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If someone was to compare your behaviour or body language to an animal, which animal would you like them to choose? What are some lesser heard animal-based adjectives?

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Animal Adjectives

These adjectives are related to…

• Accipitrine – hawks
• Anserine – geese
• Aquiline – eagles
• Batrachian – frogs + toads
• Bubaline – buffaloes
• Cancrine – crabs
• Crocodilian – crocodiles
• Cuculine – cuckoos
• Cygnine – swans
• Didine – dodos
• Fringilline – finches
• Giraffine – giraffes
• Hippocampine – sea horses
• Hircine – goats
• Hystricine – porcupines
• Leporine – hares

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• Lutrine – otters
• Otarine – seals
• Pardine – leopards
• Pavonine – peacocks
• Picine – woodpeckers
• Psittacine – parrots
• Rangiferine – reindeer and caribou
• Ranine – frogs
• Scyphozoan – jellyfish
• Strigine – owls
• Struthionine – ostriches
• Tolypeutine – armadillos
• Vulpine – foxes
• Zebrine – zebras

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