My favourite 2 animals have gotta be :
The Meerkat, I love these little guys, they’re so funny when they pop their heads out of a tunnel and dart their head around looking for potential threats or curiosity. And also cos of the Meerkat adverts.
The Jaguar, this big danger kitty has got the strongest jaws of the big cats and is the unofficial mascot of Brazil. I just like the design of this animal and sheer power that it brings to the food chain below it. An absolutely deadly and beautiful creature.
What about you guys? Got any favourites from the animal kingdom and why?
Capybara
Bunnies!
Elephants!!! They have a beautiful family structure that looks out for one another. They grieve for their dead. Genuinely able to feel and relay emotions through actions and vocal intonations. Their trunk is such a neat and unique appendage. Generally are gentle giants as long as they aren’t being threatened.
I choose the bear
Raccoons.
Ducks. Masters of land, air, and water. Good ol’ duck, nothing beats that
I’m biased, I just sorta… Like all animals. All of them. So this reply is just my mood for today:
Mammal: Raccoon. The grabby hands, the masks, they’re just cool little guys
Bird: Crows. Clever and playful caw caw boys. Capable of incredible feats of animal intelligence.
Reptile: Tegu. The cats of the lizard world.
Amphibian: Poison dart frogs. Danger bois. Don’t touch. But they look so cool.
Fish: fish are not valid
Crustacean: Coconut crabs! They are big and cool.
Insect: Ants. Eusocial insects are really cool.
Mollusk: those really big snails that look like slime bunnies
Worm: Leeches. They’re cool to look at.
Arachnid: Jumping spider. They are smols.
I saw a video on youtube about an ant supercolony maybe 20 years ago now and ants have been super fascinating ever since. They farm fungi! They ranch aphids! They have designated trash dumps! They go to war and take slaves! They build ventilation chimneys (whatever they’re called) so air can move around in the colony tunnels!
Quokka and Capybara, hands down.
Cats, axolotls, and dolphins.
Cats because, why not? They’re adorable and so funny too!
Axolotls are adorable too. Tell me that doesn’t look like a Pokemon!
Dolphins because they’re super smart. They have been seen using tools!
As a fox/hyena therian, it’s foxes and hyenas. Shocker, I know. I identify with their behaviour, which is a whole thing that’s too hard to put into words–they’re just so me.
Red fox is the prettiest wild animal for me.
I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t promote the superb Owl!
Stealth
Great Eye Sight
Many have 3D hearing to “see” under leaves or snow
Near silent flight
Can rotate their head 270 degrees
Tremendously strong grip strength
Beautiful and effective camo for any environment
Have settled almost everywhere on Earth but Antarctica (so far!)
Great facial expressions
Diverse vocalizations
They can control positioning of individual feathers to either thermoregulate or to change the focus of their hearing.
Their eyes dilate individually to maintain peak vision when one eye is in a shadow, but the other in the sun.
Have a third eyelid to protect those special peepers while fighting, eating, or from dryness and abrasion in flight.
And I’m sure I forgot a few things, but that’s a good start to the amazing world of owls!
The nest of blue tits we have every year. Some of them keep hanging around and we feed them on the balcony. My wife works from home and it is nice to watch them play and eat. We also have woodpeckers every year. I love birds.
Octopus are pretty cool.
The animal with the most correct plural forms on earth!
Octopuses, octopi, octopodes, octopus.
Vastly superior to that lowly beast that doesn’t even have a plural form, the moose.
You leave the poor meeses alone!
I will as soon as gooses stop invading the lower 48.
Meese are the armored division of the Canadian invasion. The gooses and meese are a menace
Overall? Dogs.
They’re the most perfect animal for companions. They’ve evolved and been bred to work with us, read us, and be as close to part of human life as possible. Nothing else on this planet is as in sync with us, to the degree that you have to go out of your way to make a dog hate you. Anyone wanting to whine about why they don’t like dogs, or be snide, expect to be ridiculed and insulted. Just a warning.
But that’s not the answer you likely want.
Tigers. Tigers are majestic as fuck. Beautiful, interesting, alien, massive animals. They’re what you would expect to see in the dictionary beside “predator”.
You ever play any of those games where a bunch of idiots are sitting around asking increasingly dumb “what if” questions until someone passes out? One that always seems to come up is “what animal would you fuck if you had to?”
My answer is always “tigers”. And it’s plural. Why plural? Because once you do it once and survive, why would you stop?
Why tigers? Tigers are majestic as fuck. Beautiful, interesting, alien, massive animals. They’re what you would expect to see in the dictionary beside “predator”.
We have a tautology here.
I’m also absurdly fond of chickens now.
I do not, and would not, fuck a chicken.
However, they are endlessly entertaining, and you can eat some of the things that come out of them. That alone is worth some affection.
But then they make noises. Trills and bawks and growls and clucks and little content beak clacks while they nestle into your side as they get ready to nap
They will also rip food not only from your hands, but your mouth if you aren’t careful.
They are dinosaurs you can give offerings to. And you must bring offerings to our dino-chicken overlords, lest they deem you unworthy. Biscuits are preferred, but they will accept almost anything until they find a favorite. Once they find a favorite, you will be scolded if you offer anything else. They will still eat the less preferred offerings, but they will do it with contempt.
Also, no touch. No touch, only look. Touch gets pecks. No touch, only biscuits.
Chickens are apex predators too small to be the apex of anything but a yard. But within that yard, they are as gods!
Unless you have a weedeater, in which case, they will wait in the shrubbery, thank you very much. Weedeaters are straight out.
Absolutely deadly and beautiful creatures, chickens.
