Don’t you wish we could know what an animal was thinking?

It’s a shame we don’t know, but some animals give off a vibe with the way they look and act.

Sometimes it would be nice to know what animals think, like when judging us.

“You know how there’s a scientific theory about how gorillas are our most common ancestors?” Dani Ruhl (’26) said. “I feel like a gorilla would judge us the most because they would be ashamed of us for how we’ve adapted.”

Our DNA and a gorilla’s are extremely similar. They might mistake us for one of them and be disappointed when we don’t do the things they do.

“I would probably say a tiger,” Brady Tebow (’25) said. “The tiger is really scary and I feel like if he saw me in the forest roaming around, he’d be like ‘Oh, look at that human over there, he looks so tiny and small. I could easily eat him up.’”

Like a tiger, lions also give off a vibe that they would always be looking down on people.

“I feel like a lion would judge us so much because they have such a big ego,” Haley Tebow (’25) said.

Vise Versa, what animal do we think would judge us the least? Here’s some opinions.

“Definitely a raccoon because they take our food, so they have no reason to judge us because they eat what we eat,” Ruhl said. “Taking our leftovers.”

Maybe raccoons would be grateful for the things they get from us.

“I feel like a fish wouldn’t judge us because they’re really tiny, and I’m bigger than a fish so they’ll be like ‘Oh, I’m scared of him, because he’s really big,’” Brady Tebow said.

Smaller animals would be least likely to judge us because they are scared, so he is going off the fear factor.

“I think a hedgehog is misunderstood, like they’re prickly but they’re not gonna hurt me,” Haley Tebow said.

Hedgehogs give off the vibe that they would be friends with everybody.

Whether it be our own pets, animals in the wild or animals in the zoo, it would be interesting to know what is going on in their mind.