Talk:Marsupilami

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[edit] Features

The author who created the Marsupilami allocated it peculiar features: he made it an egg-laying animal although it is a mammal. According to its name, it must be a marsupial like kangaroos, opossums etc. To my knowledge, the only mammal laying eggs is the DUCKBILL. The aforementioned marsupilami looks like a monkey, so that is must be essentially a placental mammal, not a marsupial, and above all, no egg-laying animal.

"Marsupilami" is a name, although Franquin probably had the word in mind, it doesn't have to mean it IS a marsupial... I believe there is a book in french, which explains much of how the Marsupilami works. Unfortunately, I have forgotten the name by now. It is a cartoon-like semi-scientific picture book...

I believe the bellybutton wasn't actually a bellybutton. It was a messager from the parents to the children, if I remember right. The children listened to it, to learn information, instead of learning it orally or though experience... =S

There are three types of mammal, monotremes, marsupials and placentals. Only monotremes lay eggs, only marsupials should be called "marsupial", and only placentals have belly buttons. It would appear that this particular combination of features was designed to highlight the animal's fictional naturematturn 14:26, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

I added the Marsupilami's imitation skills, which was mentioned in a few of Franquin's original books, as well as being a pivotal part to the story in one. I know that he could speak generally in the animated series, but I haven't seen much to know if that was only to other animals, or to humans too. Anyway, I wouldn't consider the animated series canon. 85.226.122.222 17:52, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

The animal does lay eggs, pear shaped eggs. The belly button is not actually a belly button, it just looks like one. The fictional scientist who studied the animal in the comicscalled it, and this is loosely translated, a "thingy". It seemed to somehow pass on information from an adult to a child, when the child put its ear to the thingy.

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An contribution by User:Mariano Moldes I felt needed removal, Feel free to source it. MURGH ^disc. 04:27, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

(Interestingly enough, Jorge Luis Borges describes a very similar creature under the title An Animal Dreamt by Kafka (In El Libro de los Seres Imaginarios, "The Book of Imaginary Beings" in collaboration with Margarita Guerrero). There he quotes a description by Franz Kafka in his work Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande. The animal in question has a very large tail, many meters long, fox-like. He'd like to grab this tail but the animal is always on the move, the tail swinging from side to side. The animal has something of a kangaroo but the small oval head is uncharacteristic and somehow human-like; only the teeth have expressive force, regardless if it shows or conceals them. He goes on to comment that he has the impression that the creature is attempting to train him as he takes the tail away every time the narrator tries to grab it, just to wait for a new attempt and repeat the whole sequence.

It isn't that similar, actually. It's only superficially similar in its tail length... 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 18:23, 10 April 2007 (UTC)