The Animal Couplet game

The azure-rumped tanager is a New World bird
The canary is oft kept in a cage which is quite absurd
The penguin eats fish and stands very tall
While the armadillo eats grubs and rolls in a ball.

cod
bass
dab
crusted weed-fish

Cod on the Grand Banks used to abound
Bass I will catch, if there's any around
Dab is small, can be used as bait
Crusted weed-fish look odd on your plate

excuse grammatical error (poetic licence), and

stick insect
termite
killer ant
tsetse fly

stick insect
termite
killer ant
tsetse fly

Stick insect into batter and stir all night
Add some raisins and a cup of termite
Some killer ant for spice
And sauteed tse tse fly would be nice.

Carpenter bee
Labrador retriever
Panda
Meerkat

A Carpenter Bee is repairing the door on my house
While my Labrador Retriever is chasing a mouse.
My pet Panda is sitting on his bamboo swing
But, my Meerkat has run off with the Lion King.

Doodlebug
Beetle
Katydid
Glowworm

Doodlebug or not?
it Beetle be so!
Katydid i saw her,
Glowworm, glow.

ostrich
camel
wolverine
knat

The ostrich can run fast and bury its head
But not simultaneously, be it said
The camel is viscious and humpy and smells
But good in the desert, where there's not many wells
The wolverine's lupine, with furrier hair
Bad attitude counts for a lot, so beware
The gnat is just one of these pestilent flies
That gets in your hair and your ears and your eyes
The midge and the black fly, there's quite a few more
Just waiting their chance when you go out the door.

-If a tree falls in the forest and there's nobody there to hear it, will they still be bitten by midges?

heron
kite
newt
tadpole

The heron stared from the river bed
To watch the kite fly overhead
Then it plunged and caught a newt
And the tadpole thought I'd better scoot.

avocet
accentor
baboon
badger

Avocet, elegant bird in flight
Accentor, beats me, try as I might
I can't remember, silly baboon
I'll go and badger my wife, then sit doon

With a dictionary, birdbook, or other tome
To identify accentor, when it's at home

slowworm
glowworm
tapeworm
grub

slowworm
glowworm
tapeworm
grub

a worm, a slowworm, gliding by;
A worm, a glowworm, riding high;
A worm, a tapeworm, long and evil;
A grub that wants to become a weevil.

great northern diver
cocker spaniel
borzoi
long-tailed tit

McTag
A little bird told me, can't think who
That an accentor you couldn't find.
Well here is a picture of one for you
A Siberian one, do you mind?

re: poem game
thats a cute poem

great northern diver
cocker spaniel
borzoi
long-tailed tit

The Great Northern Diver, aka "Loon"
flys from a cocker spaniel, oh so soon
while the large white borzoi runs like a goon
and the long-tailed tit tries to hide like a coon.

oh man that one was hard...

how bout

Sugar Glider
genet
short tail oppossum
corn snake

The Sugar Gliders are cute indeed,
The Genet roams around with speed,
The Short Tail oppossums busily breed,
while the Corn snake hunts along with greed.

Try this:

Boa Constrictor
Tarsier
Coelacanth
Yokohama Rooster

The boa constictor coils with ease,
the Tarsiers are happy to live in the trees.
The ceolacanth is not extinct,
the Yokohama Rooster is rarely succinct.

Coronoviridae
Leptospira
Canis Lupus
Ursus Americanus

Coronoviridae live in a book
Leptospira, in water you look
Canis lupus, a wolf or a dog
Ursus US, a bear on a log

tse tse fly
marmoset
elk
pipistrelle

tse tse fly you sound so silly
oh little marmoset, you're fur's so fluffy.
Elk in the woods you cautiously hide
and above is the pipistrelle with wings opened wide.

Pangolin
Komodo Dragon
Lynx
Manatee

The Pangolin became a star for catching ants
As the Komodo Dragon twirled a dance
The feline Lynx real sleek with fur
Gave the Manatee a cause to purr

Hawk
Squirrel
Rat
Bear

Hawk in the sky, flying so high
Squirrel is gone in the blink of an eye
Rat gets a bad press, down below
Bear likes dancing. Go, Bear, go!

crocodile
hippo
flamingo
pirhana

the crocodile awaits for its prey
while the hippos happily play,
alone, the flamingo stood still
but the piranhas in amazon wants to kill


ant eaters
peacock
tamaraw
king lobster

Anteaters' noses probe nooks and crannies
Peacocks display their kaleidoscope fannies
Tamaraw sounds like a bird in flight
King lobster stars in my cookout tonight

cat
bat
rat
sprat

the cat purrs with delight,
the bat is afraid of the light,
so as the dirty rat
whose favorite food is the sprat

giraffe
vulture
dingo
seal