Mothbears & Other Unlikely Animal Hybrids

Eduard Brenton
4 min readAug 14, 2023

What if this domesticated animal was fused with this nightmarish parasite?

What if this huge mythical creature was mixed with this cute little fella?

What if this garden pest was crossed with this David Attenborough favourite?

These are just some of the questions the thousands of monkeys who write these articles under the dominion of their sloth overlords think about on a daily basis.

The results are as follows.

Moth/Bear: Mothbear

Original artwork by Sloth Machine

What would a moth bear look like? Would it be big, like a bear, or small, like a moth?

Imagine how overpowered a huge, flying mothbear would be.

Now imagine that same mothbear surprising you when you open your closet in the autumn, before proceeding to flap around your room in a panic before singing itself on the bulb of your bedside lamp and dying a twitchy death on the floor.

Goose/Chameleon: Goosemeleon

Original artwork by Sloth Machine

What if there were geese that could blend into their surroundings? You could be walking around a lake and have no idea there were geese all around…

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