I don’t have a single favorite, but every now and then a critter will become the subject of my latest ADHD hyperfixation. I remember thinking skunks were cool in 5th grade. They’re like badgers with chemical weapons. For the months leading up to getting my first guide dog I devoured stuff about dogs in general. I had always had pet dogs so it wasn’t a new subject, just a more intense interest.
For a while it was octopi, then parrots. For some time in 2015 or early 2016 it was possums, the US’s only marsupial.
Right now it’s monkeys. I used to think monkeys were gross and disturbing in an uncanny valley sort of way, so humanlike but not human at the same time. But I’ve taken a shine to orangutans. They’re quiet and introverted like me. Also new world monkeys like capuchins and woollies. Having a prehensile tail would be awesome.
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Snakes. I was glad to see one be an important character in Zootopia 2 and to see them be kings of the reptiles in Hoppers
Foxes are cool. Like cat software on dog hardware.
I like foxes, too. Red fox fathers help take care of their pups. Foxes also make all sorts of weird very un-doglike noises.
I’ve had a very shallow interest in hares for some time.
Now someone tell me a terrifying fact about them.
Never heard of the mi’raj. That’s got a 65% chance to stick as a hyper obsession on which I base game handles.
Lynx - those big cuddly paws
Maybe a capybara. Here’s me dying when I met some.
Guinea big
Look at you, living the dream!
Birds
Favorite bird? The Corvids, specifically crows and ravens.
Freakishly intelligent and once you befriend them the Murder will stay friendly for generations. My grandparents owned a farm and my grandfather made it a point to be friendly toward the local Murder. By the time I was old enough to ask him why the crows all flocked around him some 30 years had passed. He barely had to do anything. He would put out straw during the mating season and food at other times. The Murder would be your friend too, if they saw you with him.
Him. I never could have imagined these animals have much personality at all but he did.
Cats of all sizes, owls & corvidae and frogs.
Edit: I forgot to list stag beetles.
I grew up with cats, always loved cats. If I saw a cat on the street I’d always say hello (or at least try to).
Last year my girlfriend brought home a rabbit.
Rabbits are fucking cool.
Don’t see as many on the street though
Don’t see as many on the street though
Rabbits are all over in many places. Not the type people keep as pets though.
(Moth|serval)s !
I love how you answered this with a regular expression.
The nautilus
I’m a biologist, so all of them. Yes, even cockroaches (they’re so cute when eating cookies ❤️), parasites like horsehair worms and Demodex folliculorum, spiders (all of them!), mosquitoes and centipedes.
Red Panda
