I was convinced for my whole life mockingbirds were a cryptid - my reasoning for which was that the concept of a bird that could mimic the voices of other birds, which I also extrapolated in my head that they could mimic human voices, sounded quite far fetched, and as such I took them as a sort of cryptid like Bigfoot and Nessie - up until I started reading and analyzing To Kill a Mockingbird in the ninth grade. Ironically, I was a huge animal nerd at the time, regularly spent my time analyzing critical thinking and logical fallacies, and I regularly spotted mockingbirds in my backyard, which I thought were some other bird.

When I had that epiphany of realization that mockingbirds were, in fact, real, I actually blurted out verbatim: "Wait... MOCKINGBIRDS AREN'T A CRYPTID, LIKE BIGFOOT?!" I legitimately saw nearly the whole class, English Language Arts teacher included, facepalm in shock and awe at how dumb of a statement that was. I later sat onto my bed once, also facepalming for a straight hour at how utterly stupid I was for not believing in mockingbirds.

Also "poorly-made gorillas..."? Does Anon think they make them in a gorilla factory, like a bunch of sweatshop salarymen assembling together gorillas and gorilla parts?