Talk:City of Walls and Secrets/@comment-4533483-20110712175227

"However, in The Waterbending Master, Sokka gives princess Yue a carved fish which she mistakes for a bear. The fact that she mistook it for a bear and there was no dialogue to suggest that a bear might be something unheard of or out of the ordinary in the avatar world is at odds with the group's reaction in Ba Sing Se." - I do not see this as a valid trivia point. I say this because the group is seen using un-hybridized shorthand terms for clearly hybridized animals; witness, for example, Katara and Aang calling penguin seals "penguins". Since we already know there is such a thing as polar bear dogs in the SWT, which look rather like a bear, I don't think it going out of our way to speculate that Yue was merely using the short hand "bear" to describe Sokka's carved fish as looking like one of these creatures. The group's reaction in BSS, however, the group is seen correcting Katara's use of such a shorthand reference, probably under the impression that the Earth King's party note would be official enough to include the "hybridized" animal's full name - and were surprised when it did not.