Updated, 7:04 a.m.

Good morning on this cloudy Tuesday.

It’s been a wild year.

While much of our attention was focused on a divisive presidential campaign, an explosion in Chelsea and powerful New York State politicians on trial, 2016 introduced us — lower on the news food-chain — to a pack of animals that managed to make a splash. Or a hiss, a squawk or a squeak.

This year, we learned a few things about local animals, and ourselves.

We learned that turtle walking is a real job — and that competition for it is fierce — after hundreds responded to a posting on Craigslist.

We learned that wild turkeys can be absolutely terrifying. Just ask a New Jersey postmaster.

And we learned that Representative Carolyn Maloney still really wants to bring a giant panda to New York.

Strange sightings abounded this year, including those of a humpback whale in the Hudson River, a pack of raccoons in Central Park and a number of sharks off Coney Island.