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If you were an animal what would you be and why?

Recently I was asked to be involved in the recruitment process at my place of work and had to, with the help of two of my team members, spend half an hour interviewing prospective job candidates. Now I've had a few interviews in my time and seem mostly to do quite well in that kind of situation, but this would be my first experience on the other side of the table. I remember having read interview guides before now that had warned me to be prepared for silly questions like 'If you were an animal what would you be and why?'. So with the simple intention of using this very question as an icebreaker (and partly becaused I'd enjoy using such a cliché) we decided I could kick off with it. We weren't hoping to get anything useful out of it at all, but in hindsight the animal question proved way more valuable than I could have ever expected, not because of any in depth analysis into the answers, such as lions as leaders or any crap like that, but purely on how the inte