One of my favorite animals is the common house fly. I have had one visiting me for a few weeks every fall for several years. This year I attempted to feed the little guy. Smeared strawberry jam on the window. It's still there. The fly is hibernating somewhere. At least that's what I like to think..
My annual house fly visitor doesn't buzz at all. It could be that there's something wrong with my hearing. If not, something could be wrong with the fly. Worse is that there could be something wrong with the both of us. Or nothing is wrong at all.
A guy once told me how he found out that he had tinnitus. He heard a buzzing noise one summer day but he just thought it was wasps so he forgot about it. Next time he thought about the buzzing it wasn't a summer day but a winter day.
Even a mild tinnitus is to much of a bad thing, but I've grown accustomed to it.
Geckos!!
Cats are ok as long as I don't have to touch them... they're awesome to take pictures to.
I find I "like" a whole lot of animals, and I also feel the same about them as you would have a "favorite" person, like a friend or someone. Or how you might be more inclined towards, say, French or Spanish.
In that way, I like Wolves, any canine really, Horses, Lions, Tigers, Otters, Ferrets, and Kangaroos.
If my user name is any indication, I ADORE animals. Except insects (butterflies are alright to look at), I'm scared to death of insects. I especially love furry animals that are cuddly. I have two chinchillas that are so nice to hold. I also like rubbing my cat against my face (she doesn't seem to mind). It's probably a form of stimming.
I've never held a chinchilla but I've seen some and the fur is gorgeous...looks so soft!
Yes, chinchilla fur is considered the softest in the world and is thirty times softer than human hair. Chinchillas have the highest fur density of any land animal with more than 20,000 hairs per square cm. Whereas humans grow one hair from each follicle, a chinchilla has more than fifty hairs from a single follicle.
But, I love dogs best :-)
Caterpillars.
Hah! My kids have, in the past, set up a habitat for them, then collect a few (easy around here), then stare with anticipation of the expected metamorphous!
Border Collie for me. Great at rounding up the kids... and chasing away cats...
Penguins and Pandas.
I have an odd obsession with black and white animals. No idea why.
Ooohh, zebras are good too, and raccoons, and ring tailed lemurs, and badgers....
and hedgehogs (although they aren't black and white)