I used to be obsessed with bottlenose dolphins and foxes. I actually went swimming with dolphins out at sea once. The Ecco the Dolphin series got me into them.
Speaking of video game dolphins, Buffy the Bottlenose Dolphin is one of the most imaginative, hilarious enemy designs I've ever seen. A bodybuilder dolphin dude who shoots energy beams from his pecs.... Bloody genius!! One of the coolest baddies in the entire Wario series, I reckon.
As a kid I really liked dangerous creatures. Wasps, stingrays, piranhas, crocodiles...
@wariofer It doesn't happen too often, but people do get capsized and killed/eaten by crocs in Australia. Thankfully I live
far away from croc country. They are truly awesome, but boy are they
terrifying!
I've always loved rabbits, though mostly fictional humanoid ones like Bugs Bunny, Buster Baxter, Quik/Nesquik Bunny, Hoppy from ClayFighter (below), etc.
My dad hunts foxes, ducks, rabbits, etc. and I used to tag along sometimes as a kid. I never killed anything, though. It used to gross me out whenever he had to skin and gut a rabbit or fox. He tried countless times to get me into it, but no, I've just never had the "killer instinct". Heheh. Still, I enjoyed our trips, and my dad respects all living things.