article_snippet: For women, meanwhile, the results were a bit more timid - with miniature pigs, cats, ponies, donkeys and chinchillas making up the top five.
article_snippet: Overall, when gender is not taken into account, the nation’s favourite animals are dogs, tigers, elephants, cats and dolphins.
article_snippet: When male choices were compared to female choices, however, there was a surprising battle of the sexes on what the most popular animals were.
article_snippet: For women, compared to men, it was miniature pigs at the top of the list, followed by cats and ponies.
article_snippet: Men were more likely to prefer 'heroic', 'aggressive' or 'creepy' animals, while women preferred 'cute', 'beautiful' and 'exotic' species.
article_snippet: For women, when women choices were compared to men, women favourite animals were miniature pigs (shown), followed by cats, ponies, donkeys and chinchillas .
article_snippet: ‘The only mammal in the top 20 most uniquely male animals is the Narwhal, while every animal in the corresponding female list apart from the penguin and butterfly is mammal.
article_snippet: As for why miniature pigs score so highly on female uniqueness, this isn’t because men are particularly likely to dislike men, but because women are more likely to be drawn towards cute animals,' Will Dahlgreen in an article for YouGov continued. '
article_snippet: This chart shows the full scores for the 'uniquely male' animals, which were the ones that scored especially high with men but not high with women .
article_snippet: Conversely, This chart shows those animals favoured by women, but not liked so much by men.
highlights_snippet: For both genders the most popular animals were dogs and tigers .
  
highlights_snippet: But when both genders were correlated, the results were surprising .
  
highlights_snippet: Women were in favour of miniature pigs, cats, ponies and donkeys .