QOTW: What five animals would you like to be?
If you could spend an entire day as a different type of animal what five animals would you want to be? Your safety would not be guaranteed in your new animal form either.
Moe’s Picks
Bottlenose Dolphin
If I only had one choice for this list the Dolphin would be my choice. Dolphins are one of the few animals, other than humans, that seem to have fun for the sake of having fun. I’d love to experience the ability to swim and jump out of the water doing flips and whatnot. Dolphins are also highly intelligent which would make them fun to be for a day. Dolphins are also one of the only known animals, other than humans, to have sex for the pleasure of it.
I’d spend my day as a Dolphin swimming about, having fun, I’d try to find some humans to interact with, etc. I’d just have a lot of fun I think being a Dolphin for a day.
I have had many opportunities to see Dolphins in the wild. I actually took the photo above. My dad lives in Florida and the Dolphins love to chase our boat, playing in the wake, it’s always lots of fun and the dolphins seem to be having a blast too.
Bald Eagle
If I have the opportunity to be an animal then I pretty much have to choose something that can fly. There are a ton of birds out there to choose from, obviously. I went with the Bald Eagle. It’s a stunningly beautiful bird, has little to no predators, they are amazing hunters with superb eye site.
I’d spend as much time as an eagle as I could flying around, hunting and just soaring through the sky. Who wouldn’t want to spend the day flying around?
Spider Monkey
Kind of like the Dolphin, I’d like to spend a day as spider monkey because it looks like fun. Swing from tree to tree with absolutely amazing agility looks like a lot of fun. I also chose the spider monkey over some other monkeys, namely the Chimpanzee which almost made my list, because the Spider Monkey has a prehensile tail. It would be fun to have any sort of tail for a day but it would be really cool to have a tail which is like another limb. The picture above is a good example of what I am talking about.
Cheetah
I really wanted a big cat in my list and when I first thought up this question I thought for sure the Lion would be on the list. But when I sat down and thought about it there wasn’t anything really unique about the lion that made it really special. The Cheetah on the other hand can run incredibly fast, speeds up to seventy miles an hour have been clocked.
I’d spend my day hunting and relaxing knowing that I am the fastest land animal in the world. I can’t imagine what it would feel like being able to run at seventy miles an hour.
Blue Whale
Not only is the Blue Whale the biggest animal in the world, it’s believe to be the biggest animal the world has ever lived on earth. It would be incredibly cool just moving this gigantic bulk gracefully in the ocean. The Blue Whale only has one known predator, the Orca AKA the killer whale, so I would have little to worry about getting hunted and eaten during my day as a Blue Whale.
That’s my list folks. There were a few animals I considered but didn’t quite make the cut. They were the Great White Shark, Anaconda, King Cobra, Elephant, Chimpanzee, Crocodile, and the Lion.
Crawford’s Picks
Dolphin
I figured this one is a no brainer. I mean c’mon…a DOLPHIN! Granted I’ve never seen one in the wild but damn they look like they have fun. You wouldn’t have to worry about being preyed on either. Just swim, jump, play, find crazy stuff with sonar…all around awesome.
Ant
This sounds a bit strange but I’d really like to be an ant. I can’t imagine what the world would look like from the perspective of something so tiny. Life would be VERY full of peril but I’d have super strength and lots of buddies for backup. I’d probably go with you’re a-typical basic black garden ant…just so I could be in my own backyard.
Wolf Spider
The ultimate bad ass small creature…the spider. Sure I could choose to be some giant tarantula or the terrifying Black Widow but the garden variety Wolf Spider would be pretty bitching. This goes along with ant…I’d like to be in my own backyard. I’d be strong, people would be scared of me, I’d have a web…and all those amazing skills. Creepy…sure. Fun…hopefully, as long as I don’t get squashed.
Crow
Of course one of the choices would be a bird. And sure I could have chosen all kinds of birds…Hawk, Hummingbird, etc…but Crows have always been super cool to me. I dig their personality, they are big enough to be able to fly a long distance, and being a big black bird would be pretty awesome. To be able to fly…that’s what it’s all about. Plus I could air-bomb my neighbor’s car.
Siberian Tiger
A mother f-ing GIANT killer CAT would be absolutely incredible. I’d be the top of the food chain. I’d be intimidating. I’d be mysterious…rare…deadly. And above all I’d be several thousand pounds of killing machine. Of course I’d have to eat a person, no question!