# If you could choose to have animal characteristics, what would you want? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2004, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-to-have-animal-characteristics-what-would-you-want/276610 "2004-11-25T07:29:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-to-have-animal-characteristics-what-would-you-want/276610/41 "2004-11-26T18:24:10Z")
Wings, gills, and the ability to run really fast like a cheetah. But if I got wings I wouldn’t want some real big and ugly ones. Pretty ones, but still good enough so I can fly. ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-to-have-animal-characteristics-what-would-you-want/276610/42 "2004-11-26T21:57:56Z")
_ahem_ Enhanced senses Functional wings (just strap those suckers onto my back) Retractable claws Ooooh, and throw in some venom, too, just for good measure And replace the hair on me with a nice, soft fur. Not any thicker than hair. Just nicer. And cat eyes. Yeah. I’d be a hott part-animal. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-to-have-animal-characteristics-what-would-you-want/276610/43 "2004-11-27T01:12:48Z")
Gills and lungs teeth of a shark, skin of an Elephant and a large scorpion tail with lethal poison, maybe a few hundred pounds of extra body muscle and a couple of sharp horns on my head. Though the comical possibility of a sperm whale penis would be funny to imagine, since you’d need a wheel barrow to move it with, and any time you got an errection all the blood from the rest of your body would be sucked out into your enormous phallus. ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-to-have-animal-characteristics-what-would-you-want/276610/44 "2004-11-28T00:03:16Z")
The flaming red ass of a baboon… …oh wait…I already have that…where’s that ointment… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-to-have-animal-characteristics-what-would-you-want/276610/45 "2004-11-28T21:47:33Z")
The libido of a rabbit. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-to-have-animal-characteristics-what-would-you-want/276610/46 "2004-11-28T22:04:34Z")
I’d like the strength, agility, and reflexes of a cat. Scaling up to human size, I could probably jump onto the top of a house, outrun cyclists, move nearly silently into striking range, take a person down before they even knew what hit them, and bound away so quickly I’d be long gone before anyone else notices. This would be very helpful for my other job, moonlighting as a Ninja Assassin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-to-have-animal-characteristics-what-would-you-want/276610.md?page=2)