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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', with its heavy emphasis on FrogMen and other amphibians, has examples such as tadpoles shedding their tails and salamanders (such as Andrias, who represents a giant salamander) being referred to as newts.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', with its heavy emphasis on FrogMen and other amphibians, has examples such as tadpoles shedding their tails and salamanders (such as Andrias, who represents is based on a Chinese giant salamander) being referred to as newts.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', with its heavy emphasis on FrogMen and other amphibians, has examples such as tadpoles shedding their tails and salamanders (such as Andrias, who represents a giant salamander) bring referred to as newts.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', with its heavy emphasis on FrogMen and other amphibians, has examples such as tadpoles shedding their tails and salamanders (such as Andrias, who represents a giant salamander) bring being referred to as newts.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', with its heavy emphasis on FrogMen and other amphibians, has examples such as tadpoles shedding their tails and salamanders (such as Andrias, who represents a giant salamander) bring referred to as newts.
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* ''Film/LoveAndMonsters'': The giant mutant frog is depicted with the long, skinny tongue of a chameleon, instead of the shorter, flatter tongue of an actual frog. [[AWizardDidIt It could be explained away by mutation]], but it would be odd for a mutated frog to develop a tongue identical to a chameleon’s when its regular tongue would fit the same purpose.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Leo}}'':
** The plot is kicked off when Leo, a tuatara, overhears that he has a lifespan of up to seventy-five years, meaning that he, at seventy-four years old, could die very soon. In real life a tuatara's maximum lifespan is far beyond that (some individuals have been known to live for well over a century), and [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope it turns out]] he really will live a lot longer than seventy-five, much to his relief]]. Also a tuatara isn't technically a lizard, but part of an offshoot of reptiles slightly more basal than lizards (of which the tuatara is the only living representative).
** Leo's identity as a tuatara is a little strange because this isn't a species kept as a pet anywhere (it's rare even in zoos), and is [[MisplacedWildlife portrayed as native to Florida]] (they're native to New Zealand, and in fact a hot climate like Florida is actually fatal to them). He's also portrayed being bright green, like an iguana, and being omnivorous, rather than dull, greyish green and purely carnivorous. Leo is occasionally shown with a very long tongue that shoots out, like a chameleon (even though he explicitly states that he's ''not'' a chameleon, but strangely, he encounters a female of his species that ''can'' change colour), can walk on walls like a gecko, and is shown inflating a throat sac like a frog.
** Squirtle removes his shell a few times with no problem and even mentions it's a hand-me-down from his sister. In real life, removing a turtle from its shell would kill said turtle, since the shell is fused with its spine and ribs.
** The plot is kicked off when Leo, a tuatara, overhears that he has a lifespan of up to seventy-five years, meaning that he, at seventy-four years old, could die very soon. In real life a tuatara's maximum lifespan is far beyond that (some individuals have been known to live for well over a century), and [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope it turns out]] he really will live a lot longer than seventy-five, much to his relief]]. Also a tuatara isn't technically a lizard, but part of an offshoot of reptiles slightly more basal than lizards (of which the tuatara is the only living representative).
** Leo's identity as a tuatara is a little strange because this isn't a species kept as a pet anywhere (it's rare even in zoos), and is [[MisplacedWildlife portrayed as native to Florida]] (they're native to New Zealand, and in fact a hot climate like Florida is actually fatal to them). He's also portrayed being bright green, like an iguana, and being omnivorous, rather than dull, greyish green and purely carnivorous. Leo is occasionally shown with a very long tongue that shoots out, like a chameleon (even though he explicitly states that he's ''not'' a chameleon, but strangely, he encounters a female of his species that ''can'' change colour), can walk on walls like a gecko, and is shown inflating a throat sac like a frog.
** Squirtle removes his shell a few times with no problem and even mentions it's a hand-me-down from his sister. In real life, removing a turtle from its shell would kill said turtle, since the shell is fused with its spine and ribs.
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* One ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'' tidbit had a man in a petshop try to have a [[http://notalwaysright.com/hiss-terical-contest/6199 staring contest]] with one of the pythons for ten minutes before the owner had to remind him that snakes can't blink.
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* One ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'' tidbit had a man in a petshop try to have a [[http://notalwaysright.com/hiss-terical-contest/6199 staring contest]] with one of the pythons for ten minutes before the owner had to remind him that snakes can't blink.
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** In one of the more recent Sunday strips, Jason attempts to convince Andy to turn on the AC or else the heat will trigger "latent ''T. rex'' genes" in Quincy, despite the fact that lizards are not closely related to dinosaurs. Unsurprisingly, Andy is not convinced.
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* ''Film/KingOfSnake'', being a B-Movie about a [[TheGreatSerpent giant snake monster]] took some artistic license with depicting serpents, notably running on AllAnimalsAreDogs when a regular snake exposed to [[MakeMyMonsterGrow high-tech diffractor rays]] grows giant-sized... and somehow eats out the hand of the little girl who adopted it while it's small, even though snakes ''can't'' be that docile or easily domesticated. In a later scene the snake's kid owner feeds her giant-sized snake monster pet ''tomatoes'' without any issues.
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* The Shel Silverstein song "I'm Being Swallowed by a Boa Constrictor" is an example because boa constrictors kill their prey before eating them and swallow their prey head first. The snake in the poem swallows its prey feet-first. This may just be ArtisticLicense, as the poem would be much shorter the other way, and owners will sometimes tell stories about how their snakes can sometimes get it backwards.
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* The Shel Silverstein Creator/ShelSilverstein song "I'm Being Swallowed by a Boa Constrictor" is an example because boa constrictors kill their prey before eating them and swallow their prey head first. The snake in the poem swallows its prey feet-first. This may just be ArtisticLicense, as the poem would be much shorter the other way, and owners will sometimes tell stories about how their snakes can sometimes get it backwards.
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* In the third episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', Tetsuko is poisoned when he's bitten by an anaconda, even though in real life anacondas aren't venomous. Considering [[WidgetSeries the series' nature]], this was likely intentional.
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* In the third episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', Tetsuko is poisoned when he's bitten by an anaconda, even though in real life anacondas aren't venomous. Considering [[WidgetSeries [[QuirkyWork the series' nature]], this was likely intentional.
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* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' the snake in the zoo winking at Harry. Snakes don't have eyelids. And he's talking to it although snakes can't hear very well, though that could be {{Justified}} since he was doing it magically anyway. The Basilisk, as a fictional species, is probably exempt from this trope, but it also can hear Harry and is described as ripping and tearing its prey in an unsnakelike manner. Nagini had a lot of behaviors most snakes would never actually do [[spoiler: although this may be a result of being a Horcrux]]. Also, she had the floor of the tunnel approach to the Chamber being covered in skeletons of rats and such. Snakes don't leave skeletons when they eat — [[FridgeBrilliance unless those rats were killed by the Basilisk's stare and their flesh decomposed]].
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* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' the snake in the zoo winking at Harry. Snakes don't have eyelids. And he's talking to it although snakes can't hear very well, though that could be {{Justified}} a JustifiedTrope since he was doing it magically anyway. The Basilisk, as a fictional species, is probably exempt from this trope, but it also can hear Harry and is described as ripping and tearing its prey in an unsnakelike manner. Nagini had a lot of behaviors most snakes would never actually do [[spoiler: although this may be a result of being a Horcrux]]. Also, she had the floor of the tunnel approach to the Chamber being covered in skeletons of rats and such. Snakes don't leave skeletons when they eat — [[FridgeBrilliance unless those rats were killed by the Basilisk's stare and their flesh decomposed]].
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** Snakes are generally hard of hearing, and it is debatable whether one could be taught to respond to a whistle.
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** Snakes are generally hard of hearing, and it is debatable whether one could be taught to respond to a whistle. (This was fixed in the Russian series ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'', in which the snake is instead trained by tapping to produce vibrations it can feel.)
