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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIf you could be any animal for a day, which animal would you pick? I would like to be a dolphin. How about you?
umroman
(54 posts)They always look like theyre having fun.
debm55
(56,247 posts)viva la
(4,508 posts)Climbing trees, jumping branch to branch... and most of all, driving indoor pets INSANE.
debm55
(56,247 posts)viva la
(4,508 posts)Kitty is sitting on my desk right now, gazing out at the trees.
debm55
(56,247 posts)rampartd
(3,921 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,206 posts)I would love to experience their world and their intelligence.
"So long and thanks for all the fish." (Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)
debm55
(56,247 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,307 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)Ocelot II
(129,272 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)gab13by13
(31,340 posts)I apologize. When I was young was talking to an old guy about what he would like to come back as in reincarnation, that was the answer he gave me.
debm55
(56,247 posts)SheltieLover
(76,993 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)Mister Ed
(6,832 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)Aristus
(71,715 posts)Just a peaceful day of eating greens, laying around under the trees, playing with the baby gorillas, etc.
I wish I was a gorilla...
debm55
(56,247 posts)Ocelot II
(129,272 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)mucifer
(25,542 posts)I want to fly and they are pretty much vegan. Also, they are very social . I wish I was more social. They hang out in big packs and are not aggressive to each other and are so damn beautiful! I love it when I see them in the forest preserve near my home. It's a joyful rare event!
debm55
(56,247 posts)DBoon
(24,766 posts)Intelligent, adaptable, and they get to hang out in all the cool places
debm55
(56,247 posts)DBoon
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debm55
(56,247 posts)karin_sj
(1,329 posts)Soaring high above the ocean and land. My first thought was an eagle, but then I remembered that they have to hunt, kill and eat small mammals to survive, so forget that!
debm55
(56,247 posts)Hey Joe
(433 posts)In a Central American forest.
debm55
(56,247 posts)3catwoman3
(28,658 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,467 posts)I choose hippopotamus. I have a long list of people I want to stomp
debm55
(56,247 posts)MiHale
(12,648 posts)Id find a really cold place and go into a decades long cryptobiosis till this crap is over.
That would be a tardigrades day.
debm55
(56,247 posts)crap
debm55
(56,247 posts)justaprogressive
(6,332 posts)
through a golden yellow sea to the roaring music of breakers in
strange syncopated harmony, and you break the surface and leap high
in the sweet warm air, dipping and turning with your great flippers,
hanging and laughing in glad to-be-alive greeting, gliding in on your
belly to a surfboarding landing on your own private swell.
You watch huge leaping brown creatures cavorting in a golden sea,
seal-like whales with noble brows and mighty eight-fingered hands on
the ends of their flipper-like arms.
"Statistically speaking by the rules of the game our species should not
have evolved into the galactic stage happy hotshots we are as we sing
this song-dive-dance into the sea of space. Airbreathing water creatures
evolve big brain big body complexity think noble thoughts but usually
don't develop external-world-manipulation-technology... natural kings of
the sea living pure mind and flesh but doing no galactic deeds remaining
eternally stable primary stage civilization in ignorant bliss."
You come bubbling up for air from the golden depths near low rocky cliffs;
you shoot up, into the intoxicating world of the gassy atmosphere hyper-
ventilating in rapture, grab the cliff edge with the hands of your flipperarms,
and vault up onto a grassy plain where your mates are
already waiting.
"Our species kept its hands when we returned to the sea for the land remained
our opiumdenboudoir-playground have you ever tried copulating swimming
around with no hands forget it."
From "Songs From The Stars" by Norman Spinrad
If you do or ever had an imagination, : it's recommended reading.
debm55
(56,247 posts)fantistic.
Jilly_in_VA
(13,852 posts)Maybe a jaguar, deep in the Amazon, or a cheetah on a reserve somewhere.
debm55
(56,247 posts)JMCKUSICK
(5,186 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)Goonch
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debm55
(56,247 posts)pandr32
(13,821 posts)I would love to spend a day full of baby goat antics. They seem to have the most fun of all the petting zoos and hobby farm animals. They climb to the top of everything, run, jump, skip, buck, and twist with glee. It would be quite a day!
debm55
(56,247 posts)Endlessmike56
(126 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)malthaussen
(18,426 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)Grim Chieftain
(1,287 posts)I have had four in my life and loved each one of them dearly.
Aside from that, I'd be an American bald eagle so I could fly over he who cannot be mentioned in The Lounge, and drop brown blessings on his hatless head.
debm55
(56,247 posts)Frise and one as an American Bald Eagle to drop a load on you know who.
Deep State Witch
(12,596 posts)Specifically, a pampered house cat that gets fed twice a day, litter box scooped, and snuggled.
debm55
(56,247 posts)DinahMoeHum
(23,388 posts)lazing away on a chaise lounge.
debm55
(56,247 posts)relaxing day.
DinahMoeHum
(23,388 posts)n/t
debm55
(56,247 posts)Niagara
(11,580 posts)a Panthera Pardus also known as a Leopard.
Or
a Panthera Onca also known as a Jaguar.
Both have similar but different rosette pattern coats. Both will take advantage of water and trees. Both can have melanistic coats if at least one parent is melanistic. unfortunately, both are poached by humans for their coats.
The leopard isn't an apex predator with a long tail and slender body with a rosette patterned coat. Has special muscles in the neck and shoulders that allows it to drag prey and climb trees.

The jaquar is an apex predator with a shorter tail with a shorter and stockier body. Has a rosette pattern with tannish and black spots inside the rosettes. This beauty doesn't need to climb trees being the top cat in the wild but absolutely can and will loaf around in trees and use trees to their full advantage.

**Roar** 😺
debm55
(56,247 posts)fun. ROAR
Niagara
(11,580 posts)Tim S
(55 posts)My first thought was some kind of non-carnivorous bird because the idea of gliding for miles sounds wonderful.
But then I remembered my spirit animal the Tree Sloth. Id love to spend most of my life, hanging hammock-like under the top canopy of the rain forest. Food? Just eat the lichen that grows on me and once a week, climb down to go to the bathroom. Then climb back up and start all over again. Ahhhhh
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debm55
(56,247 posts)Rebl2
(17,436 posts)I love how they flit around and defend their territory. They are beautiful little jewels!
debm55
(56,247 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,749 posts)probably a river otter - they always seem to be having a good time.
debm55
(56,247 posts)biophile
(1,220 posts)debm55
(56,247 posts)MIButterfly
(2,158 posts)and I could sit around eating bamboo all day and nobody would expect me to do anything except sit there and look pretty.
debm55
(56,247 posts)Enjoy you day as a Panda , playing and eating bamboo. Love you
ProfessorGAC
(75,888 posts)I'll go with hawk.
Soaring for 30 or 40 seconds at a time without flapping my wings seems pretty cool.
debm55
(56,247 posts)chowmama
(1,011 posts)Smart, tough, and good with their hands. However, a crow would also be a choice.
debm55
(56,247 posts)raccoon. Enjoy your two days.