Are there any wild animals that you have came across that stand out in some way that made you want to name them?

We often used to see a beautiful bobcat at our old house, which was somewhat wooded. The area was attractive to both coyotes and bobcats, with lots of small animals to hunt (squirrels, wood rats, bunnies, moles, and gophers. My husband frequently posted the photos on FB. A friend suggested we name…

There’s a pine tree I have named ‘Miss Piggy’ because hunters use it on a regular basis to hang wild boar carcasses and skins. OK that’s no animal, even though it still has furry bits here and there.

Here is Giorgio , who lived in our garden and loved to have his photo taken. His favorite treat as a juvenile was the purple flowers of the Ruellia that grows profusely about the garden so I would watch him zip from bloom to bloom and strip them every morning. At a certain point he left for parts unk…

Oh, and how could I forget Gilda (named for the incomparable Gilda Radner because of her beautiful eyes)! [IMG_2442]

Ever since this guy showed up alone a little over 3 years ago he’s been a regular almost every day since. He’s already been by this morning for a peanut. I’ve been calling him Buddy since he’s very friendly and has a tendency to just hang out in our bottlebrush while I’m outside doing yardwork or my…

Meet Owen https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/296903 they are all Owen to me

Oh I have SO MANY: We call all boy coyotes Jonxalonx and all girl coyotes Xeromphalina. I don’t know why, it just happened and I sometimes refer to them by those names in normal conversation and people think I’m insane :sweat_smile: There was a family of crows that lived in front of our last house…

Oh and all jumping spiders are Portia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)

I had a little red bellied snake neighbor who lived in one of my garden beds named Mushroom!

We don’t usually name things but there’s a feral peacock in the area that we hear constantly. We’ve named him Kevin.

Wild animals with names you gave them

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Wild animals with names you gave them

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