Random Facts about lions and unicorns in the UK
This is an article written for the #augustinleo writing prompt series for the Day3 prompt ....
This prompt could be described as being a bit Random...
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This topic ... random af, I wonder who suggested it, they must be a beeg goofball!
The lion the eagle and the unicorn
RIght let's get this straight. This post is about lions and unicorns...
Yep but listen before we start, I need to to say Eagles...
The national animal of Nigeria is eagle .... hence the nickname of the Nigerian national football team ... The SuperEagles....
Random Fact number 1 ... The eagle is the national animal of Nigeria!
Do you know the national animal of your country?
I digress, well that is because it is only polite to involve the community to which you are posting in!
I have been called a white Nigerian especially with some of the dishes that I cook, however whilst I worked in Nigeria I don't recollect seeing any eagles!
What have unicorns and lions got to do with the UK?
Let's have a wee gander at this coat of arms ....
Image by UIE 1470 from Pixabay
Before we go on, let's get it out into the open, I am a LEO I was born in the middle of the month of August and this post is written on the InLeo UI, go lions 🦁
Now then back to the coat of arms, on the left you see a lion and on the right you see a unicorn..
Yes unicorns are real animals and yes they fluffing exist!!!!
I am not going to give you a big history lesson about Scotland and England and how those two countries became Great Britain, that is for another day...
No, today is random facts about national animals...
The national animal of England is the LION
Their football team the three lions, football is not coming home if you ask me hehe!
Okay so a lion is a pretty ferocious animal.
Random Fact number 2 ... The lion is the national animal of England!
The national animal of Scotland is the UNICORN
Yes it is reall
Random Fact number 3 ... The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland!
The Royals decided that the lion would be the national animal of England, but nobody really knows how the unicorn ended up being the national animal of Scotland.
It is often assumed that because Scotland and England were mortal enemies then the unicorn was chosen as the unicorn and lions are mortal enemies.
However that has not really been proven.
I like the romantic notion of it, so that is what I say to people.
What about you....
Do you know the national animal of your country and why it was chosen?
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoyed my response to the prompt.
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This article is an entry for this month's Inleo writing initiative #augustinleo
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Today's prompt is Day 3 Random Facts
All ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated, note lead image is generated with AI on freepix.com from a prompt by me.The other photographs are all orginal and taken by me the author.
