My Santa combined my love of animals with my love of reddit, by adopting a narwhal from the World Wildlife Foundation in my name! When I first saw my gift was a donation to the WWF, I was like, "Oh that is very nice", but must admit I let out a squee when I saw I was the proud adoptive parent of a majestic narwhal!

I will proudly display my picture of my very own narwhal, oh kind redditor (who shall remain nameless, as the gift just included her real name)! Thank you so much!

Fun narwhal facts - Narwhals are very mysterious and elusive in nature. They only have two teeth, both in the upper jaw (I guess that long pokey thing is all they really need). They live primarily in the Northern Atlantic and travel in pods of 10-100 individuals and sometimes in much larger groups. They communicate with various sounds like squeals, trills and clicks. The males often cross tusks in a behavior known as ‘tusking’. This may be a form of dueling, friendly contact or cleaning the tooth.

They are considered a threatened species and are hunted for their tusk ivory (ivory is bad, yo), but are even more threatened by climate change.

Their diet consists of fish, shrimp, squid and while not mentioned in the literature, as we all know, bacon!