I'm pleased to see you say, "a" spirit animal. I've always felt an affinity with elephants, well before I researched spirit animals. After looking up others, I could also claim deer and hummingbirds, and if I kept looking, probably others. Here's a hawk tanka I wrote three years ago: https://medium.com/queen-s-children/gaiadynamic-divinity-3cfedb82d8d2