Featuring a combination of a ferocious jungle mammal and a type of raptor, it is also associated with another animal that enjoys prancing. Often mixed up with something of the same name (almost) it has substantial medicinal properties for one particular culture. What is it, and why would one think of Balki Bartokomous' elation in context to seeing one of these?

queproblema

Please tell us. Oct 22 06, 2:36 PM

peasypod

Bugging you, is it? Oct 22 06, 3:30 PM

Baloo55th

Well, there's a griffin (or gryphon, even) involved, but I've not managed to make any sense of Balki and his goings on. Oct 22 06, 4:33 PM

queproblema

Not being a TV watcher, I had to look up Balki Bartokomous, but I still don't really get it. Having lived an a clearing in the Amazon jungle for over 10 yrs., I would recognize a jaguar, but lions don't live in the jungle, not even the Congo. They live in savannas. However, even peasypod could have fallen for the common misconception that the "King of the Jungle" actually lives in the jungle. I don't know what besides a horse prances, so that gives us the hippogriff--"a legendary animal having the foreparts of a griffin and the body of a horse." Somehow the rhinoceros or extinct giant unicorn comes to mind about the medicinal properties. But I don't understand Balki well enough to put all that together. Oct 22 06, 5:52 PM

Baloo55th

I'm glad of two things here - someone else who doesn't watch TV and someone else who's confused by Balki.... There is a griffin involved with one episode (or whatever) of Balki - but I can't make any sense of it. It's worse than my first encounter with Whatsername the Vampire Slayer. I watched two episodes of that (on someone else's set) before I even got a clue as to what was going on. Didn't stop me enjoying it, though. Well made, if confusing to the newcomer. Preferred the books. Always prefer the books. (Reminds me, must give them back to Julia...) Oct 22 06, 6:07 PM

peasypod

Nobody else ever watched 'Perfect Strangers'? Right. Proper clues now. Come on and do the Dance of Joy with me, that is if you aren't chicken. Oct 22 06, 7:36 PM

peasypod

Times up for this one, too. This is the funghi, 'Hen of the Woods', not to be confused with 'Chicken of the Woods'. It has connotations to the Dance of Joy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen_of_the_woods Nov 15 06, 6:43 PM

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