One of the interesting things, if you're asking someone about favorite animal, you're could understand the personality of that person.
My favorite animal is koala. Not only because of it's fluffiness, cuteness and laziness.
Mostly it's because of one book, author Leslie Rees, here is it:
I have read it in my childhood and totally fall in love to that little creature :)
I'm very active person, but after crazy travel or some mess, in my best and happier moments I look like this:
And like this, with Tim:
And what about yours totem animal? :) And why?