A Mario 64 style penguin I made (in Wings 3D) in about an hour. 7 objects, 880 faces, 1501 edges and 635 vertices. I should delete some edges because there are alot of pointless ones(I should be able to bring it down to maybe 1000). I would animate it if I had an animator. I just discovered I could bend and move faces and not just be limited to whole objects. :)
I sense Pidge the Penguin 2 coming on...