Opossums: Somewhat raccoon-like in personality. ✷
Orangutans: They possess the strength and determination of the first and the agility, goofiness and trickster nature of the second.
Ostriches: Panicky and frightened.
Otter: Fun, joyous, playful, expert swimmers and acrobats. Laid-back and optimistic. ✷
Owls: Wise and mysterious.
Panda: Gentle, peaceful and cuddly, usually a bit lazy and often fat.
Peacocks: Vain, elegant, pompous.
Penguins: Inherently comical. Dignified, but clumsy in the water. Rather cheery and optimistic, even in harsh climes.
Pigs: Greedy and slovenly in a comical way, but often intelligent and good-natured.
Porcupines: Pragmatic and fearless, being well aware of how respected their defensive abilities are. May be either gentle and innocent, or prickly and irritable.
Rabbits: Sweet, innocent, and cuddly, but also trickster rabbits for the purposes of self-defence. ✷
Raccoons: Sneaky, clever, bold, and rather cute, but usually heroic or at least likeable ones. ✷
Ram: Always ready for a fight. Tough, perhaps surprisingly so, but perhaps a bit dim. Something like a smaller version of the bull. ✷
Rats: Traditionally nasty, cowardly, indecent, aggressive, greedy, licentious and cunning. Often associated with filth and disease. Always a tough survivor type, whether good or evil. ✷
Rhino: Powerful but somewhat dim. Incredibly dangerous when threatened, but prone to charging headlong with considering the consequences.
Roosters: Proud and loud. Pompous and arrogant.
Seals and Sea Lions: Cute and playful. Adorably clumsy on the land, but breathtakingly graceful in the water. ✷
Sharks: Hunger and menace personified. Cold and emotionless.
Sheep: Passive and gentle, but rather dimwitted. Prone to suffering from 'herd mentality' and blind, unquestioning obedience toward authority. Easily frightened and incapable of depending themselves.
Skunks: Gentle, innocent, and totally fearless, owing to their well-known natural defences.
Snails and Slugs: Very slow and slimy. Snails tend to be portrayed in a little more positive light than slugs are.
Snakes: Pure evil, almost always cunning, deceptive and manipulative. ✷
Songbirds: A symbol of vitality, freedom and joy.
Sparrows: Humble, cute and happy, agile and surprisingly brave.
Spider: Patient tricksters or venomous antagonists.
Squid: Weird and otherworldly, probably the closest thing on Earth to alien life.
Squirrel: Agile and graceful, but hyperactive and perhaps a bit crazy. Short attention span.
Storks: Frequently cast as a Delivery Stork. ✷
Swans: Beautiful, graceful and pure. A symbol of love and sometimes vain.
Tanuki: Sneaky, clever, bold and rather cute. Often thieves but usually heroic or at least likeable ones.
Tigers, Panthers, Jaguars and Leopards: Charismatic, exotic predators with an air of grace and power about their ever move. Awe-inspiring even as they crush you. Black panthers in particular tend to emphasise the big cats skill as stealth. Equally likely to be on the side of good or evil.
Toads: Ugly, cute and clumsy. Hidden beauty that reveals itself if you're being kind to it.
Turtles and Tortoises: Slow but wise, except if they are snapping turtles, in which case they're bad-tempered. Often very long-lived.
Walruses: Cute and contently fat, but comically dignified.Wasps: Aggressive, nervous, evil and highly prone to mass fury.
Weasels, Stoats, Martens and Polecats: Scheming, treacherous, cunning and malevolent villains, or else just plain out of their minds. ✷
Whales: Gentle, mysterious giants of the deep, slow-moving and very wise.
Wolves: Evil, murderous and voraciously hungry or powerful, majestic and beautiful.
Worms: Disgusting, filthy, repulsive and mindless. Symbols of rot, decay and corruption.
Zebras: They are tougher versions of the antelopes, brace and fiercely independent, although not always very strong fighters.
Animal artwork by Laura Carlin
Cheetah artwork by Kate Pugsley
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