My second favorite animal would still be a cat, in fact all my rankings of animals are dominatingly populated by felids. Not to say others have no interest to me, such an assertion is just plainly untrue, but the reality is O find nothing that holds a candle to them. That second favorite animal being the Bengal tiger, something terribly fierce, exceedingly well adjusted to its environment, and beautiful in design and structure. While still a distant second from Smilodon as a whole, let alone [i]Smilodon populator[/i], it is one of the great cats who I have the most bond with.