Tuesday, 2 May 2017

Stereotyping Animals [Part 2]

Eagles: Similar to Birds of Prey.
Earthworms: Unattractive but portrayed in a more positive light than other worms.
Elephants: Powerful, majestic, wise and with a great memory.
Ferrets: Clever and extremely playful. ✷
Flies: Often symbols of disorder, peskiness and insignificance.
Foxes: Tricky, pragmatic and confident. ✷
Frigatebirds and Skuas: Bigger, meaner and nastier versions of gulls, with qualities of thiervery and brutality. ✷
Frogs: Usually cheerful and friendly.
Geckos: Cute and likeable, but a little on the odd side.
Geese: Arrogant and irritable, but also graceful in flight.  ✷
Goats: Humble and quite stubborn but surprisingly aggressive. ✷
Gorilla: Intelligent but calm and more serious and immensely strong.
Guineafowl and Turkeys: Dignified but snobbish, unpleasant and uptight.
Gulls: Greedy and undignified but also brave.
Hare: Admired for their fast and cunning flights, independent and a little mysterious, even magical. ✷
Hedgehogs: Can be portrayed as 'prickly' and difficult to get close to.
Hens: Incurable gossips and not very bright.
Herons: Graceful, calm and patient. ✷
Hippos: Contented and gluttonous giants of the river. Obese, lazy and often rather stupid.
Horse: Elegant, noble, passionate and spirited. Sometimes proud and vain. ✷
Hyenas: Harmless jokester and laughs like a maniac for no reason. ✷
Kangaroos: Extroverted, good-natured characters, usually devoted mothers.
Koalas: Cute and friendly but rather lazy, or else irritable, gruff and not too bright.
Leeches: Like maggots and worms with the addition of bloodsucking, associated with putrid waters and the basest of natural instincts.
Lions: Brave, proud, noble, majestic and powerful. 'King of the Jungle', can be lazy and vain.
Llamas: Like Camels, slightly weirder and little more even-tempered.
Maggots: Disgusting, filthy, repulsive, and mindless larvae of flies. Symbols of rot, decay and corruption.
Magpies: Cunning thieves with a penchant for shiny objects. May be good or evil. ✷
Mice: Cuter and far more sympathetic than rats. Mice are more likely to be prey, often meek, humble, gentle and inoffensive.
Moles: Bright, technically minded, and a bit nerdy, often with a special talent for digging or engineering in general. ✷
Mongoose: Vaguely resembles a weasel, but is a cute and fearlessly heroic defender of the innocent. Although they look harmless, they take on terrifying enemies and win through a combinations of agility, with and boldness. ✷
Monkeys: Hyperactive, mischievous, skillful and curious.
Mosquitoes: Pesky, annoying, some even dangerous bloodsucking flies.


Horse artwork by Luke Best
Animal artwork by Laura Carlin
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