers on the right and six on the left. It has webbed feet like a duck. Say hello to Burble.

	Nittyphanger - Isobel Birkeland (6) Nittyphanger’s hair is especially colourful so it can attract headlice!

Spangote - George Birkeland (8) It spins webs to catch other Flanimals, unfortunately it often gets stuck in its own web.

	Hakordoe - Izaak Meadow (9) Hakordoe is a Flanimal that has eaten lots of other Flanimals alive! That is why there are lots of hands jabbing out the sides.

Floops - Aredee Pericleous (10) Floops may look sweet on the outside but on the inside Floops is plotting a way for its next meal of brain cells.

	The Wing-Flap Ungeler - Alice Baverstock (9) The Wing-Flap Ungeler has wings to get around but it can’t land because it doesn’t have any feet. Eventually its wings start to ache, causing it to fall to the ground. Because it doesn’t have any feet to run away animals come and eat it. How stupid!

Cymfrog - Lauryn Withers (9) Its mouth is made from a pair of cymbals. It catches its food with its tongue and when it chews, it makes an ear-splitting noise. It uses its loud clanging sound to scare off predators. (Even Adult Mernimblers!)

	Yanki - Abbie Howard (10) A Yanki is a bloodthirsty Flanimal, which is usually grey or purple. It has more than 500,000 adult teeth that are known to be as orange as the sun. It uses its claws like daggers to rip the flesh out of the goats that pass it. Its long horns are blunt and white as a pearl, and Yanki’s eyes glow red at night but shiny silver in the day. It sways its bushy tail around to whack the trespassers near, as well as bushy; it has a huge spike ball at the end to make it stronger. The Yanki roars louder than a tough lion ready to fight, it’s the scariest thing mankind has ever met/seen . . .

Skullytone - Roddy Macsween (12) The Skullytone is a rare Flanimal that is completely unique in its feeding mechanism. This is because it feeds off antidorphins, a rare chemical given off when a Flanimal is feeling very depressed. It tries to make Flanimals around it give up on life with its appearance - a skeleton. Its harmful effects can be counteracted by being near its close relative, the Hoppybunnyarino, a sickeningly happy Flanimal.

	Bider - Nicole Joseph Bider has two beaks on each side of its head, these are for catching flies or small flying things. Bider also has six legs for running fast and to keep fit.

Globglombus - Emily A Quinn (10) Globglombus is a weak Flanimal that likes to stay sweat-free and keep fit.

	Jabbywicksor - Lauren Domaille (11) The Jabbywicksor’s nails are the size of a dinosaur’s nose. It’s shaped like a dog’s jaw with two teeth that are wasting away. The Jabbywicksor has a terrifying roar but now the monster is heard no more!

Spittoe - Saffron Leijs I know a Flanimal known as Spittoe that’s quite colourful. There’s slime on its mouth and the nails on its feet are different shades of green. Orange it has for its hair. If you see Spittoe it could give you a scare. It’s quite friendly I think.

	Pieca - Daniel Moore (6) Even though Pieca has wheels, the only way it can move is by doing blackflips. But when it does that it eats itself . . . What a ditwit!

Flamsosuriser - Zoe Wright (10) Crazy Flanimal with lots of arms, with no hand at the top of his head. He eats sheep, birds, calves and other small animals. He eats once a year and turns multicoloured with spots when he’s ready to eat again.

	ICUAO aka I See You All Over! - Jake Cramp (11) The ICUAO is a complex creature that evolved from the dark crevice of Ricky’s underwear. Ricky found him when he felt a nip on his bum. It has a lot of eyes. (The creature, not Ricky’s bum!)

Ang-Ler-Flan-Fish - Lachlan Dufort-Kennett (8) A weird Flanimal that spends most of its time chasing its light. It is very clumsy. When it catches its light it eats it. Then it can’t see where it’s going. It lives in water.

	Barcness - Megan Lewis (11) A Barcness is a small fluffy Flanimal with two big sidewards teardrop-shaped eyes. Its pink eyelids don’t go up they go across. It has a V-shaped mouth with two sharp yellow fangs. Also on one of the Barcness’ fluffy spikes there is a single red triangle. Instead of having feet the Flanimal has hands with only three fingers! It eats the Flanimal called a Pudgy and when it can’t find any Pudgies it eats grass and flowers. Even though a Barcness’ fangs look mean a Barcness is the most lovely, fluffy, sweet Flanimal you’ll ever meet.

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