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.
Have you seen the documentary with John Cleese & lemurs? Good stuff. PBS seems to show it every couple months or so.
the weasel
matches my personality perfectly (see sig)
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.
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.
Hey - that was my 100th post.
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?
The throat-warbler mangrove.
Capybaras. The only mammal that was once classified as an aphibian by the Catholic Church.
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.
Not bears?
Mine would be felines (tigers, panthers, leopards, cheetahs, lions, housecats, etc.), wolves and dragons.
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 
Nope! My favorite bears are kodiaks, but bears are not my favorite animals.
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 
I like the Medusa. It’s like a jellyfish.
They are so beautiful and graceful, I can watch them for hours.
Cats. Cats, Cats, Cats. Definitely Cats. Oh, yeah, and I like cats.
Dogs, too.
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!!
Tigers, of course. Or any type of cat. But I married a guy who’s allergic to them 
I like horses too.
–tygre
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.
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.