What animal do you find the most interesting?

Skunks. Their defense mechanisms are pretty clever and effective, and their mental control must be pretty sophisticated to decide when and where to spray.

Probably elephants are second, because of their innate intelligence and long memories.

Humans.

Panda bears!

I love watching black bears, ducks/geese, and chimps. Add to this babies with their moms/dads and it’s even better.

Octopus. They are super smart.

All of them lol.
There’s more species of beetle than humans. The planet is teeming with life and variation never seen before!

Spiders. Imagine getting wrapped up in silk, then the big dommy spider mommy plunges its fangs into your defenceless body, and you get to savour the hours while your body gets turned into a protein soup for the spider to slurp on. So hot.

The crow. They are highly intelligent. Last year I found a crow under my tree in my backyard and it looked injured. It was panting and couldn’t fly. I found help and it was taken to a rescue. It unfortunately died the next day. Exactly a week later, at the exact same time I had found the crow, I walked to my backyard and found five crows standing at the spot I had found the crow. For a few weeks they made a bunch of noise whenever I went outside. I hope they didn’t think I killed their buddy. :(

Slime moulds. They are single cell organisms that will behave as multicell organisms under the right conditions. Number 1 candidate for alien life on earth.

Tardigrades!
They are virtually indestructible and can live almost anywhere. High and low temperatures, high radiation, vacuum of space. They are amazing.

^^ Thanks for the nightmares I’ll probably be having! Yuk!

@smudges They are awesome little critters. Images
You can find them in moss around your house. They are about the size of a mechanical pencil lead. 0.5mm
Dazzle your friends!

Saccorhytus coronarius. It was one ugly looking beast for sure. A 1.3 mm long animal the likely evolved in the late Precambrian to early Cambrian Eras 544 million years ago. It’s interesting because it’s possible that it gave rise to all living deuterostome animals (That’s us too). It was first discovered in 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccorhytus.

We’ve come a long baby!

@LuckyGuy Tardigades are all over the place. I’ve found them on outside plants in the PNW. You need to be persistent and look carefully through a high quality microscope. I used a glass tube with water pipet, glass glide with a coverslip. Searched the entire slide under low magnification. Patience is a must. Searched many slides before I saw one.

When they go dormant they are extremely difficult to recognize. I think that water stimulates them to wake up and start moving. The first time that I saw one I was so delighted. But after a while of looking at many more “Water Bears” (as some call them) the novelty wore off.

Tardigrade
shrimp mantis
octopus
Trump voter

^^^^I C what you did^^^^^

Humans are certainly interesting, but I think dogs have it all figured out. I’ve submitted my request to be reincarnated as a dog (with a good family) in the next life.