# What is your favorite animal? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2000, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695 "2000-08-25T05:33:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/21 "2000-08-25T21:01:18Z")
Burrowing Owls. Namewise, I like the Little Flying Cow (\* Nanonycteris veldkampi \*). Can’t find a picture, but it’s the darn cutest bat you ever saw. ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/22 "2000-08-25T21:03:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jophiel \* > \*\*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. \*\* Have you seen the documentary with John Cleese & lemurs? Good stuff. PBS seems to show it every couple months or so. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/23 "2000-08-25T21:54:12Z")
the weasel matches my personality perfectly (see sig) ---
**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/24 "2000-08-25T22:20:13Z")
My favorite extant animal is the Galapagos tortoise. I could hang out with them for hours at the San Diego zoo. My favorite extinct animal has to be Opabinia, an extremely odd little Cambrian creature known from the Burgess Shale. 5 eyes, a long vaccum-cleaner-hose-like nozzle with a claw at the end, and a hotly debated taxonomy. One of the more bizarre animals to ever evolve. ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Sea\_Sloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sloth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/25 "2000-08-25T22:43:35Z")
My favorite animal is the sloth because I can relate to it. If I could I would spend 14 hours a day sleeping and the rest of the time eating. The sloth is the best animal ever ever in the whole world because it is allowed to be lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Sea\_Sloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sloth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/26 "2000-08-25T22:45:00Z")
Hey - that was my 100th post. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/27 "2000-08-25T23:30:36Z")
**Black12** , may I suggest to you my favourite animal, the koala bear. They sleep a mere 22 hours a day, only eat one kind of food, and never even bother to drink water. They stand Darwin’s Survival of the Fittest law on its head. Survival of the Luckiest, more like. The koala bear also gets my vote because people think it’s so cute, despite the fact that it smells like a pair of old socks. Perhaps this explains their survival–what predator would want to eat something that smelled like that? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/28 "2000-08-26T00:49:24Z")
The throat-warbler mangrove. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/29 "2000-08-26T00:55:43Z")
Capybaras. The only mammal that was once classified as an aphibian by the Catholic Church. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/30 "2000-08-26T01:14:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michi \* > \*\*I can’t choose just one. I go to Busch Gardens and I want to take home one of everything. 🙂 \*\* LOL, I almost did once. Back in high school I went to Busch Gardens with some friends. We almost left there with a baby Galapagos turtle from the petting zoo. He was only like 10lbs. We had him in the backpack and everythingm, but we decided to put him back and come get him at the end of the day because it was still really early and we did not want him to get hurt or something in the backpack. When we came back for him, the tortoise was put away because it was getting dark and too cold for him. We were mad then, but thank IPU we did not leave there with him. How the hell would I explain the now gigantic turtle walking around my apartment. I am so glad that the police department only asks “What is the most expensive thing you ever stole?” and not “What is the most expensive thing you _almost_ stole?” on the pre-employment polygraph. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/31 "2000-08-26T03:30:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bear\_Nenno \* > Mine would have to be Bats. Not bears? Mine would be felines (tigers, panthers, leopards, cheetahs, lions, housecats, etc.), wolves and dragons. ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/32 "2000-08-26T03:36:16Z")
The Fisher. I remember this critter from a natural museum a few years ago. Looks like a large Fox. I think I recall it attacks and eats porcupines. It caught the porcupine by running around in circles until the porcupine got dizzy then it fliped the spiked rodent over on its back and attacked it’s belly. What an interesting animal 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/33 "2000-08-26T05:27:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Not bears? Nope! My favorite bears are kodiaks, but bears are not my favorite animals. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/34 "2000-08-26T06:46:04Z")
> [@](#): > > My favorite animal is the sloth because I can relate to it. I’m still sticking with my lemurs, but the mere fact that there’s an animal out there named after a deadly sin is pretty cool. I’m a little worried about the greater Argentian lust though 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Saint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@The\_Saint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Saint)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/35 "2000-08-26T08:25:56Z")
I like the Medusa. It’s like a jellyfish. They are so beautiful and graceful, I can watch them for hours. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/36 "2000-08-26T11:21:02Z")
Cats. Cats, Cats, Cats. Definitely Cats. Oh, yeah, and I like cats. Dogs, too. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/37 "2000-08-26T16:37:31Z")
Meerkats. I like the way they look when they stand up to guard the homestead–so serious that they are comical. Someone (Discovery channel?) did a special that I have watched several times, even though it always makes me cry, because several meerkats die in it. I just can’t resist. This is why Lion King is my favorite Disney movie–Timon is the best!! ---
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/38 "2000-08-27T03:27:50Z")
Tigers, of course. Or any type of cat. But I married a guy who’s allergic to them ☹ I like horses too. –tygre ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2000, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/39 "2000-08-27T06:42:46Z")
Could my favorite animal be one of the many species of lemur? It could be, but it is not. I have many favorites, but one of my favorites is the ringtail, _Bassariscus astutus_…a cryptic relative of the racoon that inhabits western North America. They are small, graceful, beautiful creatures. They are sometimes known as cacomistles or miner’s cats. If I lived in Utah or Colorado I would hope and pray every day to catch a glimpse of one. My favorite extinct animal is the Thylacosmilus, a giant marsupial from south america that had huge sabre-teeth, like the Smilodon. Very cool example of convergent evolution. A close second is the Glyptodon…imagine an armadillo the size of a Volkswagen, with inch-thick armor plating and a spiked tail. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalMuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695/40 "2000-08-28T01:54:45Z")
MY favorite animal is a horse. I own one and compete with her in horse shows. She’s really cute and sweet too. I love dogs too. I own a 12 yr old cocker spaniel who my family has owned for for about as long. She’s mainly lived with me for the bulk of my life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-animal/30695.md?page=3)