7-letter Animals that contain R

List of 7-letter Animals that contain R

1

Caracal

Caracal caracal

A sleek, medium-sized wild cat of Africa and Asia with extraordinary tufted black ears and the most impressive leaping ability of any cat its size — capable of batting down multiple birds from a flock simultaneously.

2

Gerenuk

Litocranius walleri

The giraffe gazelle of East African thornbush — the gerenuk has an extraordinarily long neck and legs that allow it to stand bipedally on its hind legs to browse up to 2 metres high in acacia bushes; the only antelope that routinely stands on its hind legs to feed; a Somali name meaning giraffe-necked describes it precisely; unlike most antelopes, it never drinks water, obtaining all moisture from browse.

3

Giraffe

Giraffa camelopardalis

The tallest living land animal, with an extraordinarily long neck and legs and a patchwork coat unique to each individual.

4

Gorilla

Gorilla beringei (eastern); Gorilla gorilla (western)

The largest living primate — gentle vegetarian forest dwellers of Central Africa, organized in family groups led by silverback males, with tragic conservation crises across all four subspecies.

5

Leopard

Panthera pardus

The most adaptable big cat — found from African savannas to Russian taiga to urban Mumbai — with rosette-spotted fur, a powerful bite, and remarkable ability to haul prey twice its weight up trees.

6

Lobster

Homarus americanus (American); Homarus gammarus (European)

A large marine crustacean — once a poor person's food in colonial New England, now an iconic luxury seafood and the foundation of major Maritime fisheries on both sides of the North Atlantic.

7

Markhor

Capra falconeri

The national animal of Pakistan — a large wild goat of the Himalayas and Hindu Kush with spectacular spiral horns that in old males can reach 160 cm; the horns spiral outward in a tight corkscrew, unique among wild goats; the markhor lives on vertiginous cliff faces inaccessible to most predators and is revered in the region — its Farsi name means "snake eater," though it does not actually eat snakes.

8

Meerkat

Suricata suricatta

A small social mongoose of southern African deserts — famous for upright sentinel posture, tightly cooperative family groups, and starring roles in nature documentaries and "The Lion King."

9

Narwhal

Monodon monoceros

An Arctic whale with a single long spiraled tusk — actually a tooth — that gives it the popular name "unicorn of the sea," found only in the high Arctic.

10

Raccoon

Procyon lotor

A masked, dexterous-pawed nocturnal mammal of North American forests and cities — exceptionally intelligent, omnivorous, and notorious for cracking open garbage cans and pet food containers.

11

Sun Bear

Helarctos malayanus

The world's smallest bear — a tree-climbing, honey-obsessed omnivore from Southeast Asia with an extraordinarily long tongue, a chest patch shaped like a rising sun, and an unexpectedly expressive face.

12

Tarsier

Tarsius spectrum and related Tarsius species

The primate with the largest eyes relative to body size of any mammal — a tiny nocturnal primate of Southeast Asian forests whose enormous, fixed eyes cannot move in their sockets (the animal must rotate its entire head to change direction of gaze); each eye is as large as its brain; it is the only entirely carnivorous primate, eating insects, lizards, and small birds.