I respect all the aminals on the planet. Even if I don't like an animal as much, I still don't hate them and wish they were extinct or something. That's very mean.
However, although I respect all animals, there are some animals that I respect a lot more than others. I shall seperate them into wild and domestic categories.
Wild:
Wolves. My favourite animal of all. I love wolves way before the internet came to existance and before I realized lots of furs (people who like anthropomorphic animals) love wolves as well. I love the sound of their howls, and they are way better parents than humans >
razz Runner-up:
Sharks. I love sharks almost as much as wolves. They have received quite a bad reputation unfortunately. Many believe them to be vicious man-eaters, but that is far from the truth. Sharks don't like the taste of us, and shark attacks occur because they mistake us for their preferred food, like seals. You have a better chance being killed by a dog or being struck by lightning than having been killed by a shark. Movies featuring killer sharks like
Jaws only makes people hate them even more, and that angers me.
Sharks are mysterious animals. Although there has been lots of research done on them in recent years, there's still lots of stuff about them that we don't know. Sharks are also endangered. Every year, thousands of sharks are killed by humans, yet only about a dozen people can be killed by sharks a year. What do you think is the more deadly? Sharks have very long gestation periods, and people are killing the females long before they can breed and repopulate. Dogfish, tiny sharks that are sometimes subsituted for tuna meat, have a 20 year(!) gestation period, and yet thousands of them are killed every year. People leave sharks to die when they cut off their fins for Sharkfin soup. Without fins, sharks can't swim and they'll either drown in the sea or get killed by other predators. It makes me angry just thinking about it. Australia's waters are littered with dead finless sharks.
If anything needs to be saved, it should be the shark, yet nobody (the general public I mean) wants to save them because they're not 'cute' like dolphins >
razz Aside from wolves and sharks, I also like crocodilians, wallabies, tigers (white bengal's my fave), eagles (bald's my fave), monitor lizards, roos and orcas a lot.
The rest of the animals I didn't mention and lumped in one big pile
biggrin Domestic:
Dogs: I love dogs. I love canines in general. My favourite breed is the German Shepherd Dog, or Alsatian.
Ferrets: Ferrets are adorable and playful and I've heard they're the number 3 most popular pet in the US
biggrin They're related to weasels and the rest of the family, and they're very frisky and love to sleep in hammocks
biggrin P.S. Sorry about my ranting. I tend to rant when talking about misunderstood animals.
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