Rudolpho, the resilient Reindeer- He never gives up hope of being chosen one year to pull Santa’s sleigh.
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Your photo made me think of an angler fish,Angela the angry angler fish
This extraordinary fish has bioluminescent bacteria in its lure to draw prey towards it’s mouth!
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Many, many years ago my ex-husband the girls and I went up to northern Kenya to photograph a newly opened boutique hotel. There was a scorpion at the bottom of the swimming pool and in my usual bolshy way I summoned my husband to retrieve it! i was homeschooling my girls at the time and put it into a ‘bug’ observation and sampling jar. Later that evening we could hear a scratching noise and upon inspection found the scorpion alive! It had dried out and was litterally reborn, we named him ‘dead’ and let him go a few kilometres from the lodge!
On a completely different ocasion I was collecting a wild aloe pulling it up from its bottom leaves and I was stung on the thumb of my right hand and couldn’t operate the mouse of my computer for a couple of weeks.
Hmmm- 
Mich-mm That was hardly a good way for the scorpion to thank you for saving its cousin, was it?
How do you stop a scorpion? 
Just set it to scorpi-off
Thomas, the tranquil Tapir
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Ricky the ring tailed lemur, I’ve never seen a lemur, only found in Madagascar to which I’ve never been
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Wow that’s impressive. I agree with Jeanne though about his cousin not playing fair after you saves him 
@axnr911 that joke made me chuckle.
Umberto the unimpressed Urial
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Your picture @axnr911 made me think of The **gerenuk also known as the giraffe gazelle , is a long-necked, medium-sized [antelope) found in parts of [East Afrika. Gwenyth the galliant gorgeous gerenuk.
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Amazing to me how similar looking animals can evolve on entirely different continents!
I just learned this, as @ManjiB said I learn sooooo much from this forum, a vicuna is related to the llama and alpaca and produces very fine wool!
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Omg I was left with X! Xantus’s hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii), previously known as the black-fronted hummingbird,
I love, love warthogs @mrs5k as a child we had a 'pet one that my uncle ‘rescued’ after it ran under the car being chased by a leopard! When I was about 13 it ran into my shins and bowled me over!
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Right I’m going with Z as the ‘rules’ of the game,which takes me to zebra,I’m going with the endangered Grevy zebra found in Northern
Kenya and Ethiopia.larger than the commmon zebra and with narrower stripes it’s a very beautiful Equid.
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Sticking to apes and my love of human evolution
Proconsul africanus or what is believed to be the missing-link
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