4-syllable Animals that contain I

List of 4-syllable Animals that contain I

1

Alligator

Alligator (genus, two species)

A large freshwater reptilian predator native to the southeastern United States and a small enclave in eastern China — distinct from crocodiles in habitat, snout shape, and temperament.

2

Armadillo

Dasypus novemcinctus

A small American mammal armored in bony plates, the only mammal that gives birth to identical quadruplets and one of the few wild carriers of leprosy.

3

Babirusa

Babyrousa babyrussa

The deer-pig of Sulawesi — one of the most anatomically bizarre pigs in the world, with upper canine tusks that grow upward through the skin of the snout and curve back toward the skull; males carry these extraordinary recurved tusks throughout life, and in older individuals the tusks can complete a full circle; a Vulnerable species of Indonesian rainforest.

4

Rhinoceros

Ceratotherium simum

The second-largest land animal after the elephant, a massive grazing rhino with a square mouth and two horns, recovered from the brink of extinction but still poached for those horns.