I had a young EFL student who wanted to decribe the fur clinging to my jumper and called them cat feathers

...deer and hummingbirds (the GOAT birds) in Virginia, some very cool fish species in both Australia and Sweden, a swimming platypus, and an echidna. I haven't seen nearly enough wildlife in Korea and this is bothering me now. Time to get off my arse and do some hiking or something

Honourable mentions include various kangaroos and wallabies, the big monitor lizards that used to hang around our yard driving Cindy (the labrador) wild, the rough-scaled snake that used to come and swim in the fish pond outside our kitchen window that I almost stepped on more than once...

And I almost hit the koala with the car! It was ambling across the road, not a care in the world. I actually got out of the car and watched it cross. It didn't give a toss. Mum had one living in her yard once, too

The moose was in Sweden when I was 13. We were out camping or hiking. He was a big bastard with some proper antlers

The death adder was on the narrow road just outside our house! It was hurrying across. Very rare to see but they're not hard to identify

The funnel web was in the rainforest with a friend's dad who worked at Lamington National Park. He spotted its burrow and enticed it out to say hello

What a great experience! I did see a platypus once but it was at a bit of a distance swimming around. I just took these things forgranted as a kid living in the country

Oh I'd love to see a rakali and bandicoot!

The skunk sighting was a whole family that had been displaced by a flood. Bedraggled baby skunks! I did not get sprayed

I really couldn't get enough of this guy. He is in peak condition and bound to dominate many other males and get the attention of the girls in this beautiful forest.