iLove and iRomance: Share your stories on how you found and fell for... your favourite taxon(s)

[triceratops_65]

My first animal love was the domestic horse (I went through a farm phase when I was 2) and while I still love them my favorite taxa is Loxodonta africana the African elephant. I loved watching stuff like the Lion King and Dumbo and going to the zoo and that introduced me to the whole African savannah biota.

I also adore the Komodo dragon. I was in first grade and we had to do a project on an animal rather than just do the elephant I found this book in the school library about Komodo dragons and the rest is history.

Finally we’re kicking it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back(about 68-66MYA to be precise). When I was three and a half I went into the obligatory dinosaur phase and I never grew out. My favorite then and now has been Triceratops. For some reason I saw it as a dinosaur elephant I guess and to this day I love triceratops.

[broacher]

@triceratops_65

When I was three and a half I went into the obligatory dinosaur phase and I never grew out.

I don’t think anyone ever outgrows that phase completely. Plus, um – the still existing ones, birds, right?

Triceratops! My childhood fave, too. What really made that so was an old ‘early reader’ book titled, ‘The Enormous Egg’. Charming tale of a boy who has a chicken that lays… well - - I bet you can guess the rest. I definitely have always wished that this be made into a movie. (Um, after a cleanup of the 1956 sexism, etc, of course. But probably not the politics! Amazingly current.)