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pushmi-pullyu
📅 Updated:2026-09-05
🕒 Created:2011-09-02
🆔 ID:2438
Description
Two-headed, four-legged, one-bodied fictional critter from the Doctor Dolittle books and films. Supposedly a gazelle/unicorn cross; has a head at either end.
The tag is used here for the unusual bodily arrangement rather than the character.
Body shape: no tail, but a head and front limbs at both ends of the body.
They have 4_limbs (quadrupedal) or more, which must be on the ground and facing opposite directions—or otherwise implied to be used for standing or moving the body.
Quadrupedal: (quadruped) Four or more limbs on the ground, whether digitigrade, plantigrade, unguligrade, or hooved_plantigrade.
Not to be confused with queen_conjoinment, where two upper bodies (arms, not legs, at the join) fuse at the midsection, with one figure upside_down and bearing the pair's weight. A pushmi-pullyu's two ends are both fully-limbed and stand independently; a queen_conjoinment's two halves are each other's missing lower body.
See also
This tag implicates conjoined (learn more ).
