Favorite animal

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>cassowaries
>under-represented
W E W

I've always had quite a soft spot for Theodosia species, but obviously there are far too many animals to ever have a favourite

>>2274004
Doesn't Japan love rhino beetles?

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>>2274005
Yeah they're obsessed with them, Germany also has a lot of beetle breeders for some reason. Theodosia aren't rhino beetles, however.

>>2274005
For Germany too, those beetles are the ultimate symbol of masculinity.

>>2273948
Cassowaries are Noble creatures and you should invite them into your home

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>>2273948
>>2273948
Honey badger

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>>2273948
Moths. Particularly those of the Sphingidae family. People seem to give Saturniidae all the attention, but Sphingidae have far more interesting anatomy and are just cuter in general.

Pic related. It's a Pachysphinx modesta

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I can't help but just love these fuckers

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Weasels

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Viverrids

>>2274082
>>2274109
>mammal
>underrepresented

no. especially not fucking weasels. everyone knows them

>>2274164
>What's your favorite animal ever? Like an underrepresented animal that you don't see on tons of products?
I'm pretty sure Viverrids fit this description.

>>2274176
well I don't know what it is, but it's a cute mammal that looks kinda cat-like so it can't be underrepresented ever ever ever ever ever

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>>2274194
Vivverids are a family of animal unrelated to cats that inhabit parts of Africa, Asia and Madagascar. Species include civets, genets, linsangs (pictured), striped mongooses and fossas. A more popular species is the binturong but even then it's sorta uncommon to hear of.

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Viverrids range from catlike to foxlike to bearlike... Favourite example is this foxy-looking fanaloka.

The reason they are catlike is because of convergent evolution... I find it interesting that any small carnivorous mammal becomes more catlike or doglike depending on how terrestrial or arboreal they are.

>>2273948
>>2274004
>>2274164
So basically;
>no mammals that even remotely look like a feline, canine or rodent
>no flightless birds (because all of them have been popularized because "woah! a BIRD that... DOESN'T fly!")
>no mammals that have a semblance of hooves on their feet because they either look like a horse, goat, deer, rhino, elephant or hipo all of which are known by everyone
>no birds that fly because there are a billion species of them that all look a like and are seen everywhere
>no snakes for the same reason
>no remotely generic looking fish for the same reason, also everyone knows about sharks
>no primates because everyone knows about monkeys and gorillas they're in zoos and on tv
>no cetaceans because everyone knows what a dolphin and a whale is they're in zoos and on tv
>no animals like starfish, crabs, octopus, or squid because they are known and some eaten
So, we have... insects, worms, deep sea fish, jellyfish and sponges. maybe 1 in a thousand actually care about any of those. Much less have them as their favorite.

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>>2273948
Melibe leonina
They're just so cute and they smell nice.

>>2274231
Well cassowaries have literal roadsigns made in their image, they're not remotely unknown. Weasels are incredibly well-known, though the obscure tropical shit posted earlier certainly qualifies as underrepresented. Plenty of the things you listed contain countless underappreciated species, but bluntly listing generic, highly-unspecified things like "I like starfish" is retarded, just say a nice species nobody knows about. The way you list those animals in that manner suggests you're one of the aforementioned retards with no knowledge of animals.

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anything dwarf

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You guys can keep your special snowflake animals you've never interacted with. My doggos will always be my favorites.

>>2273948
Are you that platypus guy? If so, did you just make this thread because you realized no one was replying to your thread. So you started a different one under a topic where platypuses would be relevant, in the hopes that there would be someone else on /an/ whom shared your interest in platypuses?

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>>2274293
>"I don't know any different animals, I never visit zoos/museums, and I never leave my sheltered suburban American bubble to explore the world"
>still comes to /an/ regardless

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>>2273948
Quokka

Japan prefers capybaras but quokkas are much cuter.

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Marine Iguanas are the best creature on the Galapagos islands, fuck those tortoises.

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Red pandas. Took 7th gen to add a real red panda Pokemon that wasn't a shitty teddy bear named Spinda. I would believe (or at least hope) most people on /an/ are aware of them but most avg people aren't as aware.

>>2273948
Generally speaking I love extinct island fauna mostly birds and reptiles that are huge and or flightless

Kauai Mole Ducks are rad desu as are giant night geckos.

Maybe because I'm weird but underground completely dark growing environments interest me as emergency food sources.
>>2274061
Yeah I want to bred them for size and maybe work around eating them. They seem like viable candidates for indoor food raising and breeding. If only the sized up faster and were bigger.

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Tiger Quoll, anyone?

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Awesome parrot-kiwi that had an extensive range and unique breeding behaviors. Their mating sites can still be found in the New Zealand Highlands. So critically endangered that all living individuals have been named or at least a number. 126 left on the planet.

I fucking hate bringing them up because it always goes back to fucking video. >>HURRR DAT THE BURD THAT HUMPED THAT LADS EAD?! HUHUHUH BRUV!!!!

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>>2274082
I'm pretty partial to Wolverines they're just so interesting.

>>2275351

NZ is a good country to live in if you want to kill all mammals in mass numbers, because they should all fuck off and stop shitting up the bird population... minus maybe the bats.

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>>2275366
hey fuck you, I'll eat what birds I like. Natives are overrated.

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Bears of any kind
They are best beast

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Oryxes. The best antelope

>>2274231
>maybe 1 in a thousand actually care about any of those. Much less have them as their favorite.

exactly, they're underrespresented

>>2274458
the average person loves the shit out of red pandas because they are cute mammals. where do you live?

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>>2273948
Fuck those mean scrotum-necked bastards. Pangolins are best

>>2274993
Is this the one that tore up Chris Pontius' hand on Wild Boyz?

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>>2273948
Not really under under represented. Mantas as well. The aquarium that kept these with mantas had the mantas breed and grow in tank, so I'm hopeful for these guys.

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Anteaters are the best

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Whatever this thing is

>>2276817
benis :DDD

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Kangaroos

>>2276635
i love you fellow pangolin bro

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Raccoons they are so cute and smart!

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>>2274993
I love quolls!! Mine is the Jackal.

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So, underrepresented or just in general?
Cockatoo is my favorite, but I feel like African grey parrot is less popular in popculture etc.

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Not under represented but just generally incorrectly represented.

Mainly everything is either a Sea Turtle if it swims or slow as shit like a very large Tortoise. Semi aquatics are neither of those

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>>2273948
Yeti crabs are the shit