I'm not sure that I'd want to be any animal - life is getting too hard for them. Even the big ones such as whales or elephants - deep down, I suppose I'd like to be an African Elephant - intelligent but big!
Going fr a bird, I'd stick to something plain and (again) mildly intelligent such as a raven ..
But why can't I be a plant - a good solid oak tree, for instance? Or an ent?
