I was suprised that this has not been done before. Well, at least I couldn’t find it.
Anyway, what is your favorite animal(s)? Real and imaginary.
Mine would have to be Bats. Huge Flying Foxes, the giant fruit bats with five foot wing spans. Next comes dolphins.
I love medieval type dragons too!!
Oh, I think I’m gonna have to be boring and say my favorite animal is the cow. Just think of all the ways to cook (and eat, of course) dead cow flesh!
[homer]mmmmmmmmm… cow flesh[/homer]
I’m a great fan of the lemur. I like nature shows in general, but slap a couple of lemurs in there, and I’m hooked. For that matter, I have a stuffed lemur pseudo-beanie baby on my monitor right now.
How do lemurs taste?
Besides being sleek, fast and beautiful,
they are just so cool.
Ever seen one climb a tree?
Among domesticated animals, I like sheep.
No, not like that! (Besides, as I’m female, that just wouldn’t make sense.)
We raised them when I was a child and, though they are dumber than toast, they can actually be quite sweet.
(Yeah, I know that can be interpreted 2 ways. I was going to say “lovable” at first, but figured that was even worse. Sheesh, I’m getting out of this whole post now. Except I now have an image of lamb on toast in my head. Probably tastes better than lemur, though.)
My vote goes out to the Madagascarian Hissing Cockroach. Those have to be that neatest little suckers. I can’t wait to get my own. Walking Stick insects are pretty nifty too. I used to have an aquarium full.
If we are talking the realm of vertebrates, I would have to say the Duck Billed Platypus is at the top of my list. Just simply for the weirdness factor. I mean bill like a duck, lays eggs, and yet it is hairy, and produces milk. I feel really sorry for the poor taxonomist stuck with classifying that little piece of work.
Second place goes to ravens and crows. they are my absolute favorite birds, simply because they are so intelligent and are usually the underdog. Everybody loves song birds, but nobody appreciates the lowly corvids.
Mine is the humuhumunukunukuapua’a (Trigger fish). I just love that name!
Chimpanzees, after reading Jane Goodall’s books. Pigs, cuz they’re cool. Domesticated cats, same reason.
…he’s my boyfriend.
I like mallard ducks. Back home, there was a creek in the backyard, and there were ducks all over the place. We would feed them bread, usually, but sometimes my dad would buy a big drum full of corn and we’d use that. It was so cool when the moms would bring a whole bunch of their babies up to be fed.
I like deer. They are beautiful, gracefull creatures. And they taste good, too.
I can’t choose just one. I go to Busch Gardens and I want to take home one of everything. 
They are so cute. And wierd! I also love platypuses (platypi?). Not many people know that they are venomous. They’ve never killed a human, but their venom causes dizziness, confusion, temporary paralysis and/or blindness, and the shakes.
I’ve always wanted to be a little bird like a sparrow or a lark, hopping around with beady eyes.
Hedgehogs are wonderful too. I want one for a pet.
Heh. Way back, when I was just a little maru, I was terrified of Platypuses. I was deathly afraid that one would sneak into my room while I was asleep and stab me with their poisionous wrist spurs. I don’t mean, “You know it would be scary if a platypus snuck in here.” I mean “I must stay up and watch the line of light under a door, or the PLATYPUS OF DEATH will get in and kill me in my sleep! AUUUGGH!!”
I never really worked out how this savage attack platypus would get to New England. Charter flight? Black UN submarine? Secret austrailian ninja teleportation? I’m still unsure. To say nothing of why.
A spectacularly stupid thing to be afraid of, but that never made me less scared . . .
Tame rats or ferrets are pretty cool. They’re fun because they like to climb all over you, and try to hide in your hair. Crows have style and that “You may have the capacity to reason and thumbs, but after you die, I’m gonna eat your eyeballs” attitiude. And spider monkeys have those neat giant forearms and do those cool jumping tricks. Snakes and salamanders have that whole freudian thing going for them.
Gonna have to go with cougars, though. I like cougars. They look almost small enough to be some kind of pet, have that kinda scary but almost sexy cat walk, and look just wild enough so that they might bite you for no good reason, or curl up next to you if they’re in the mood. I like that combo, for some reason. They occasionally maul joggers. And who hasn’t thought of that?
A close second is those amazon salamanders who get normal salamanders to mate with them, but reproduce on thier own, thus stopping the males from mating with the fertile females of their own speices, and taking over the area. Any vertibrate that can out-wierd my subconcious is worthy of respect, if nothing else. This is basically a Cinemax late night movie, except with less muscle tone, tattoos, and hair. And smaller, of course. I can dig it.
I don’t like them, but scorpians shoud get some kind of credit for being the most alien looking land creature. Sure, platypuses and potato bus look mixed up and demonic, respectivly, but scorps look like something that crawled out of Armstrong’s skull three months after the moon
landing.
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I have to go with the survivors. Crocodiles and Sharks. Crocs have been around for 240 million years and sharks 345+ million years. They are masters of their domains and only been threatened by humans. The basic structure for each has remained basically unchanged for millions of years. Form follows function!
Dolphins.
I would love to swim with them.
Bengal tigers. Definately Bengals.
My favorite extinct animal would be Deinonychus.
And, my vote for The Animal With the Coolest Name would be Morganucadon. That’s pronounced ‘morganookadon’. The critter itself is just some early rat-like mammal thing. Nothing exciting to look at. But I sure like the name…
I like buffalo.
Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats!
Cats of all shapes and sizes and colors!
From the weeest<?> of the wee domesticated kits, to the Lords of the Jungle, I love them all! But especially my wee domesticated kits 
I also love dogs, and am terribly fond of cows and horses.
But cats are my favorite.