# Flanimals > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Flanimals > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Flanimals.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanimals > Source revision: 1353884382 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) ***Flanimals*** is a [book series](/source/Book_series) written by comedian [Ricky Gervais](/source/Ricky_Gervais) and illustrated by [Rob Steen](/source/Rob_Steen). It depicts an assortment of seemingly useless or inadequate [fictional animals](/source/Fictional_animal) and their behaviour. The cover Flanimal is the Grundit. The book is published by [Faber and Faber](/source/Faber_and_Faber), which has also published the sequels *[More Flanimals](/source/More_Flanimals)*, *[Flanimals of the Deep](/source/Flanimals_of_the_Deep)* and *[Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling](/source/Flanimals:_The_Day_of_the_Bletchling)*. *Flanimals: Pop Up* was published October 2009 by Walker Books in the UK and in March 2010 by Candlewick Press in the US. ## List of Flanimals - **Coddleflop:** A green mush puddle that absorbs substances and flips over to protect its soft top. However, since its bottom is equally soft, this strategy is never successful. - **Plamglotis:** A purple [ape](/source/Ape)-like Flanimal with no legs so it swallows its hands to walk around to find food, which it cannot eat because its mouth is full. - **Mernimbler:** A fluffy, pink, round Flanimal that feeds on honey water and soft cloud bits. It transforms into an aggressive, [ogre](/source/Ogre)-like adult stage when someone comments on its cuteness. They devour everything and die of chronic indigestion. - **Grundit:** A heavily built blue Flanimal with a bump on its head from falling off Puddloflaj. Their small brain protects them though. They bully Gum Spudlets and squash Cuddleflop. - **Puddloflaj:** A pink [water balloon](/source/Water_balloon)-like Flanimal often ridden by Grundits for no clear reason. They are very cowardly as their eyes will pop out. It is almost 100% water and can be used as water balloons when young. - **Flemping Bunt-Himmler:** A mimic and predator of the baby Mernimbler, only wider and flatter. They often get eaten after the Mernimblers grow up. - **Underblenge:** A grey, blobby Flanimal that cannot move from where it was born due to it having extremely strong suction cups (designed for suffocating prey) on its underside. - **Blunging:** A yellow [dinosaur](/source/Dinosaur)-like Flanimal that lives in large family groups. They hate seeing their young being devoured by Adult Mernimblers. - **Munty Flumple:** A brown humanoid Flanimal that stares and falls in love with every Flanimal it sees. They are apparently the cutest creatures as babies. - **Splunge:** A [brain](/source/Brain)-like Flanimal so terrified of everything that it "splunges" at birth, which causes both parents to do so. - **Honk:** A small, pink, [tapir](/source/Tapir)-like Flanimal that sleeps all day until it randomly wakes up to make a loud honking sound from its nose and then goes back to sleep. - **Hemel Sprot:** A green blobby Flanimal that always looks where it has been and never where it is going. - **Sprot Guzzlor:** A large blue Flanimal that preys on Hemel Sprots. - **Clunge Ambler:** An ape-like Flanimal that hugs everything it sees. It always gets buried and pops back up to hug the Flanimal that buried it. - **Wobboid Mump:** A blind eye in jelly that spends its entire life looking for the reason for its existence. - **Sprine Bloat-Trunker:** An orange Flanimal that erupts from Sprog and Hemel Sprot recycling plants, and immediately joins the queue to be recycled. - **Print:** A humanoid Flanimal that dives off high places but always lands on its head. It dies from ankle sprains and strong wind. - **Gum Spudlet:** A Flanimal that resembles a Bumpy Coddleflop, and is eaten by Grundits. They are dipped in Coddleflop by Grundit. - **Sprog:** A small, vicious, [beetroot](/source/Beetroot)-like Flanimal that is angry at its own smell. It’s often chewed and spat out by Grundit. - **Munge Fuddler:** A [crab](/source/Crab)-like Flanimal that "fuddles" everything it sees, until it fuddles the wrong thing. - **Frappled Humpdumbler:** An [octopus](/source/Octopus)-like Flanimal with an eye on one side of its head and a nose on the other. - **Offledermis:** A Flanimal born inside out to escape its own smell. It has a heart above its inside out eyeballs and constantly leaks. - **Plumboid Doppler:** A round green Flanimal with eyestalks. - **Blimble Sprent:** A yellow, fast-moving Flanimal without arms that sprints everywhere, avoiding its destination until it dies of exhaustion at the very spot where it started. - **Glonk:** A green [reptilian humanoid](/source/Reptilian_humanoid) Flanimal that does absolutely nothing until it dies. - **Burple Meepnorp:** A [kidney stone](/source/Kidney_stone) like creature which completes an oddly specific action, illegal in an oddly specific place, and dies of embarrassment after it is caught. - **Glorple Glingus:** A peculiarly shaped [light brown](/source/Light_brown) thing. Often shapeshifts into the punchline of the joke. Reminiscent of Boaz Kidd in its personality and mannerisms. ## Originality dispute In August 2010, [Norwich](/source/Norwich)-based writer and artist John Savage issued a [High Court](/source/High_Court) [writ](/source/Writ), claiming that the original *Flanimals* book was based on his own *Captain Pottie's Wildlife Encyclopedia,* and that his artistic and literary [copyright](/source/Copyright) had been infringed. A spokeswoman for Gervais said that the concept and illustrations existed before Savage's work.[1] ## Adaptations [ITV](/source/ITV_(TV_network)) commissioned a television series based on the books, with a planned air date of 2009, but it was later cancelled.[2] On 28 April 2009, [Variety](/source/Variety_(magazine)) reported that an animated feature film was in production at [Illumination Entertainment](/source/Illumination_(company)), known for its 2010 summer blockbuster *[Despicable Me](/source/Despicable_Me_(film))*. It said that Gervais would be the executive producer and would voice the lead character, and that *[The Simpsons](/source/The_Simpsons)* writer [Matt Selman](/source/Matt_Selman) would write the script.[3] However, it has since been removed from the development schedule, leaving its future uncertain, and no further details have been released about it since 2009.[4] ## References 1. ["Gervais sued over Flanimals book"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-10943920). BBC News. 12 August 2010. Retrieved 12 August 2010. 1. BBC News Online (27 June 2006). ["Gervais in ITV deal on Flanimals"](https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5122488.stm). [BBC News Online](/source/BBC_News_Online). Retrieved 28 January 2011. 1. Fleming, Michael (28 April 2009). ["Gervais' 'Flanimals' heads to bigscreen"](https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002966). *[Variety](/source/Variety_(magazine))*. Retrieved 14 August 2010. 1. Debruge, Peter (17 July 2013). ["Illumination Chief Chris Meledandri Lines Up Originals for Universal"](https://variety.com/2013/film/news/illumination-chief-chris-meledandri-lines-up-originals-for-universal-1200564348/). *Variety*. Retrieved 7 January 2017. ## External links - [Pictures from the book in the BBC website](https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3708144.stm) - [*Flanimals* on Ricky Gervais's site](http://rickygervais.com/flanimals.php) - [*Flanimals* on Rob Steen's site](https://web.archive.org/web/20130703162231/http://rob-steen.com/) - [*Flanimals* on MySpace](https://www.myspace.com/flanimals) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Flanimals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanimals) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanimals?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.