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 oystercatcher Sooty oystercatcher The sooty oystercatcher ("Haematopus fuliginosus") is a species of oystercatcher. It is a wading bird endemic to Australia and commonly found on its coastline. It prefers rocky coastlines, but will occasionally live in estuaries. All of its feathers are black. It has a red eye, eye ring and bill, and pink legs. John Gould described the sooty oystercatcher in 1845. Its species name is the Latin adjective "fuliginosus", "sooty". Two subspecies are recognised, the nominate from the coastline of southern Australia and subspecies "ophthalmicus" from northern Australia. The southern subspecies is larger and heavier than the northern. The