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Continuing on the topic of confusing names that don’t actually give us real information, we have a list of animals that have misleading names (seriously, who even named them? You can do better, scientists). In this guide, you’ll discover that the electric eel isn’t even an eel.

A mountain goat isn’t actually a goat! And, you guessed it, a maned wolf isn’t actually a wolf (it does have a mane, though). Oh, the anarchy! Isn’t life confusing as it is? An Eastern Kingbird is actually in the west – and guess what – in the bird kingdom, they aren’t considered kings at all!