# An animal for Julia?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** marketing, branding, animals\
**Created:** [October 8, 2017, 10:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322 "2017-10-08T10:20:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 5

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**Author:** ![NaOH](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/naoh/32/5632_2.png) [@NaOH](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/NaOH)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/82 "2018-06-21T21:11:06Z")

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How about the lisp alien, riding the llvm dragon, with a viking helmet and a julia flag in one of its hands? 😃

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**Author:** ![Tero\_Frondelius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tero_frondelius/32/7629_2.png) [@Tero\_Frondelius](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tero_Frondelius)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/83 "2018-06-22T05:47:41Z")

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Someone with artistic skills should made a draft. I like this idea so much.

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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Bowles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joshua_bowles/32/4515_2.png) [@Joshua\_Bowles](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Joshua_Bowles)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/86 "2018-06-23T01:22:30Z")

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That’s pretty awesome.

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**Author:** ![mics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@mics](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mics)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/87 "2018-10-23T18:50:47Z")

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What about koala ? It is rather friendly creature and would be nice in the logo. I am not sure is it in use in th oreilly books or elsewhere.

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**Author:** ![jonjilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@jonjilla](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jonjilla)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/88 "2018-10-23T20:15:46Z")

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Cerberus the 3 headed dog. One head for each Julia dot…

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**Author:** ![yukiusa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@yukiusa](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yukiusa)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/89 "2019-03-12T17:22:35Z")

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It is good idea that Julia has any symbolic logo. Python has the cute snake logo but Julia does not.

Julia would get more attendance for that. I like butterfly one. I think it can stands for Julia’s feature, because Julia is fast and light language 🦋

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**Author:** ![mantzaris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mantzaris/32/3852_2.png) [@mantzaris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mantzaris)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/90 "2019-06-26T15:54:05Z")

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I remember there was a twitter account with this avatar back in Julia 0.43, but haven’t seen it for a while

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**Author:** ![ninjaaron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ninjaaron/32/6392_2.png) [@ninjaaron](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ninjaaron)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/91 "2019-06-26T16:39:29Z")

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> [@StefanKarpinski](#):
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> Once upon a time, if you googled “Julia” the top hit was “Julia Roberts”, so there’s always hope.

Hard to think of a better summary of Julia’s stated goals:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/c/d/cd01798d198c20bc977e2fb4c7d6aaad297be807.jpeg)  
c.f. [https://youtu.be/\_nK6LEeEPFU?t=36s](https://youtu.be/_nK6LEeEPFU?t=36s)

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**Author:** ![Roger-luo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/roger-luo/32/3399_2.png) [@Roger-luo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Roger-luo)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 7:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/92 "2019-07-15T07:21:09Z")

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I was making a logo for JuliaCN, then I suddenly notice that we can have dragon as the animal for Julia, this is because dragon do play (Julia) balls, if you don’t believe me, check the following picture! and you can also google it lol!

 ![julia-cn-logo](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/b/9b6e92cafcc3f116a6203be81732e92b2fc56777.png)

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**Author:** ![miguelraz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/miguelraz/32/631_2.png) [@miguelraz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/miguelraz)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/93 "2021-05-06T16:01:18Z")

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Hey all, a bit late to the party, but I came up with this cute walkie-talkie.

They’re called **Dispatch** , and they were born in this [blog post](https://miguelraz.github.io/blog/dispatch/).

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/7/4/74f8f8b141e82200999c4f6da48d853b90061153.png)

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**Author:** ![TheCedarPrince](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/thecedarprince/32/17323_2.png) [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/94 "2021-05-06T17:08:20Z")

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I wanna plushie of it! 😱

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**Author:** ![lmiq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lmiq/32/18314_2.png) [@lmiq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lmiq)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/95 "2021-05-06T17:18:16Z")

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Some birds of paradise come with the colors almost for free (ceyx erithaca):

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/6/3/63d136ac06672a4317c793a9e7d830926df55364.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![alejandromerchan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/alejandromerchan/32/10500_2.png) [@alejandromerchan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alejandromerchan)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/96 "2021-05-06T17:21:07Z")

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As a biologist I feel the need to correct the physicist, sorry. That’s not a bird of paradise, that’s a kingfisher.

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**Author:** ![lmiq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lmiq/32/18314_2.png) [@lmiq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lmiq)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/97 "2021-05-06T17:22:21Z")

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I’m a Chemist! 😠 😠 😠 🤣 🤣

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**Author:** ![alejandromerchan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/alejandromerchan/32/10500_2.png) [@alejandromerchan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alejandromerchan)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/98 "2021-05-06T17:23:13Z")

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Oh, I guess I misidentified your species then! Sorry!!! 😂

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**Author:** ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/99 "2021-05-06T17:26:09Z")

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Nobody is perfect 🤭

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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/100 "2021-05-06T18:05:22Z")

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> [@alejandromerchan](#):
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> that’s a kingfisher.

Not the kingfisher that I know (Portuguese “guarda-rios”) but yes, it looks like a kingfisher (Geophysicist here)

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**Author:** ![Wei\_Yang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/wei_yang/32/23951_2.png) [@Wei\_Yang](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Wei_Yang)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/101 "2021-05-06T19:55:11Z")

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Why restrict ourselves to _ **one animal** _ ?

We can have 4 butterflies of color (red, green, blue and purple) , like the ones in the following picture.  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/d/a/da609979fb1aae93e1d8a6f9c30242387ecc449b.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Mason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mason/32/2423_2.png) [@Mason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mason)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/102 "2021-05-06T20:25:19Z")

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Or, we could just not adopt a mascot at all and stick with our current, clean nice visual branding. 🙂

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**Author:** ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-animal-for-julia/6322/103 "2021-05-06T20:46:58Z")

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Dolphins are not only fast, but also human friendly, very smart, quick learners, problem-solvers, with a highly developed language, demonstrating empathy, innovation, teaching skills, joy and playfulness.

Here comes Julia:

 ![Julia_dolphin_playing](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/7/d/7d86f145bd4c68c6e88571bbe9eeb664f35e6e5e.png)  
_(adapted from [VectorStock.com](http://VectorStock.com))_

_ **NB** :_  
_She can also swim as fast as a C-Shark_

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