3-syllable Animals that start with O

List of 3-syllable Animals that start with O

1

Octopus

Octopoda (order — many species)

An eight-limbed marine cephalopod with three hearts, blue blood, and an extraordinary intelligence — capable of solving puzzles, using tools, and changing color across its entire body in milliseconds despite being colorblind.

2

Okapi

Okapia johnstoni

A secretive forest giraffe of the Congo Basin — the only living relative of the giraffe, despite looking more like a striped horse, and completely unknown to Western science until 1901.

3

Onager

Equus hemionus

The wild ass of Asia — a fast, slender-legged equid midway between a horse and a donkey, the onager is built for speed across open desert steppe; in short sprints it can reach 70 km/h, making it one of the fastest land animals; populations have been severely reduced by hunting and habitat loss across most of their historical range; the Indian wild ass subspecies survives mainly in the Little Rann of Kutch.

4

Opossum

Didelphis virginiana

North America's only marsupial — a Virginia-opossum surviving and thriving across most of the continent, with a prehensile tail, 50 teeth, and the famous "playing dead" defense.