So fun! And surprisingly challenging!
The art style is absolutely perfect, very simple and stylized but very consistent even in the UI. Really good job, congrats! The waves felt very fair, not too hard and not too easy, even with the help of the other animals.
One very very minor point in the controls if that it didn't feel intuitive to have to press space to take the food from the cardinal. Everytime I'd try to get it with my tongue and then I'd go "oh yeah, it's space". But that's a very small thing and I still completed the game.
Very well made, good job!