If you could be any animal what would it be and why?
R.J.D.
Hmmmm. That’s a toss up. Either a big teddy bear, so I will always get lots of hugs; I love hugs, lots and lots and lots of hugs
or a giraffe. A giraffe because they are such graceful, slender, georgeous creatures with the biggest, most incredibly gentle-looking brown eyes.
sigh guess which one I look more like already. sigh
So, I’m weird, so what?
Changing my sig just 'cause…
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.—Anon.
A coelacanth. I’d spend my days lurking in the deep sea, contemplating my perfect adaptation to my environment and my 410 million years of evolution. I’d have seen the dinosaurs come and go. I’d have seen the first fish (a cousin!) crawl onto the land. I’d have seen the rise and eventual domination of a certain hairless monkey. Man, what a species.
Of course, I’d also get a reference in that cool Volkswagon commercial …
“Now you pissed me off. You and I? We’re NEVER gonna be friends.”
I saw a sunbear once.It looked like an easy life in trees.Sure.
A dolphin. I love the intelligence, freedom, and good nature of these awesome creatures.
But…
If I were a dung beetle, at least I’d know I was putting up with all this shit for a reason.
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This question brings back some horrible memories of a job interview I had several years ago. The interviewer asked this exact question.
I told him I wanted to be a crocodile since a croc has no natural predators. No, I did not get that job. I think they were looking for a more social animal who would be a ‘team player.’
Here’s mud in yer eye!
Yer pal, UncleBeer.
Amazingly, I got the question in a job interview once too.
Just because I found the question so utterly ridiculous, I answered that I would like to be a male rabbit in a rabbit-hutch.
The interviewer and I cracked up… and you wanna know the best part? I got the job, and I’m still working for the same company 
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I’ll try that again…
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well normally i would say Lion, but I think I may have to agree with Johnny, me. Maybe not exactly animal, but a species all my own, or at least of only a select(read insane) few.
This life is a test. It is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do.
I’d be a wallaby cuz nobody else would
Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them. - Isaac Jaffee
A bird so I could fly.
I would be a husky dog. Somewhere in the arctic, living the native life, running hard.
I have a husky dog, and when I watch him run, well, I can’t hardly describe how joyful it appears !
“Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.” Bob Dylan
A wolverine, they don’t take crap from anybody. Even their mating is “wham, bam, see you next year”
A howler monkey, just because they have a pretty neat name.
I could sidle up to a comely lemur at a jungle party and say something like “Hi there, I’m Chris the howler monkey. Will you help me show you why they call me that?”
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And I don’t plan on keeping this as my sig for long, just until the winning buzz wears off.
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I’d love to be able to fly.
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If I could be any one of the things in this world that bite
Instead of an ocelot on a leash, I’d rather be a kite
And be tied to the end of your string
And flying in the air, babe, at night
Cause you know what they say about honey bears
When you shave off all their baby hair
You have a hairy minded pink bare bear
– Lou Reed, “Andy’s Chest”
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I demand a recount.
CheeseHead-
You said you wanted to be a bird so that you can fly. Why not be a fly, I believe that they fly also. Or a bee?
Why a bird over other flying animals?
R.J.D.
Because a bird can fly farther and higher. Also, they are bigger, so they probably get more out of life than bugs. Birds don’t get swatted like flies, and they don’t eat trash and waste. Plus, some birds can sing.
A worker bee or a drone, now that would be awful. Although, that is pretty much what I am now!