Borges said he found this nugget in an ancient Chinese encyclopedia. Apologies if I have reproduced it before, and also because its slightly off topic. But it's as great a list of kinds of animal as you could ever hope to come across. There are actually 14 kinds of animal.
1.those that belong to the Emperor,
2.embalmed ones,
3.those that are trained,
4.suckling pigs,
5.mermaids,
6.fabulous ones,
7.stray dogs,
8.those included in the present classification,
9.those that tremble as if they were mad,
10.innumerable ones,
11.those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
12.others,
13.those that have just broken a flower vase,
14.those that from a long way off look like flies.
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