Game: Tell us what you think about the animal above...

[RTLfan]

Marmots, including this species, are very average animals to me. Cute enough but not massively so and while they don't have a horrible character it's not great either.

Red bellied lemur

 

[Orchid]

I don't think I've ever seen one before now, but I like them, the white patterns on their faces are interesting. They almost look a little bit feline to me somehow.

Banded woolly bear (Isabella tiger moth caterpillar)

 

[Hawthorn]

I really like them. . . I love most moth caterpillars (very fuzzy!), but these guys are some of the cutest! Another cool thing about them is that they're mostly okay to touch when compared to other fluffy caterpillars - unless you're allergic, you won't have a reaction, because they lack the "stinging" hairs that cause pain when handling other fuzzy caterpillars!

Wallaroo!

 

[Chidamari Sketch]

I need to research marsupials more in general @[email protected]; Only one that I bothered to put research on was the Tasmanian tiger.

Not my thing, but its endearing. It's a kinda small hunched little bugger with grey fur.

Hesperornis

 

[RTLfan]

Um ugly and scary...

Brown howler monkey

 

[Chevywolf30]

I'm not a huge fan of monkeys in general.



Bees

 

[Frozen Fennec]

Peaceful usually and I have no issue with them.

Moths

 

[Chevywolf30]

I love them, they're very pretty.



Monarch butterflies

 

[Neyo]

Elegant and pretty. I like their color patterns.

Fairy wasp

 

[Orchid]

I hadn't heard of them before, and I was surprised by just how incredibly teeny tiny they are. Apparently they're parasitoids and are helpful for biocontrol, which makes any bug a good bug in my book. (there's also a species of fairy wasp called Tinkerbella nana, named after Tinker Bell, which I thought was cute.)

Norwegian Forest cat

 

[Neyo]

Dude, that’s just a normal housecat someone threw in a forest. I still like it, though.

Costa’s hummingbird

 

[SpinyShell]

Very beautiful birds. I've seen a couple males around my house, and depending on the angle you'd see them, their throats were either blue or purple.

Mountain quail.

 

[Ricketchu]

I love quails in general, and I particularly like the cute little plume on the tops of these bird's heads!

Odontodactylus scyllarus (peacock mantis shrimp)

 

[RTLfan]

What can I say, awesome colours...better than a peacock. And the eyeballs are kool too.

Brown howler monkey

 

[Jyo]

too loud
too annoying
heard them in the zoo, they are so loud and annoying, don't like them

Meerkat

Spoiler: what they look like

 

[TRNatalie]

Really cute but also dang [email protected]$$ and ferocious in their own right. Timon has nothing on the real things. I remember watching Meerkat Manor when I was little… Flower!!!

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Spotted Hyena

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[RTLfan]

HORRIBLE HORRIBLE creatures. Can't think of anything good to say about them. I had a professor at uni who specialised in them and she used to say that they're nicer than they seem and I used to think that she was such a dubious person.

Maybeetle

 

[Chidamari Sketch]

A neat'l leetle beetle.

Arizonasaurus

 

[RTLfan]

Interesting. Like a more mobile and therefore scarier komodo dragon.

German wasp

 

[Neyo]

Interesting social dynamic compared to most other wasps, but other than that, it isn’t a standout wasp.

Secretary bird