Welcome back to another Open Book Blog Hop!

Today’s topic is: What is your favourite animal and why? Have you ever included it in one of your stories?

And remember to visit my fellow writers to see what they have come up with. You can find their works here!

I suspect this week’s Open Book Blog Hop is going to be a short and sweet one this week, but that’s okay. Animals aren’t a core feature of my writing at the moment, so no my favourite doesn’t appear in my work.

As for what my favourite is, well there are quite a few that I am rather fond of. Mostly predators now that I think about it. Tigers, lions, eagles, that sort of thing. I see a lot of red kites where I live and I love watching them hover and dive through the sky. Crocodiles and alligators are pretty awesome too. But for me, it’s sharks. Great whites, in particular. They fascinate me. Relatively unchanged evolutionarily over millions of yours. The basic form of sharks is what it was millennia ago. They’ve evolved to be the perfect, efficient hunting machine. Incredible senses, the ability to lose and regrow teeth, in-built defences and frankly the coolest theme tune in the animal kingdom. DUM DUM. DUM DUM…..

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