LP: Mama, come and see what I painted. It's a red animal.
Mama: Ooh, cool. Tell me about it.
LP: Well, guess what it is.
Mama: Um...a dinosaur?
LP: No. It's something else. Not something a long time ago.
Mama: OK. An anteater?
LP: No. Because it doesn't have a long snout. That is its mouth (pointing at the indentation on the right). THAT is the tail (pointing at the part I thought was a long snout).
Mama: OK. Hmmm...I don't know.
LP: It's the biggest of all the land mammals.
Mama: I want to say elephant, but I can see that it doesn't have a trunk. What is it?
LP: [big sigh]
Pause. He looks around the room and dramatically rests his chin in his hand, elbow on the counter.
LP: [another big sigh] You see, it's a...gleason (pronounced glee-sahn). You just haven't seen one before. When I was watching Jeff Corwin, he wrestled a gleason.
More information on the gleason, by Benjamin:
It's very feminizing. It can eat bears. It eats anything that is meat. It can gobble up a whole elephant all at one time.