Animals with exactly 5 letters that begin with S — full profile for each.
You're looking for 5-letter animals starting with S — here are 7 matches, each linked to a full profile.
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 small ruminant raised for wool, meat, milk, and leather — among the earliest domesticated animals, with over a billion sheep alive worldwide today.
A black-and-white mammal famous for its sulfurous defensive spray — capable of accurate spraying up to 3 meters, with a smell so persistent it can linger for days even after washing.
A slow-moving, tree-hanging mammal native to Central and South American rainforests, so sluggish that algae grows on its fur — providing camouflage and a small ecosystem.
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.
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