Whirligig and Longhorn are types of which creature?
Whirligig beetle Whirligig beetle The whirligig beetles are a family (Gyrinidae) of water beetles that usually swim on the surface of the water if undisturbed, though they swim underwater when threatened. They get their common name from their habit of swimming rapidly in circles when alarmed, and are also notable for their divided eyes which are believed to enable them to see both above and below water. The family includes some 700 extant species worldwide, in 15 genera, plus a few fossil species. Most species are very similar in general appearance, though they vary in size from perhaps 3 mm to 18
Whirligig string-powered whirligig. A book published in Stuttgart in 1500 shows the Christ child in the margin with a string-powered whirligig. The Jan Provost attributed late sixteenth-century painting "Virgin and Child in a Landscape" clearly shows the Christ child holding a whirligig as well. The American version of the wind-driven whirligig probably did not originate with the immigrant population of the United Kingdom as whirligigs are mentioned in early American colonial times. How the wind-driven whirligig evolved in America is not fully known, though there are some markers. George Washington brought "whilagigs" home from the Revolutionary War. What type is unknown.