The 25 Happiest Animals In The World

Secret To Happiness: Ability to blow water out of nose; having no particular place to be.

Favorite Thing: Hurrying anyway.

Secret To Happiness: Seizing the day; seeing the silver lining; dressing up like a bear occasionally.

Favorite Thing: Literally everything.

Secret To Happiness: Looking adversity in the face and squawking contentedly at it.

Favorite Thing: Apartment-grade carpeting.

Secret To Happiness: An abiding awareness that life is a series of profound absurdities that are beyond his control and, more importantly, not his fault.

Favorite Thing: Mostly just seal stuff.

Secret To Happiness: A high-minded and esoteric sense of humor.

Favorite Thing: Cat food.

Secret To Happiness: Lives in a river.

Favorite Thing: Probably biting things.

Secret To Happiness: An unshakeable belief that the simple things in life require all of our attention all of the time.

Favorite Thing: Drooling.

Secret To Happiness: Advanced hopping/pouncing ability.

Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.

Secret To Happiness: Strong sense of self worth.

Favorite Thing: Looking smug.

Secret To Happiness: Hard work; simple, old-fashioned, American values.

Favorite Thing: Being a homeowner.

Secret To Happiness: Lives on the beach.

Favorite Thing: Jokes.

Secret To Happiness: Welcomes each new opportunity with open arms and a glad heart.

Favorite Thing: Ants, probably.

Secret To Happiness: Delight in companionship.

Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.

Secret To Happiness: Good humor, kindness, relentless optimism, and a long floppy nose-like facial appendage.

Favorite Thing: Calamari.

Secret To Happiness: Ability to see the fun side of everything; ability to rotate neck 270 degrees in either direction.

Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.

Secret To Happiness: Persistent, unmitigated enthusiasm without context.

Favorite Thing: Interrupting.

Secret To Happiness: Getting it. Just getting it.

Favorite Thing: Seeing the bigger picture.

Secret To Happiness: Wisdom, grace, refinement, and a philosophical temperament.

Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.

Secret To Happiness: An unabashed sense of wonder at the everyday marvels that the world has to offer.

Favorite Thing: Being a little owl.

Secret To Happiness: Taking life as it comes.

Favorite Thing: Being the second-most poisonous vertebrate on the planet.

Secret To Happiness: Seeing each new challenge as an opportunity.

Favorite Thing: Rolling in trash.

Secret To Happiness: Buoyancy, levity, and an enviable knack for discovering joy in the little things.

Favorite Thing: Actually being one of the little things.

Secret To Happiness: A fierce, unshakeable hopefulness paired with a realistic understanding of his place in the world.

Favorite Thing: Licking spaghetti off own face.

Secret To Happiness: Stopping to smell the roses; stopping to smell everything else.

Favorite Thing: Smelling things.

Secret To Happiness: Constant prancing.

Favorite Thing: Constant prancing.