Animal cracker Animal cracker An animal cracker is a particular type of small cracker/cookie, baked in the shape of an animal, usually an animal either at a zoo or circus, such as an African lion, tiger, bear or elephant. The most common variety is light-colored and slightly sweet, but darker chocolate-flavored and colorful frosted varieties are also sold. Although animal crackers are made with a layered dough like crackers, they tend to be sweet in flavor, but still technically a cracker and not a cookie. Other animal-shaped crackers and cookies are popular, such as Teddy Grahams, Goldfish, Hello Panda and Koala's March.
Sooty barbthroat Sooty barbthroat The sooty barbthroat ("Threnetes niger") is a hummingbird species in the family Trochilidae. It is found in French Guiana and the northeastern part of the Amazon Basin. Its natural habitat is humid tropical lowland forest. The taxonomy and systematics of the sooty/pale-tailed barbthroat complex has caused much confusion. Some authors consider the sooty barbthroat to be a melanistic variant of the pale-tailed barbthroat ("T. leucurus"). As "T. niger" was described first, this scientific name is the valid name for both when they are considered conspecific. On the other hand, the SACC for example considers "T. niger" and "T.