Ice cased Adelie penguins after a blizzard at Cape Denison / photograph by Frank Hurley

Well, initially, I thought penguin, because they're one of my top 3 favorite animals, they love to swim, they identify their mates by song, stay with them forever, the men stay at home with the babies, and they're extremely social! But then I also remembered that they live in ridiculously frigid climates, eat only fish - yuck!, and then regurgitate the fish to feed their young. So, I think I'll go with something tropical like a parrot. They may not be the brightest, but at least they can talk, and maybe I could belong to a pirate...that could be interesting...