What's your Favorite Animal? :)

[Phantasm]

Its the Wild Cats that have always held my fascination.They are so beautiful.
Leopards,Jaguars and Cheetahs...they are the embodiment of natural elegance and grace.
http://www.ecobeetle.com/Cheetah%20Family%208.jpg

http://fac.aii.edu/~ph381/gd121c/week07/Cheetah.jpg


http://www.botswana-tourism.gov.bw/tourism/multimedia/img/leopard.jpg

AAAWW!!!!

http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Div/Stafford/hhpms/Jaguars/jaguarhead.jpg

[Fresh V]

Nothing can beat the power of teh Monkeys!!

Very intelligent animals, I might add.

http://tinypic.com/1zg7z5

[Jean_Grey]

^Aww so cute!

I like wolves and white tigers
http://7art-screensavers.com/screenshots/Angry_Wolves/3-little-wolves.jpghttp://www.bootsnall.org/datw/archives/March14_a%20three%20cats.jpg

[Beguiled]

Horses
Wolves
Cats
Dolphins
Birds
Dogs

:)

[Strollymonster]

I've always been partial to flying foxes and those snow macaques...any animal smart enough to use hotsprings and throw snowballs is awesome in my book.

[ToOn~g@l]

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ogifs/Orcaanim.gif

Killer whales or any whale in general I like

http://members.aol.com/khanwe/Wolf_Photos/Sierra_and_NK.JPG

Wolves are awesome, and beautiful


and who doesn't love these guys.
http://meerkats.net/photos-sentry/SENTRY19.jpg


I also like Lions, tigers, and badgers. Oh my.

[Artimus Gigan]

Jaberwocky

[Fresh V]

Oh, how could I forget the awesomeness of teh dogs?

http://tinypic.com/1zge1e
http://tinypic.com/1zge34

http://tinypic.com/1zge88
http://tinypic.com/1zgea8

[Rini]

Bunnies or raccoons. Mainly little forest animals for me. :)

[HumanoidTyphoon]

Moogles and the like you know small, cute, and fluffy.

[Catlover]

Hehe, if you can't tell by my screen name, my favorite animals are cats. Large cats, kittens, all kinds of cats. :anime:

[Sailor Chibi Otaku]

CATS!!!!!!!!!!

Des minous!!

[JSpengs]

http://www.alaskazoo.org/willowcrest/ghoweb2.jpg
I've liked owls since I was little. I like cats too, but only cuz they look kinda owly. or vice versa :D

[Johnny Cakes]

Penguin with the ostrich being a close second. For some reason I like birds that don't fly.

[Elven Moon]

I'm partial to ducks :)

[Czar Gato]

Horses, lions, cougars, dogs, cats, and- of course- wolves.

Oh, and could you guys please not post such huge pictures? It took an eternity for them to load, and my bandwidth took a beating. A link would suffice. :)

[Weatherman]

Personally, I tend to prefer cats, dogs, wolves and foxes.

[Rune]

All animals are special but I've always felt a real affinity with horses, rooks (a type of crow), owls and moths.

[Ephidel500]

Here are my top 5 animals:
1. Wolves
2. Whales (killer whales especially)
3. White Tigers
4. Platapus
5. geese (they're evil. What can I say?)


Wow. I just noticed that the first three animal are start with W. Who knew?

[ZephyrSamba]

Dogs, hands down and twice on Tuesdays. They're so open and enthusiastic; well-loved dogs just seem to enjoy and appreciate life so much and are too busy having fun to worry about how big of a fool they're being ... I love that =) After dogs, I'd say chickens (they're SO blasted comical!), fireflies (anything that literally lights up for its mate has gotta be good, and the experience of enjoying a warm summer night surrounded by fireflies is positively numinous), dingoes (if only because my dog rather looks like one) and ants (they're so darned -fascinating- to watch) round out my Top Five animals ...

[Punisher]

I have three favorite animals:

http://www.bear-tracker.com/raven.jpg
These guys are creepy, and incredibly smart for a bird. It's cool to see a whole group of them swarm over things.

http://www.rainforestsearch.com/images/ya_wood.jpg
Anacondas are cool because they are the heaviest snake on Earth, and the like to spend more time in water then on land.

http://www.users.fast.net/~becard/Altamira%20Oriole-1.jpg
What's not to like about the Oriole though? The orange-black color is awesome, but I don't mind the yellow ones. For some reason, I like birds.

[nevermorewicked]

I dunno i guess i like dogs and pigs.....cats make me sneeze but there cute!:)

[nevermorewicked]

I really like moose though....i don't know why!:sweat:

[HumanoidTyphoon]

Moose are terrible. how would you like to be stuck in a room....with a moose!

[Mittenz]

I usually like wild canines like the wolf and the fox.

[True Noir]

My two favorites are:

THE BABY POLAR BEAR!!! KAWAII!!!! :sweat:

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=Baby+Polar+bears/v=2/SID=e/l=IVS/SIG=11v373m9h/EXP=1109904842/*-http%3A//www.otterbaygifts.com/pics/3598s.jpg

AND the BABY PANDA BEAR!!!! KAWAII!!!! :anime:

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=Baby+Panda+bear/v=2/SID=e/l=IVI/SIG=125fv0t6j/EXP=1109904904/*-http%3A//www.giantpandabear.com/snap/panda-baby.jpg

The most interesting animal has to be the dolphin. They have such sensitive, intelligent minds.

[Ephidel500]

Moose are terrible. how would you like to be stuck in a room....with a moose!Yeah, I guess that wouldn't be very pleasant...:anime:

[purplehairedwonder]

Lessee, I love dogs, turtles, monkeys, foxes, and... well, the list keeps going, but I think those are my tops.

[Scythemantis]

This may turn out to be a long post. I'm an animation/videogames/general pop culture fan second, and it's a distant second, trailing behind zoology. Favorite animals?

...Cockroaches!!! They're cute, quirky and incredibly misunderstood; I keep several species as pets. They really have all sorts of entertaining habits. They can even get "friendly" and enjoy being handled. Their dirtiness is pure myth (they're no germier than butterflies) and of the 3,000+ known species, less than 30 are even capable of becoming household pests. NORMAL roaches prefer to live outdoors, and cannot survive in a house at all. Their "immunity" to radiation, incidentally, is also exaggerated. As far as withstanding a nuclear war goes, they couldn't hold a candle to ants or scorpions (and nothing survives radiation as well as the microscopic Tardigrade or "water bear").

Someday I hope to own one of these (I envy whoever's hand that is) :
http://images.newsru.com/pict/id/548364_20030519181925.gif
Macropanethsia rhinoceros. Sluggish, docile and one of the world's largest insects, as well as one of the only species (cockroach and otherwise) to have an adult lifespan of nearly a decade!

And yes, I will take negative comments personally. Keep it to yourself!

Now, the other animals I obsess over more than others:

Octopuses - physically alien, but mentally as human as some of the higher primates, and I personally think there is nothing else in nature as impressive as an octopus's shape-shifting powers. And yes, octopuses is acceptable. octopi is actually the least appropriate pluralization.

Naked Molerats - crazy looking, and the only mammals (the only vertebrates, period) to live in colonies with a single reproductive "queen", just like ants or termites!

Plain old regular actual rats - best pets ever, by far. All the loyalty, playfulness and affection of dogs with the cleanliness and quietness of cats. It's just a pity they have such brief lifespans. I currently own two female black rats, Fly and Mars. I can only tell them apart by the white on their bellies, so I can't tell which one is stealing my sock here:
http://scythemantis.homestead.com/files/r-sock.jpg
(Behind her is my albino african clawed frog)


Flies - they just look neat and do neat things. Like roaches, people just don't "get" them. The majority of flies are clean, colorful nectar-drinkers and even more important pollinators than bees. Not that I prefer those, though...it's actually the scuzzy, acid-puking kind that I love. Course, they too are beneficial (THE most crucial scavengers on earth. Without them we'd be up to our armpits in disease)


Stomatopods - also called mantis shrimp. Beautifully colored, weird-looking and intelligent crustaceans who's claws can strike with such power and speed that the larger species can shatter glass or sever human fingers. I hope to get one as a pet later this year (many people keep them. You just need a durable, plastic aquarium if you're getting one of the big ones. Which I plan to)


Deep sea Anglerfish - I love all creatures of the deep-sea abyss, but Anglers are pretty much their "poster child". Their mating habits stand out from all other animals: The tiny male lives his whole life attached to the female, sucking her blood. Over time his skin fuses with hers and he degenerates into almost nothing but genitalia, even losing his senses and most of his brain. Many would argue that the same is true of humans, though.
http://www.mailsbroadcast.com/zban.deepsea.fish-big.jpg


Camponotus saundersi - a group of tropical ants that defend their colonies by swelling with poison and EXPLODING!


Colossal Squid - yes, there's a bigger species than the "giant" squid, and its suckers are armed with swiveling, birdlike talons.


Fleas - I'm fascinated by parasites in general, but fleas are the coolest-looking.


Hagfish - also called slime hags. Fish so primitive they lack fins, scales, proper gills (they just have roundish holes), lower jaws, or bone (they're cartilaginous). They're the slimiest animals on earth (they surround themselves in a "cloud" of the world's stickiest mucous to deter predators) and the sea's primary scavengers (they can reduce a dead whale to bare bone in only weeks). Here is the priceless face of a hagfish:
http://www.uwlax.edu/biology/faculty/tyser/QME/files/hagfish.jpg
This is where you finally go when you die at sea.

Penguin with the ostrich being a close second. For some reason I like birds that don't fly.

Me too, esspecially Kiwis. Penguins are adorable though, and I just find it way cool that they're only flightless because they're so geared toward swimming. In a way, they do fly, just not through air...

[Fone Bone]

I like Monkeys!