  Analogical proportions are statements of the form "$a$ is to $b$ as $c$ is to
$d$", which expresses that the comparisons of the elements in pair $(a, b)$ and
in pair $(c, d)$ yield similar results. Analogical proportions are creative in
the sense that given 3 distinct items, the representation of a 4th item $d$,
distinct from the previous items, which forms an analogical proportion with
them can be calculated, provided certain conditions are met. After providing an
introduction to analogical proportions and their properties, the paper reports
the results of an experiment made with a database of animal descriptions and
their class, where we try to "create" new animals from existing ones,
retrieving rare animals such as platypus. We perform a series of experiments
using word embeddings as well as Boolean features in order to propose novel
animals based on analogical proportions, showing that word embeddings obtain
better results.

Computation and Language;Artificial Intelligence