Top 7 Celebrities With Animals Named After Them

It can't be easy to come up with new names for animals all the time.

Thousands of new creatures are uncovered every year, and scientists only have so many dogs and kids to inspire them.

So why not delve into the murky world of celebrity? Why not name a new type of predator after your favourite band? Why not christen a new species of maggot after your least favourite? In fact, back in Hecklerspray HQ we have discovered a new type of fungus growing out of one of our unwashed cups. Please free to write in with your suggestions, but at the moment we are leaning towards Sting or Elizabeth Hurley.

1. Neil Young
Have you ever associated trapdoor spiders with peace and justice? No, us neither. But when US biologist James Bond (yes, that really is his name) discovered a new type of arachnid, he felt compelled to call it after his favourite musician Neil Young. Why? 'Because I have a great appreciation for him as an activist for peace and justice,' was his reply, after naming his eight-legged discovery Myrmekiaphilia neilyoungi. We don't know about you, but this seems like a wasted opportunity. We love Neil Young, but if you are going to name an animal after him, shouldn't it have been a llama or at least something which smells and looks like a tramp as pissed on it?

2. Sting
Now, this is another wasted opportunity, as far as we are concerned. We can think of a thousand disgusting things we would like to name Sting. But in 1994, a scientist - in recognition of the 'singer's' ceaseless campaigning to save the rainforests - named a new type of Colombian tree frog after him. Now we love frogs here at Hecklerspray, but if a Hyla stingi comes anyway near our vicinity it will die - horribly. Harsh? Maybe. But it ain't easy being gr...

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