Orangutans, I have never seen a live one, but it is on the bucket list. Perhaps in part because they are the underdogs of the great apes, often overlooked in favour of the African apes, who are most closely related to us. Yet the may well be, the most emotionally intelligent and sensitive of us all.
i love Orangutans! Beautiful!
I like wolves - majestic creatures, falsely maligned over the millenia.
Hard finding good wolves pictures. Hard to distinguish the fake pictures from the real ones. Don't have to do that with elephants and such.
I'm going to go with Bison and Cedar wax wings. Bison because they are awesome, cedar wax wings because they visit my yard every migration and strip the seeds off my Chinese photinias.
Sorry I can’t pick a favorite, but we had a family of river otters on the lake this year. They are very social and fun loving critters. A little on the ornery side too.
Mine seems to change daily, or at least with every Attenborough documentary. Friday it was elephants, but today it's:
I had an uncle that lived in nowhere Nebraska who raised exotic animals while I was a child. He had peacocks in one of the barns. I'd always kind of step in the barn a little ways to try to gather some feathers but one of the peacocks would rustle and I'd run away scared for my life.
since you gave it an honorable mention.
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I love possums. They eat ticks, don't carry rabies, and are the only North American marsupial. Besides, I think they're kinda cute.
Looked them up on Duckduckgo and they look almost mid-evil in this picture.
I had one in my yard a year or so ago and, while a little on the mangey side, it was cute-ish and sort of played dead while I sat beside it. I guess sometimes they hiss and bare their teeth, but this one just waddled around, sat still when I was near, and eventually wandered into some bushes.
They are kind of cute and make great meme bait