Asian Animals Bracket

People always tend to think of Africa when it comes to coolest wildlife. I think it would be foolish to sleep on Asia when it comes to cool animals though. The land of the tiger has their own amazing creatures to behold. Here we look at some of those amazing creatures from the vast Asian continent. I really hope you enjoy our bracket for the coolest Asian Animal.

Much like our African Animal Bracket, this is just picking the coolest animal. Enjoy our brackets for the coolest Asian animal. Take a look at the blank bracket first.

Some of these names are harder and some of them are a little harder to read. The brackets are separated by themed regions once again. Animals with spots are in the top left corner of the bracket with the Giant Panda as the #1 seed. Those circles around the pandas eyes were counted as a spot. Asian elephants were the #1 seed in the bottom left bracket for the region labeled heavy hitters. With this region all of the animals are big, strong, and powerful. Top right we have striped animals with the #1 seed of a tiger. The bottom right is graceful animals. The number 1 seed in that bracket is the Orangutan. Separating the regions this way gave us a good bracket breakdown and allowed for the separation of those four easily identified animals. Some of the striped and spotted animals are stretches, but those being the brackets made for an interesting contrast.

You will notice that this bracket is far more specific than the African Animals bracket and therefore has longer names written in. Indian Rhino instead of just Rhino. Arabian Ostrich instead of just plain ostrich, although it is just the same thing in that case. One of the hardest to read is brown long eared bat, which is the 11 seed in the grace regional. To more difficult ones are the golden spotted monitor (13 seed spot regional) and the golden snub nose monkey (10 seed spot regional). Other than that you should be good here. If you have a question of what the animal is, I suggest a google image search. Some of these animals are not well known, but they sure are magnificent.

Now, let's look at Eli's bracket...

Komodo Dragon was the ultimate champion for Eli's bracket. The thing that won Eli over was the komodo dragon feeding we saw a few years ago. Noland Jr. also had a class pet (Bearded Dragon) and that helped both of the boys love lizards. They often try catching lizards in the back yard. Good thing they don't have a Komodo Dragon to catch though. Those things are so dang powerful and deadly. Another point in the dragons favor is that is the closest thing we have on this planet to a living breathing dinosaur.

The biggest upset in this bracket came when Tree Kangaroo beat the mighty Tiger. I thought Tiger would be in a toss up matchup with Komodo Dragon in the Final Four. I never expected Tiger to lose to the Tree Kangaroo. We have never seen a Tree Kangaroo in person, but they look super cool. Now, I got to locate one in this country for the boys to see.

Aside from the Tree Kangaroo, his final 4 was rounded out by Snow Leopard and Sloth Bear. He picked Sloth Bear because that is what Baloo the Bear is. Snow Leopard was the other pick, just because they look cool and he enjoyed saying it. They are super cool. Eli kept picking the big predators too other than that Tree Kangaroo.

Let's check in on the brother Eli adores, with Noland Jr.'s bracket...

Noland's bracket looks far different than Eli. He had an entirely different Final Four. The toughest match-up for him was taking Chinese Pangolin over the Komodo Dragon. He really enjoys pangolins though and really wants to see one. Every knew the tiger would win overall though as that has been his favorite animal forever. Even at 3 months he used to always get a big smile when seeing a tiger and hearing the word tiger. He absolutely loves them. The Final Four was rounded out by the Draco Lizard and the Sun Bear. He picked the Draco because of its unique gliding creature power (as the Wild Kratts would say). The Kratt brothers even did an episode on the Draco Lizard. While the Sun Bear is just super cool and has an orange stripe across its chest. Noland Jr. thought that stripe was the coolest.

There were a few upsets here, most specifically the bears over the rhinos. I did not see those upsets coming. The Mugger Crocodile advancing two rounds, including past the Asian Elephant, was also a big upset. Most surprising, was his selection of the Asian Water Monitor over the clouded leopard. It is super awesome, but this boy is usually such a big cat fan that I thought the lizard stood no chance against the mighty leopard. Also surprising was the Indian Star Tortoise knocking off the Giant Panda. I thought the Panda would make it deeper on his bracket.

Now their mother....

Jenna went chalk as is typical for her. She enjoys the fan favorites when it comes to animals. All four #1 seeds made it into her final four, with Asian Elephant taking the crown. She did it in her own special style too with the notes and all. As you can see her tough choice was Orangutan over Komodo Dragon. Both animals performing pretty well across the brackets, but more on that later.

Jenna had two question marks on her bracket. I'd assume that would happen on some if everyone were to fill these out. She had a hard time picking between the Golden Snub Nose Monkey and the Gibbon, so she didn't pick one. There was no preference one way or the other and she just decided not to pick. The same thing happened with Bactrian Camel and Mugger Crocodile. She wanted to move on from those animals because she wasn't picking them more than one round anyway. Jenna was working on another project during this and wanted to do the bracket quick. This is the only bracket of hers with question marks. Jenna is much more excited for our next bracket, which she labeled her favorite so far...

Time for me....

I really enjoyed this bracket. It was one of my favorites to complete. African Animals is always my default answer when I am asked which continent has the coolest animals. However, this bracket made me realize that Asia is a strong contender. This continent has some really incredible creatures. I actually think I prefer it after doing the research. You forget how many different climates are in Asia. That makes for such an incredible diversity of wildlife. It was hard to limit this bracket to 64 choices.

We did limit it though and it was fun to do. A species of rhino ended up winning my bracket, just like in Africa. I ended up selecting the Indian Rhino in the finals. They have an Indian Rhino at the Tampa Zoo and it is my favorite exhibit at the whole zoo. I just love the armor that these guys have. Such an incredibly neat creature. I have never seen a Sumatran Rhino in person, but it was almost my pick to win it all. Now, I have to find where we can see one of those.

My final four was rounded out by Komodo Dragon, Tree Kangaroo, and Snow Leopard. Komodo Dragon is my second favorite animal. Rhinos are first. This bracket was incredibly predictable for my family based on that fact. Although I was fascinated by the Tree Kangaroo. My second hardest selection was Tree Kangaroo over Red Panda. Those little guys are so dang cool. The Tree Kangaroo just narrowly beat it out. Snow Leopards are super neat as well. That is one of the coolest animals that I have seen in person and I want to see one again. They are simply brilliant creatures. All of these animals are actually. I was impressed with the wildlife from Asia.

Here are our top 5 animals across all the brackets.
5. Indian Rhino (11 spots)
T-3. Draco Lizard/ Asian Elephant (12 spots)
2. Snow Leopard (14 spots)
T-1. Komodo Dragon/ Tiger (17 spots)

For the first time, we have a tie at the top. A tie of ferocious predators. The Komodo Dragon and the Tiger reign supreme. If you haven't seen a feeding with either of these guys, we highly recommend it. Pictures are of feeding with these two animals.

This was a massive tiger eating at the Catty Shack Ranch in Jacksonville, FL

This was the Komodo Dragon sensing its food at the Jacksonville Zoo in Jacksonville, FL. Super cool!!!

What did you think of our picks?
What is your favorite animal from Asia?
Got any picks on your bracket?
Anything you want us to do a bracket of?
Feel free to leave any feedback as always.
In 5 days we will have our animated bear bracket. That bracket was inspired by our Baloo loving Eli.

Until next time,

- Noland