Animals with exactly 5 letters that contain A — full profile for each.
You're looking for 5-letter animals containing A — here are 17 matches, each linked to a full profile.
A large hump-backed desert mammal capable of going days without water — central to desert civilizations from Arabia to the Sahara, with two hump-counts (one and two) representing distinct species.
A long-snouted, ringed-tail member of the raccoon family from Central and South America — highly social in females, solitary in males, and remarkably intelligent foragers.
A general name for the largest birds of prey in the family Accipitridae — including the bald, golden, harpy, and Philippine eagles — apex predators with extraordinary vision and as many cultural symbolic meanings as cultures themselves.
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 powerful African scavenger and predator with the strongest bite force of any mammal — capable of crushing bones, organized in matriarchal clans of up to 80 individuals, and far more an active hunter than the scavenger reputation suggests.
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.
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.
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 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.
An ancient cartilaginous fish that has roamed the oceans for over 400 million years — predating dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years — with over 500 living species ranging from the 18 cm dwarf lanternshark to the 18 m whale shark.
A legless reptile of nearly every habitat on Earth — over 3,800 species ranging from the 10 cm thread snake to the 6 m anaconda, with sophisticated venom systems and an extraordinary ability to swallow prey larger than their heads.
A small, fierce mustelid — an elongated, chestnut-brown predator with a cream underside and a black-tipped tail; stoats are specialist rabbit hunters, able to pursue prey much larger than themselves, and can send entire rabbit warrens into paralysed panic; in northern Britain and at altitude, they turn pure white (ermine) in winter, retaining only the black tail-tip.
The ungainly giant of Himalayan forest — the takin looks improbable, like a goat that has been assembled from spare parts; it has the massive body of a musk ox, the Roman nose of a wildebeest, a short tail, and a yellow-gold coat; it is the national animal of Bhutan, where it is closely associated with the Divine Madman's legend; one of the larger bovids of Asia and a herd animal of dense rhododendron and bamboo forest.
A large, prehistoric-looking mammal from South America and Southeast Asia with a short prehensile trunk — one of the oldest surviving large-mammal body plans on Earth, more closely related to horses and rhinos than to pigs.
The largest animals ever to live on Earth — ocean-dwelling mammals descended from hoofed land ancestors, with the blue whale's heart the size of a small car and the sperm whale's brain the largest ever.
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.
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