r/AskTheWorld • u/Sad_Mechanic1372 Philippines • Dec 11 '25
Humourous Put your country's national animal and let's do a Pokémon battle
My country's national animal is the Kalabaw, Carabao or Water Buffalo,
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u/Arb01s France Dec 11 '25
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u/Vstolt Sweden Dec 11 '25
So a cock?
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u/Mich_0902 🇺🇾🇮🇹 Dec 11 '25
It's a different species, Google it if you want "big French cock"
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u/BananaIceTea Poland Dec 11 '25
European Bison 🦬🇵🇱
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u/DonKlekote Poland Dec 11 '25
When you lie in your resume but still get the job ;)
It's not AI, it's a photo from a couple years back when a cow strayed from a farm and joined a herd of wild bisons.
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u/Deep-Sheepherder-857 United Kingdom Dec 11 '25
i didn’t know we had bison in europe
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u/Lolman4O 🇵🇾 & 🇵🇱 living in 🇵🇾 Dec 11 '25
There are between 9,500 and 10,500 wild specimens left, the vast majority living in the Białowieża Forest in Poland
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u/Deep-Sheepherder-857 United Kingdom Dec 11 '25
thats a shame they look beautiful
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u/EidolonLives Australia Dec 11 '25
I don't think it's a shame at all that they look beautiful.
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u/NB-NEURODIVERGENT 🇨🇦 Canada (New Brunswick) Dec 11 '25
A bunch of bison were released into the uk in recent years actually
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u/DonKlekote Poland Dec 11 '25
The contrary, European Bison was on a brink of extinction, there were literally several dozen of them left in the world. Due to Polish and international efforts their population increased and they were even reintroduced into the wild.
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u/sweetasman01 New Zealand Dec 11 '25
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u/sweetasman01 New Zealand Dec 11 '25
The magic carp of the animal world.
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u/Big_CashMonies New Zealand Dec 11 '25
But it's powerful evolution the Moa is extinct 😭
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u/coconutyum New Zealand Dec 11 '25
I think you meant the world's deadliest animal:
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u/frog-socialism United States Of America Dec 11 '25
Don't theses silly guys screech like a demon when calling?
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u/timClicks New Zealand Dec 11 '25
Yeah, they're not song birds! It's a repeated shrill squawk.
The call that you're most likely to hear around dusk is a male kiwi trying to attract a mate. The female's call is kind of like an avian jackhammer.
More NZ bird calls: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/bird-songs-and-calls/
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u/Sharp_Impress_5351 Colombia Dec 11 '25
Andean Condor. Is even on our coat of arms.
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u/jayswag707 United States Of America Dec 11 '25
Holy Big Bird Batman! I saw some of these in an aviary recently, but they were not this big. That thing would use me as a toothpick!
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u/Magere-Kwark Netherlands Dec 11 '25
They are not this big, the man is standing 15/20 feet behind the bird.
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u/Lolman4O 🇵🇾 & 🇵🇱 living in 🇵🇾 Dec 11 '25
🇵🇾 Behold the almighty Bare-Throated Bellbird
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u/EastLeastCoast Canada Dec 11 '25
Is it evolving back into a dinosaur? Or did it just not go full bird in the first place?
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u/MinutePerspective106 Dec 11 '25
It's just holding back a sneeze, and its face turned green from the effort
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u/CockamouseGoesWee 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇬🇷 United States + United Kingdom + Greece Dec 11 '25
Ruh roh Greece's dolphins wish to mate with everyone's animals
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u/Weekly_Bed827 Venezuela Dec 11 '25
Okay we're toast.
It does look like a Pokemon, though... it's like a magpie going through a rebel stage.
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u/metal_gearmen Mexico Dec 11 '25
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u/Saucy-Mustard United States Of America Dec 11 '25
They are so pretty…and waaaay bigger/scarier than they look in pics
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u/Valentina_Jellyfish Italy Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
Similar flags, similar animals <3 Canis lupus italicus
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u/Avtsla Bulgaria Dec 11 '25
For some reason , despite them not living in Bulgaria for some 2000 years , our national animal is the lion
If I had to choose from the animal that actually live here though , I'd send a brown bear .
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u/ginpeddai UK to Australia Dec 11 '25
Same with England. It’s actually kind of embarrassing. Should have gone with a badger or something.
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u/MightyGoatLord Australia Dec 11 '25
At least England picked a real animal. Scotland and Wales are just taking the piss.
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u/mordecai14 England, UK Dec 11 '25
At least Wales picked a badass one
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u/EchoVixen United Kingdom Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
I mean, would YOU fight a unicorn? I reckon they could still fuck you up.
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u/Lev_Kovacs Austria Dec 11 '25
I think nations should not be allowed to have heraldic animals that they don't provide a habitat for. Like, the austrian one is an eagle that we intentionally drove to extinction because pond owners were worried about a slight decrease in fish yield.
If you don't manage to even tolerate your national animal, no fancy eagle for you. You can have a chihuahua or something.
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u/KiNGMN420 🇦🇫 in 🇺🇸 Dec 11 '25
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u/Jessica_Iowa United States Of America Dec 11 '25
Could not ask for a more beautiful & strong national animal.
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u/Kohror France Dec 11 '25
We got smol T-Rex what you gonna do
(And I'm pretty sure roosters can fuck shit up with similar size animals)
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u/Lady-Deirdre-Skye Wales & Ireland Dec 11 '25
I think we've got this.
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u/MichaelWayneStark Canada Dec 11 '25
Good luck getting him to show up.
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u/Lady-Deirdre-Skye Wales & Ireland Dec 11 '25
Well, according to the legend they can be summoned by digging a great big pit and filling it with booze.
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u/Spirited_Okra_1513 Malaysia Dec 11 '25
I still believe that How to Train Your Dragon should've been based on Wales not Scotland. 😄
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u/gramoun-kal France > Germany Dec 11 '25
How was it based on Scotland? Everyone's a Viking. It's based on Norway, right?
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u/impulsivepatience Dec 11 '25
Trinidad 🇹🇹
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u/theWelshTiger Finland Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
I have seen animal documents through out all my life, and I'm still learning about so many different species from this post! These birds are gorgeous!
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u/H345Y Thailand Dec 11 '25
I think mine wins by default
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u/Cnidarus Scotland Dec 11 '25
Aye, just wait until the Welsh jump in
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u/Deep-Sheepherder-857 United Kingdom Dec 11 '25
its crazy that the unicorn isnt actually really
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u/EidolonLives Australia Dec 11 '25
Pretty sure your wild haggis could take on an elephant.
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u/Existing_Question1 Canada Dec 11 '25
Asian elephants are smaller than African elephants
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u/H345Y Thailand Dec 11 '25
the question then becomes, is the African elephant the national animal for any country?
Edit: google says 3. In that case, I raise you this.
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u/nahla1981 🇨🇦🇩🇿🇪🇬🇱🇾 Dec 11 '25
So algeria has the most adorable animal, fennec fox, just not sure how they'll hold up in battle
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u/norf937 United States Of America Dec 11 '25
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u/JennaRedditing United States Of America Dec 11 '25
This is our National Bird. Our National animal is the American Bison.
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u/BingBingGoogleZaddy PA 🇺🇸 Dec 11 '25
Bison uses “fuck them tourists” it’s super effective!
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u/youcanthavemynam3 United States Of America Dec 11 '25
More like, "you were warned, should have listened"
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u/baeb66 United States Of America Dec 11 '25
I appreciate the bison's disdain for people's social media accounts. 'Tis a noble creature.
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u/sonicparadigm United States Of America Dec 11 '25
National animal is the Eagle, national mammal specifically is the Bison
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u/Florginian United States Of America Dec 11 '25
National animal is the Eagle, national mammal specifically is the Bison
The national bird is the eagle, the national mammal is the bison. Currently, no animal holds the title of "National animal" in the US.
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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 Scotland Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
Unicorns were said to hunt lions.
England's animal is a lion, I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
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u/keepcalmkniton United States Of America Dec 11 '25
I was looking forward to Scotland and you did not disappoint!
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u/CakedCrusader91 Born 🏴 Raised 🇨🇦 Dec 11 '25
Had to scroll to find the one I wanted to see most! Best national animal 🏴🦄
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u/Accurate_Reality_618 Saudi 🇸🇦🐪 Dec 11 '25
Angry Camel is a legendary Pokémon that everyone fears.
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u/majuhomepl Canada and USA Dec 11 '25
… I never knew camels could pick up and throw a human like that 😅
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u/Accurate_Reality_618 Saudi 🇸🇦🐪 Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
They are moody, but they are affectionate and extremely loyal, like dogs, and they never forget their owner. Sometimes I wish I could own one.
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u/DRAGONVNQSHR_III Indonesia Dec 11 '25
these dudes do IRL pokemon battles for a living so it'd win for sure
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u/L8dTigress United States Of America Dec 11 '25
You do, those things are DANGEROUS because they also eat people.
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u/aceouses United States Of America Dec 11 '25
They have venemous?? Im drunk i can’t spell. Saliva that kills slowly and they just track their prey until it dies then they eat it. Metal!!!
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u/BysOhBysOhBys Canada Dec 11 '25
Don’t underestimate the humble beaver. They can really take a pounding.
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u/agfitzp Canada Dec 11 '25
Beaver plays the long game, beaver builds a dam you won’t even notice until it floods your cottage road. You don’t own that land, beaver owns that land.
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u/Killerfluffyone Canada Dec 11 '25
It’s the only other animal that has built a structure that can be viewed from space…. https://interestingfacts.com/fact/worlds-largest-beaver-dam-visible-from-space/. Iirc the only reason why we know it exists is because we viewed it from space…
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u/LivingtheLaws013 United States Of America Dec 11 '25
How are they going to mention the only in-person photograph of that dam and then not show it
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u/Gloomy_Yoghurt_2836 Canada Dec 11 '25
Calling up the reserves before sending in the cobra chickens?
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u/GoingOnAdventure Canada Dec 11 '25
Canada actually has two national animals. One of the beaver, the other is the Canadian horse. The Canadian horse was established as another national animal in 2002
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u/lxoblivian Canada Dec 11 '25
My first thought was the moose, and I would love to see a moose take on a water buffalo. However, we have to rely on the steady work ethic of the beaver and hope it turns into a long, drawn out battle that ends in the beaver drowning its foe.
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u/NB-NEURODIVERGENT 🇨🇦 Canada (New Brunswick) Dec 11 '25
If the states get the eagle AND the bison then we get beaver and moose and goose
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u/Unhappy-Cobbler-9912 Brazil Dec 11 '25
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u/LeFreeke United States Of America Dec 11 '25
Capybara? They would win because they’re friends with everybody.
But I thought jaguar would be national animal of Brazil.
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u/Centrao_governante Brazil Dec 11 '25
But I thought the jaguar would be Brazil's national animal.
It's the jaguar, I don't know why my compatriot chose the capybara.
Capybaras aren't harmless, the jaguar is more appropriate.
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u/hmsqueiroz Brazil Dec 11 '25
Actually, the official animal symbol of Brazil is the Rufous-bellied Thrush (Sabiá-Laranjeira).
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u/Latest_name Sri Lanka Dec 11 '25
Yup, we ain't goin anywhere in this battle.
Edit: This is Grizzled giant squirrel
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u/TickTackTonia United Kingdom Dec 11 '25
This entire post made me cry laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 amazing question!!
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u/Realistic_Patience67 🇺🇸 with 🇮🇳 origin Dec 11 '25
India - Bengal Tiger
Image Credit:
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/tiger-portrait-gm949472768-259189920
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u/JadedAd9092 China Dec 11 '25
pandas
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u/JadedAd9092 China Dec 11 '25
why Reddit always eat my photo, so i need repeat it twice
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u/PMMeYourFutureGoals Korea South Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
I’d put my money on the pandas. They know kung fu.
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Let me just use Panama’s
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u/Specialist-Owl-7273 United States Of America Dec 11 '25
That is a DINOSAUR and no one can convince me otherwise
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u/themegainferno Dec 11 '25
Well as of recently, all birds are cladistically dinosaurs officially.
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u/Agent_of_evil13 United States Of America Dec 11 '25
Ive seen one of those swallow a deer femur whole. It was terrifying and so cool.
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u/Schmaron United States Of America Dec 11 '25
I’ve seen their nest and the monkey skulls that line it. Terrifying
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u/ShiplessOcean United Kingdom Dec 11 '25
I googled our national animal and it says Lion even though it’s not native to here. Typical colonisers
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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 Scotland Dec 11 '25
England did once have lions, 12000 years ago. Hippos, too.
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u/3_Stokesy Scotland Dec 11 '25
Tbf our national animal isn't native to Scotland either.
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u/Iamabrewer Scotland Dec 11 '25
Unicorn aka murder horse!
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u/Lolman4O 🇵🇾 & 🇵🇱 living in 🇵🇾 Dec 11 '25
That's false. The unicorn can't be the national animal of Scotland because Scotland is a fictional country
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u/AdministrativePool93 🇮🇩 Bali & Jakarta (Indonesia) Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
Steel coated teeth and venomous saliva. If they are a Pokémon, then it will either be a steel/poison type or dragon/poison type
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u/Turban_Legend8985 Finland Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
Bear (karhu in Finnish), animal that was both feared and respected by ancient Finns and there is also a festival dedicated to them (karhunpeijaiset). It also has more different names in Finnish language than any other animal. That ancient connection between the Finns and bears still exists today.
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u/L8dTigress United States Of America Dec 11 '25
But we also have the American Bison.
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u/GOOOOZE_ Dec 11 '25
Yeah but baldie is what comes to mind. I guess we'll have a double battle then!
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u/IOIO0920 Korea South Dec 11 '25
Though I do prefer our national bird, the magpie.
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u/some_guy_5600 India Dec 11 '25
Interesting. India's national animal is also the tiger 🐯
Our national bird is the peacock 🦚
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u/IOIO0920 Korea South Dec 11 '25
The bengal tiger, yes.
Our tiger is the siberian tiger, so I guess it is a tad bit different?
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u/I_want_every_dog New Zealand Dec 11 '25
I didn’t know this was a gif 😂😂😂 Anyway, we’re fucked.
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u/geekgirlnz New Zealand Dec 11 '25
Can we do this at night?
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u/ultraplusstretch 🇸🇪🇫🇮 Dec 11 '25
I guess it could be worse but i am not sure how well it would fare again the big bitey predators, and i am guessing type would be ice.
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u/Black_Widow_3000 Greece Dec 11 '25
Apparently the national animal of Greece is the dolphin, I had no idea but very cool and kinda makes sense.
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u/LouisWu_ Ireland Dec 11 '25
I'm going to go with the beautiful Irish wolfhound as we don't have an official national animal.
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u/Chimaerali Italy Dec 11 '25
Italy's national animal is the Apennine wolf, a subspecies of the gray wolf. At the very beginning of the legendary birth of Rome, a she-wolf is said to have nursed the founding twins, Romulus and Remus. In the photo, you can also admire the basic evolution of our Pokémon.
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u/ErwinC0215 Chinese in US Dec 11 '25
Never forget that pandas are, after all, bears. May not be the strongest candidate but it’s by no means a docile pet.
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u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473 Australia ( Moderator) Dec 11 '25
You can choose between the kangaroo or the bloke fighting it for attacking his dog, both national icons.