x-animals

i seem to have raised some stink with my moral aversion to animals that are spelled with the letter x. but fear not, there really aren’t that many of them besides the fox. here are a few more:

• addax (spiral-horned antelope)
• axolotl (a mexican salamander that looks like a homunculus; pictured above)
• box jellyfish
• culex (a mosquito)
• hyrax (these idiots)
• ibex (a mountain goat)
• lynx
• manx (a breed of cat from the isle of man)
• muskox
• ox
• xenopus (this ugly frog)
• xiphias (a sword fish)
• xolo dogs a.k.a mexican hairless dogs (either name has an x)

noteworthy: only a single one of these animals neither starts nor ends with x.