Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling

Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling (ISBN 0571238513) is the fourth book in the Flanimals series from British comedian Ricky Gervais and illustrator Rob Steen.

The book was published on 4 October 2007 and focuses on the Flanimals teaming up against an enormous swarm of Bletchling, a species that seeks to wipe out all other Flanimal life. The hardcover version of the book comes with a poster featuring a Clunge Ambler and a Molf, in a parody of the movie Jaws.

List of Flanimals

• Bletchling – a 'super-Blug', an insectoid with a brain evil on a molecular level.
• Zub – a fatter, fuzzy Vap.
• Vap – similar to a wasp.
• Hord Shuffler – a blind blug that scuttles around.
• Monk Worm – larval stage of Frag Drier.
• Frag Drier – a hyperactive Flanimal similar to a dragonfly.
• Mov – a moth-like creature that will cling onto your arm.
• Bant – social Blugs who are constantly busy.
• Klunt – a Flanimal with sharp teeth.
• Pseudo Klunt – mimics the Klunt, but has no teeth.
• Hapless Prey – draws attention to itself by sweating.
• Bleak – a gigantic Flanimal with no digestive fluids.
• Loan Figger – a bipedal frog-like creature.
• Goof Mump- appears in one scene but not described. It is green and goofy-looking in appearance and has stubby plane like wings.
• Strankulator- a purple, Crocodile-like Flanimal that lives in rivers. It tends to eat any Flanimal that comes too close.

See also

• Flanimals
• More Flanimals
• Flanimals of the Deep

External links

• Official Website
• Flanimals on Ricky Gervais's site
• Flanimals on Rob Steen's site
• Faber and Faber - UK publisher of all the 'Flanimals' books