What Kind of Animal Are You

Roll up like a hedgehog
Flap your wings and fling yourself into the air
Like a duck or a goose
Go ahead and let loose
Quack quack quack quack, honk

Sharpen your claws like a tiger
Wiggle and squirm
like a worm working hard in the dirt
Shake your fin and your tail
Like a humpback whale

What kind of animal are you?
What does that animal do?
Where is that animal found?
How does that animal sound?

Paddle around like a dugong
Kick the ground like a kiang
What’s a kiang? (I don’t know!)
We can find out though
Galah and galago
The world is full of critters
that you may not have considered

Stick out your tongue like an echidna
Go for a run like a vicuña
en los montañas de Peru

You’ll be a cutie
When you’re an agouti
Listening for the fruit
falling from the forest canopy

Chorus

Do a somersault like an otter
Or take a dive into the water
like an osprey catching fish
Or just hold really still
Like a wapiti will
When it happens to be trying
not to get noticed by a lion

Read a book and play the banjo
Take a look through a telescope
at a distant star
Paint a picture of
something you really love
Throw the ball in the basket
Think of a question and ask it

Chorus

© 2007 Amy Martin

Vocals – The Missoula Coyote Choir, Bill Harley
Drums – Allison Miller
Bass – Todd Sickafoose
Keys – Julie Wolf
Guitar – Adam Levy
Violin – Jenny Scheinman
Also featured – duck, humpback whale, lion, otter

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