I think you would find it very interesting. One thing that becomes really obvious is how very different some animals are from us, which is why I think they'd make good models for aliens. I always thought it would be interesting to design some intelligent life forms living in the atmosphere of a gas giant, and model them after octopuses or something. I can picture huge floating cities built on the equivalent of coral reefs... Sadly, my modeling skills aren't quite up to my imagination (yet).