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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).
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.
Individual wild animals (3 C, 100 P) Lists of individual animals (2 C, 22 P) A. Animal actors (4 C, 21 P) ... Animal world record holders (41 P) C. Circus animals (1 ...
White-tailed deer (national animal) Odocoileus virginianus [15] West Indian manatee (national aquatic animal) Trichechus manatus [15] Two-toed sloth (national animal) Choloepus hoffmanni [16] Three-toed sloth (national animal) Bradypus variegatus [16] Cuba: Cuban trogon (national bird) Priotelus temnurus [17] Denmark: Red squirrel (national ...
The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
A lion (Panthera leo).Lions are an example of charismatic megafauna, a group of wildlife species that are especially popular in human culture.. Wildlife refers to undomesticated animals and uncultivated plant species which can exist in their natural habitat, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. [1]
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology.