When the monster's detractors cited a saying by the botanist Linnaeus that "nature doesn't make leaps," witty writers in the popular periodicals parodied it, maintaining in essence that "nature doesn't make lunatics," and ordering their contemporaries never to give the lie to nature by believing in krakens, sea serpents, "Moby Dicks," and other all-out efforts from drunken seamen.
Sus inspirados redactores, parodiando una frase de Linneo que citaban los adversarios del monstruo, mantuvieron, en efecto, que «la naturaleza no engendra tontos», y conjuraron a sus contemporáneos a no infligir un mentís a la naturaleza y, consecuentemente, a rechazar la existencia de los Kraken, de las serpientes de mar, de las «Moby Dick» y otras lucubraciones de marineros delirantes.