What web animal are you?

Peter Mabey · Post by **Peter Mabey** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:38 pm

BBS Lab UK has a test which assigns web users to one of eight types of animal - what are you?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/webbehaviour

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:02 pm

The poll options made me all excited that Raccoon might be an option, but alas not

I am a leopard, apparently, which given the description does seem to make sense.

Peter Mabey · Post by **Peter Mabey** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:38 am

Michael Wallace wrote:The poll options made me all excited that Raccoon might be an option, but alas not

I decided to add a couple of extra options for the benefit of people who read through the descriptions and didn't agree with any of them.

Apparently I'm an elk, which is more sociable than I expected to be rated.

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:51 am

I am a bear, I am a slow, socially inept idiot: the Forrest Gump of the Internet world.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 1:01 pm

I am an ostrich, the quickest type of animal that they categorised who loves socialising. Nailed.

Ryan Taylor · Post by **Ryan Taylor** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 3:40 pm

I am a web fox.

Fast-moving - Web Foxes like you are great at finding information quickly, just as real-world foxes are always ready to pounce on an opportunity.

Sociable - Foxes are highly social animals, maintaining complex relationships with the other members of their social group. When you browse the web you are also a social creature, often using social networks, or other sites whose content is created by its users, as sources of information.

Adaptable - Web Foxes are highly adaptable multitaskers, able to do several things at the same time – just like real-world foxes who can rapidly change their behaviour to suit their environments.

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:23 pm

I too am a web bear, so it seems. I will eat fish, insects, salmon and even scavenge in human refuse for new sources of food.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:28 pm

Michael Wallace wrote:The poll options made me all excited that Raccoon might be an option, but alas not

Probably for the best - imagine if it had been an option and you came up as something else. It would have been terrible.

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:31 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:The poll options made me all excited that Raccoon might be an option, but alas not
Probably for the best - imagine if it had been an option and you came up as something else. It would have been terrible.

I'd just have to learn what answers would have got me the raccoon outcome, and then modified my lifestyle accordingly.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:10 pm

BEAR. Rawr.

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:26 pm

I am a web elephant which is like a web fox except slow. I think the test got me spot on. I'm ever so friendly and kind-natured but oh so clumbersome uh-oh! I'd probably mortally injure you if I came in for a hug. Also I have a sticky-outy ear and am fond of my trunk.

David Roe · Post by **David Roe** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:53 pm

I'm a bear. Which I think would give me the edge, Dinos, in a hugging contest. Not that I'm offering.

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