It doesn't really matter whether you believe in God or evolution, or any other kind of theory about life on Earth, it's always interesting to imagine how the conception of animals has happened. If we would think that God created them, how did it all look? He must've had some reference points because conceptualizing millions of different animals is sure hard work.
Let us picture the scenario. You're God creating animals. You've just conceived the world, and now you want some animals. So you start adding legs to bodies and heads to necks and tails to butts, but everything looks so...normal. So you decide to get creative. You make a bird talk, and you call it a parrot. You stick spikes on a rat and call it a hedgehog (literally a boar with a fence, ever thought about it?). And you throw a bunch of random stuff together and call it a duck-billed platypus, to add some funny animals in the mix. And slowly but surely, the animal kingdom was born.
