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Tortoise Power: There's Achilles, as well as the dueling tortoises that fight over the ladies.Theodore Stephanides (1896 - 13 April 1983) was a Greek poet, author, doctor and naturalist.Subverted by the fact that Gerry has a lot of respect for scorpions and wanted to raise a colony so he could study them more closely, but his family (unsurprisingly, all things considered) flatly refused. Scary Scorpions: Played straight when Gerry finds a mother scorpion with her babies, puts it in a matchbox that Larry brings to the breakfast table, Hilarity Ensues.Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Leslie finding snakes in the bath.Polly Wants a Microphone: The Magenpies, also to some extent Quasimodo who likes to dance to music.Pet Baby Wild Animal: Gerry has many of these, like Achilles the tortoise, Ulysses the scops owl, the Magenpies and Quasimodo the pigeon.

Then during a party, they manage to undo the lock on their cage and get drunk.

They're given the run of the house until they are caged. One for Sorrow, Two For Joy: Larry constantly accuses the Magenpies of being thieves and says they'll have to bury their belongings with an armed guard over them.Large Ham: Spiro, there's a reason why he was played by Brian Blessed.It Works Better with Bullets: Larry's first attempt at hunting snipe.Incredibly Lame Pun: Theodore is full of these.Hollywood Chameleons: Averted with the geckos and the lacewing beetles.

In the 2005 film, Umbridge is Gerry's mother, and Ozymandias is Larry.

The 1987 TV series features Brian Blessed as Spiro.

Frogs and Toads: Toads make Spiro throw up.

This is taken to a new level when she had her puppy and insists on carrying it around everywhere. She has the attention span of a goldfish and obsessively follows Gerry's mother around, even when she is in the bath. The other dogs in the house don't even acknowledge her existence.until they discover she comes into season very regularly. Gerry says that her Victorian ignorance of the facts of life is rather touching.

Cloudcuckoolander: The Rose Beetle Man who never speaks.

Big Creepy-Crawlies: Cecily the Mantis, her fight with the gecko Geronimo is a Crowning Moment of Awesome.

Also, the reason that the Durrells leave the island in the book is for continuing Gerry's education, rather than the real reason for needing to go back to England. Larry is depicted as living with the family, though at the time he was living in another part of Corfu with his wife Nancy (shown in the film briefly but not in the book).

Based on a True Story: Not just shortened, but there are a few inaccuracies.

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