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

My son has a pigeon he named Meryl. She has a dark body with a completely white head. We just like her and think she’s pretty. We’ve been seeing her for years!

not an animal but whenever i first saw this observation my immediate thought was ghost berries!!! turns out they are called snake eyes and that’s just as cool or better lol :joy: however i think mine wins only bc i saw this like 3-4 days before halloween :ghost:

For all one particularly hard winter, we had a pine marten that came on our window sill at night to eat the fat we put out for the birds. Even with the light on in the room, it seemed completely oblivious of our presence, even when we were just centimetres from the window itself. We named him (?) Gi…

When radio tracking rails we of course band them so each bird has a unique numeric code. But it’s helpful to have a nickname to use for ease of reference. For example, a bird in the northernmost territory of the study site might start as “North Bird” but that is then shortened to Norbert.

I occasionally see a beautiful large male Ocellated lizard, Timon lepidus. I know the stone he lives under and have named him: Don Timón, El de Antequera, (There is a wine and juice brand Don Simón and El the Antequera was the given name to the Spanish king Fernando I de Aragón after he had reconque…

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]

Wild animals with names you gave them

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terrybb August 5, 2023, 1:13pm 9

We had a family of Gray Foxes that hung around our back yard quite often, and the male was particularly “tame”. He would often lay in the shade in the yard during the hot summer. We named him ‘Pops’.

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Wild animals with names you gave them

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