The Williams College Purple Cows, The Campbell College Fighting Camels, The Earlham College Hustlin' Quakers, The North Carolina School of the Arts Fighting Pickles, and The UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs. A handful of the strangest nicknames in college sports. Well, in the UK, they don’t have the same intensity of university athletics as here, but what they lack in imaginative college names they more than make up for in military mascots. Adopting an animal as a symbol of regimental pride goes back several hundred years and has taken on the kind of eccentric proportions that you would expect from the British. So every regiment of the British Armed Forces has its own mascot from Shetland ponies to Irish wolfhounds, goats, tortoises, antelope, there's even a battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment that has a ferret as its mascot.

But what happens when you have a re-organization of the military, and you combine two regiments each with a long and noble tradition and each with a dearly loved mascot?