For those who were confused in the first part, what I meant is that if you wanted to do your daily 30 minute reward task, you could use my example. I hope that helped!
And that's true! I started off as an elk and then bought the coyote thanks to that strategy. The only problem is that there could be predators anywhere.
You can either wait the next day to do some more daily tasks, ask someone to gift you, or just buy coins. Sadly there is no other option, for what I know at least.