Chocolate Animals: Llamas, and Tigers and Bears. Oh My!

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Look around you, chocolate animals are everywhere! I'm not talking about animal crackers or molded candy. I'm talking about nature's dark chocolate colored creatures.

There might be one in your backyard or in a zoo near you.

But don't try to take a bite out of one, it might bite back!


Chocolate Bunnies

No, not the tasty treats you enjoy eating at Easter. These are the live ones that require lots of love and care.

Wouldn't it be great to have a beautiful bunny like this hopping around your house?

Breeds that produce chocolate colored bunnies...

  • Dutch
  • Dwarf Hotot
  • English Spot
  • Havana
  • Himalayan-markings like cat breed
  • Jersey Wooly
  • Polish
  • Rex-Mini and Standard
  • Tan-lively

Photo courtesy of Abbey Batchelder

Choose wisely, if you decide to get one!


Horses

Looking for a horse with a chocolate coat? Here are a few...
  • Rocky Mountain
  • Palomino-can have a dark chocolate coat
  • Liver Chestnut



Aquarium Fish

You can even purchase chocolate animals for your aquarium. How about...
  • Angelfish-offer lots of chocolate choices
  • Goldfish-Chocolate Oranda
  • Chocolate Cichlid
  • Chocolate Gourami-very difficult to keep
  • Spiny Catfish
  • Plecostumus

Petting and kissing not recommended!


Assorted Bittersweet Colored Pets

Not into bunnies or fish, how about one of these for a pet...
  • Guinea Pig
  • Fancy Rat
  • Chocolate Skunk-more popular than the black and white ones
  • African Pygmy Hedgehog
  • Chocolate Ferret
  • Nigerian Dwarf Goat

Not looking for a pet? There are plenty of interesting wild animals with chocolate coats or markings.


Australian Animals

These chocolate colored animals are native to Australia...
  • Chocolate Wattled Bat
  • Western Grey Kangaroo-can have a chocolate brown coat
  • Sydney Brown Trapdoor spiders
  • Chocolate Soldier-an unusual dark type of green grocer cicada
  • Spotted-Tail Quoll-can have a dark chocolate coat



African Animals

Going on safari? No? Then you'll have to try to catch a glimpse of these African animals at your local zoo...
Masai giraffee with chocolate spots
  • Masai Giraffe—has dark chocolate irregular shaped spots
  • Black Springbok
  • African Open-billed Stork
  • Walia Ibex-has a chocolate brown hide. It's endangered according to the 2008 Red List

Photo courtesy of Paul Mannix


More Chocolate Animals

Here's an odd assortment of nature's creatures bearing the bittersweet color...
white tiger with chocolate stripes
Photo courtesy of Two Roses

  • White Tiger-stripes can be chocolate colored
  • Chocolate-band Snail
  • Gopher Tortoise-
  • Chocolate Pipistrelle-bat
  • Desert Millipede
  • White-rumped Munia-finch
  • Chocolate Chip Sea Star or Chocolate Chip Starfish
  • Indian Porcupine
  • Some American Black Bears
  • Brushy-Tailed Ringtail Possum
  • Giant River Otter
  • American Minks
  • Fishing Cat-a serval that has chocolate-colored stripes
  • Baboons
  • Llamas
  • Domestic sheep
  • White crested Chocolate Polish Chicken
  • Cows
  • Boer goats




There's an amazing number of gorgeous chocolate animals on this planet. Probably more than you ever would have imagined. Keep one as a pet. Or just take a little time to enjoy their soul-satisfying chocolate beauty.




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