I'm sooo sorry that I never replied!
If I had to be any animal... I think I'd like to be a fin back whale. They're large (making me an unlikely choice of snack!), powerful, intelligent and mildly social... they travel in tight knit pods of 5-8 whale friends, which sounds nice, not too social, but not totally solitary either. They also communicate through singing to one another, which is rather sweet of them I think!