Animal Decoder

Arguably the eagle is a little overused. Besides those mentioned, it is also symbolic of: Austria, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Indonesia and Kazakhstan, as well as a number of Arab countries, believed to stem from its use as the symbol of Saladin: UAE, Iraq, Libya and Yemen as well as Egypt. Many Kurdish groups also use it as a symbol for the same reason (Saladin was in fact of Kurdish, not Arabic descent). And of course traditionally the eagle has been employed in the heraldry of many nations and noble houses in Europe, such as Prussia (and later the German Empire), the French Empires and the Holy Roman Empire. These uses all stem from its use by the Roman legions. Of course the type of eagle varies, for example, where America obviously uses the bald eagle, Mexico uses the golden eagle and Kazakhstan uses the steppe eagle.

well its on both the flags so that shoulda made it a bit more obvious

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They would make lovely pets, they are adorable. But I am for letting nature be nature, so I wouldn't get one as a pet (or my house would be filled with all sort of wildlife! )

But I have hedgehog buddies. A few summers now, if I have my backdoor open after dusk, they wander in and see if there is anything of interest for them. And on quite a few occasions They'd have a (really loud !) snore underneath my couch.

I dont life in a rural area at all, my house is 5,50m wide smushed in between other houses. My garden is a bit longer than wide, so I guess it is 5,5x8 meters. But more green and trees than the enitre neighbourhood, a mini forest. And under my window I have a pile of stuff from pruning (mainly light stuff like, buddleja/butterfly bush and hibiscus and laurel, wisteria, some hedera etc) and for years I think hedgehogs are hybernating there

Any animal can be made a pet... whether you should do so or not is another question. I once saw a documentary of a couple that had a not, sure, buffalo or bizon as a pet... it was walking around in their living room... (could walk out too) and in other cases a hippo, that was raised after it had lost its mother and stayed with the humans.

People keep the strangest animals for various reasons, some more selfish than others.

There are also quite a lot of cases where animals adopt the humans. like a deer that allways comes visiting, but does keep going back to its fellow deer. well tons of examples.

I actually have a hedgehog that visits me... If I leave the backdoor open after dawn, it comes walking in looking for spiders I guess, or if my cats were sloppy eaters and dropped some food. he has taken a nap here a few times... luckily each time he leaves before I go to bed (was close several times, but I didnt have to wait for him for too long)

Yep, Babe is a pig.

Actually young tuatara can move very fast over short distances.

Agreed - robins are associated with Christmas in the UK and often frequent gardens in winter :)

There are generally robins year round here in the US as well, but a greater number shows up in the spring, hence the saying.

yea though their might be people out there that háve them as pet. Describing them as pets does not seem right. Some people have monkeys as pets.. but a question starting what pet... would be weird to have monkey as an answer...

May I suggest what insecteater.

You dont have hedgehogs in Aussie??? I thought you guys brung em over to us in NZ. But I'm probably wrong. XD Just about to look it up......

Newts are certainly salamanders. Not only are all species in the order Caudata (Urodela) generally referred to as salamanders, but all newts are in specifically in the family Salamandridae.