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There are several lists of individual animals on Wikipedia. These are lists of notable, non-fictional, specific animals (as opposed to groups of categories of animals).
العربية; Aragonés; অসমীয়া; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
Salawa – the "Typhonian Animal," a slender, vaguely canine-animal that is the totemic animal of Set; Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines) Sky Fox (mythology), a celestial nine-tailed Fox Spirit that is 1,000 years old and has golden fur (Chinese) Shug Monkey – dog/monkey creature found in Cambridgeshire (Britain)
Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs .
This was the last major animal to be tamed as a source of milk, meat, power, and leather in the Old World. Lascaux aurochs, Stone Age [2] 3500 BC. Sumerian animal-drawn wheeled vehicles and plows were developed in Mesopotamia, the region called the "Fertile Crescent." Irrigation was probably done using animal power.
List of named animals and plants in Germanic heroic legend; List of Philippine mythological creatures; List of spiritual entities in Islam; Mythical creatures in Burmese folklore; Supernatural beings in Slavic religion
Ganges river dolphin (national aquatic animal) Platanista gangetica [33] Indian elephant (national heritage animal) Elephas maximus indicus [34] Indonesia: Komodo dragon (national animal) Varanus komodoensis [35] Javan hawk-eagle (national bird) Nisaetus bartelsi [35] Asian arowana (national fish) Scleropages formosus [35] Italy: Italian wolf ...
The zoo paid an animal behavioral therapist to diagnose Gus' problem; [38] the therapist concluded that Gus was "bored and mildly crazy in the way that a lot of people are in New York". [39] Gus' erratic behavior tapered off with changes to his habitat and mealtimes; [38] he was also the first zoo animal in history to be treated with Prozac. [40]