Animals pronounced in 2 syllables that end with A — full profile for each.
You're looking for 2-syllable animals ending with A — here are 10 matches, each linked to a full profile.
Madagascar's apex predator — a cat-like carnivore related to mongooses that can climb trees with equal agility going up or down, hunts lemurs by leaping through the forest canopy, and is the largest carnivore native to Madagascar; despite resembling a cat, it is more closely related to civets.
A slow, eucalyptus-eating Australian marsupial with thick fur and a specialized digestive system, often called a "bear" but unrelated to true bears.
A South American camelid domesticated for cargo, wool, and meat by Andean civilizations — sure-footed at extreme altitudes, with a tendency to spit at threats and a deep cultural place in Inca religion.
The Patagonian mara looks exactly like a small deer but is actually a giant guinea pig — a large South American rodent that runs on the tips of its hoofed toes, mates for life, and lives in colonial warrens where multiple pairs deposit their young in a communal den while taking turns guarding.
A black-and-white bear that subsists almost entirely on bamboo despite a carnivore's digestive system, and the international symbol of wildlife conservation.
A small, round-eared relative of rabbits that lives on rocky mountain slopes and alpine meadows — unlike its rabbit relatives, it does not hibernate but instead spends summer frantically collecting and drying grasses and wildflowers into hay piles for winter; its distinctive high-pitched call echoes across talus slopes.
The Americas' most widely distributed large cat — known also as cougar, mountain lion, and panther — a powerful, adaptable solitary hunter that ranges from the Canadian Yukon to Patagonia.
A small, herbivorous Australian marsupial nicknamed the "world's happiest animal" for its perpetually grinning face, found only on Rottnest Island and in small mainland populations.
A bizarre-looking antelope with an oversized, bulbous nose that filters dust and warms cold air on the Central Asian steppe; one of the most ancient living mammals, surviving alongside woolly mammoths, and now critically endangered after a catastrophic 2015 die-off killed 200,000 animals in three weeks.
The most common and widespread zebra species, a grazing horse with vivid black-and-white striping that lives in family bands across the African savanna.
Adjust the filter in the sidebar, or jump to all 2-syllable animals, all animals that end with A, or the full animals index.