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Animal Totems Photo Gallery

Which Creatures Are Your Personal Totems?

By , About.com Guide

This photo gallery is a showplace of the various creatures that serve as animal totems offering us spiritual guidance. To best understand the lessons conveyed by animals that show up in our lives involves us learning their instinctual behaviors and natural habitats. Is the animal noctournal? Does it live in the desert or the tropics? Is the animal solitary or live in a pack? What type of diet do they eat? Answers to these questions and similar questions will give you clues as to what message is being offered.

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photo of mouse in wooded areaMouse TotemSquirrel TotemCamelCricket Totem
gorillaGorillaScorpion TotemSnake TotemWolf
Goose TotemPenguin TotemPolar BearFrog

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