What animal do you most identify with, and why?
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I am decidedly ursine. There was a time when I would have said "dolphin," for a variety of reasons, but bear fits better now.
Posted by: Mike Timonin | Jul 02, 2012 at 02:20 PM
A moth. I'm always blundering into things.
Posted by: Coleslaw | Jul 02, 2012 at 03:02 PM
Human.
I know, it's kind of a stretch, since I resemble one in only the most superficial of ways, but it really is the species I feel the most kinship to.
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I want to give a more serious answer, but honestly I cannot think of any animal I identify with in the sense of thinking "I am a lot like a..." I know which animal I want to be like, though: the mimic octopus. Engage biological cloaking device!
Posted by: Froborr | Jul 02, 2012 at 03:38 PM
Like Froborr, I don't identify much with other species.
If I *had* to pick a spirit guide, though, I'd probably hope for a crow. I've always had an affinity with corvids of all sorts, and I tend to get unreasonably chipper when crow spirits, raven messengers, tengu, and other similar tricksters, shapeshifters, and psychopomps show up in my reading.
Posted by: hapax | Jul 02, 2012 at 03:52 PM
Snake, probably: often brightly colored, hopefully comfortable with transformation, fond of long naps in the sun, loses functionality when cold.
Posted by: Izzy | Jul 02, 2012 at 03:53 PM
The koala; they sleep 22 hours a day. So, in that sense, I guess the koala is more my ideal animal than the one I already identify with.
Posted by: GTW | Jul 03, 2012 at 01:45 AM
Penguin. I'm kind of short, stocky, awkward most of the time, but graceful in my element, cute, funny, look really good in formal wear, and don't do very well in the heat. :)
Posted by: Ellen Brand | Jul 03, 2012 at 01:31 PM
Cat.
I am, in fact, an anthropomorphic but psychologically feline cyborg who has been advancing Teh Kitteh Agenda for centuries.
What's that? I've just revealed my secret? Indeed I have, but by the time you react to it, it will be TOO LATE, PUNY HUMANS! MwahaHAHAHAHA! Ceiling Cat bless the glorious Feline Empire*!
*Also nown as Teh Glorrius Kitteh Empyurr and All Yur Cheezburgerz and Catnipsez and Uther Noms Iz Bilongz To Us, k? kthxbai
Posted by: Raj | Jul 15, 2012 at 05:09 PM