Vervet Monkey

- Environmental adaptability
- Ingenious survival abilities
- Ability to understand complex family issues
Vulture, Buzzard, Condor

- Death and rebirth
- Prophecy
- Love of the Mother goddess
- Knowledge concerning the death of a loved one
- New vision
- Purification
Wagtail, Willie Wagtail, White Wagtail

- Camp protector
- Brings messages about relatives
- Protector of lost children
- Patron of child care providers
- Teaches the proper use of gossip
Walking Stick

Walking sticks resemble the insect, praying mantis. That is because both insects are called stick insects. Although they have very similar colored markings and may live in the same habitat, field, or garden, there are significant differences between the two species.
- Positive use of slowness
- Stillness
- Use of mimicry
- Ability to hide in plain sight
Warbler

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- Diversity
- Beauty of all soul songs
- Invisibility
- Frail endurance
- Survival
Wasp, Horney, Yellowjacket

- Use of female warrior energy
- Sisterhood
- Understanding female societies
- Communal living
Waterbuck

- Use of water as protection
- Increased protection as age increases
- Connection to swamps
- Lack of territoriality
Waydah/ White Winged Widow Bird

- Spousal protection
- Giving up young for adoption
- Use of beauty in courtship
- Aggression
- Need for open spaces
Weasel

- Stealth
- Cunning
- Ingenuity
- Revenge
- Keen observation
- Ability to see hidden reasons behind things
- Power of observation
Woodpecker, Sapsucker

- Connection to the earth
- Ability to find hidden layers
- Understands rhythms, cycles and patterns
- Warnings
- Prophecy
- Associated with thunder
- The Earth’s drummer
- Pecks away at deception until the truth is revealed
Zebra

- Balance
- Seeing in black and white
- Clarity without filters
- Power
- Sureness of path
- Maintaining the individual within the herd