If you were transformed into an animal, you'd be a:

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

If you were transformed into an animal, you'd be a:

Many people picked mammals:

• polar bear
• flying squirrel
• dolphin (x2)
• wolf
• panda
• otter
• capybara
• sloth
• dog (x3)
• human (x3)
• bushbaby
• [own first name] (x3)

The surprising-to-me frontrunning category was birds. Birds!

• penguin (x3)
• bald eagle
• duck
• eagle
• owl
• bird (x2)
• Big Bird

Kudos for picking "birds", but the specificity of mammals was lacking here.

Then, as always, the outliers:

• shark (x2)
• stable matching
• meal
• dragon

I'm not sure that "stable matching" is an animal, so there's a type error there. Who wants to be a meal? At least one student in my class!

This post's theme word is infundibuliform (adj), "funnel-shaped." I'd be an infundibuliform sponge; it seems meditative.