Metazoa info

[Duke Guilmon]

Love this thread! My first reading obsession was on animals, their behavior and anything else known about them. Took me from late elementary to early adulthood. I've since moved on to the plant world. A little further removed from ourselves but on the other hand I can grow almost anything I like whereas I can not keep many animals. I can make the plants happy and create a sense of place with them. Animals are harder to satisfy and you can't just go collecting what you like.

What range of creature are you comfortable with including? Just chordates or are you also interested in insects, mollusks and so on? I suspect this isn't the place for members of the plank kingdom.

Some of the animals that have caught my fancy at one time or other: Komodo monitor lizards, Aye-Aye, Okapi, asian rhinos, sloth, marmoset, gibbons, mole rats, ant eaters, lily trotters, Keas the ground parrot - speaking of which I just saw such a funny video of a wild one in New Zealand. Let me see if I can find it.

http://youtu.be/ckakgzLh76M

Thank you sir. I will be doing animals of every phylum, like cnidarian, and sponges. All animals will be included/