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[Image] ANIMALS: Miscellaneous [Days of Heaven] A rabbit is in the wheat field; horses have snow on their backs as Bill and Abby try to sleep in a haystack; otters in river; a coyote is in the midnight tryst scene; a goat is in a campfire scene by the river; an elk in a field; pictures in a book of a tiger, caribou, elephant, and a huge snake. Additionally, Linda uses animal references: "He [Bill] was tired of nosin' around like a pig in the gutter;" "He [the Farmer] didn't really go around squawking about it [impending death]." [The Thin Red Line] A crocodile descends into duckweed-covered water in the very first shot of the film; a snake menaces American soldiers lying on their abdomens; a crocodile (possibly the same crocodile as in the opening shot) is tied up with ropes by the American soldiers and Queen beats it; fruitbats are shown when Witt holds Coombs in the river; an iguana gazes at Witt and Coombs in the river. [Badlands] 
An iguana on bare dirt is shown during Kit and Holly's flight.
Similarities in Malick's Films, Part I
Badlands