Animal Totems: Is there a mechanical incentive to pick bear, wolf, or bull totems?

[Paradozen]

As the title suggests, I don't see any reason to ever pick bear, wolf, or bull totems in comparison to other totems.

Bear gives you claw and bite attacks, and a slightly faster movespeed with animal rage. Which is supposed to compete with cat totem, which does all of this except the claws are better and the movespeed is faster. No disadvantage here, no area where bear is better, just a bear+.

Wolf and Bull give you a single natural attack, and with animal rage gives you a slightly better speed. Deer does this too, but is faster than either of the other two with animal rage.

The other totems have a niche IMO. Ape is the fastest climber, so if you adventure in a region where climb speeds will be incredibly useful it might be good to be the best here. Shark is the fastest swimmer, as ape but for water. Frog is slower at swimming than shark, but has a landspeed and some reach, making it decent if you are going for a more amphibious environment and helps compensate slower speed by not needing to go as far. Snake is slower than any other option, but it can climb, swim, and move overland. Not every campaign or playstyle will benefit from these, but the benefits exist.

For wolf, bull, and bear, I just don't see a mechanical reason to not be a deer or cat instead. Anything I'm missing? Does this bother anyone else?

[Fuzzypaws]

I was wondering if Wolf, Bear and Bull were originally intended to gain Knockdown, Grab and Trample or another ability respectively, to compare against the better options.

[Xalemich]

The way I see it, Cat and Wolf are absolutely the same in terms of power-gaming, as I can't really see a situation where you would think that the dive in Rage Power is balanced by the ability to use the Claw Attacks Agile feature - But no, Bear and Bull are pretty much just punished in terms of move speed without any gain to it at all.