ANIMALS

8-letter Animals that contain E

Animals with exactly 8 letters that contain E — full profile for each.

You're looking for 8-letter animals containing E — here are 8 matches, each linked to a full profile.

List of 8-letter Animals that contain E

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    Anteater

    Myrmecophaga tridactyla (giant); Vermilingua suborder

    A long-snouted, toothless mammal with a sticky tongue that flicks 150 times per minute — eating exclusively ants and termites, with the giant anteater of South America consuming up to 35,000 insects daily.

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    Antelope

    Antilopinae and Bovidae (subfamilies; not a single species)

    A diverse group of fast, lightweight horned ungulates spanning over 90 species across Africa, Asia, and the Americas — many of the world's fastest land mammals.

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    Elephant

    Loxodonta africana

    The largest living land animal, recognizable by its long trunk and tusks, and remarkable for its complex social structures and matriarchal herds.

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    Hedgehog

    Erinaceus europaeus (European hedgehog)

    A small spiky insectivore beloved across Europe and Asia — covered in 5,000+ defensive spines, capable of curling into an impenetrable ball, and increasingly endangered by habitat loss in the UK.

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    Mongoose

    Herpestidae (family)

    A diverse African and Asian mammal family famous for snake-fighting prowess — about 35 species ranging from solitary forest dwellers to highly social pack animals like meerkats.

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    Red Panda

    Ailurus fulgens

    A cinnamon-red tree-dwelling mammal of the Himalayas and Chinese mountains — not closely related to the giant panda despite sharing its bamboo diet, it was discovered by European science 50 years before the giant panda and may have given pandas their name; it eats bamboo with the same false thumb (enlarged wrist bone) evolved independently in both species.

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    Reindeer

    Rangifer tarandus

    The only deer species in which both males and females grow antlers — domesticated for thousands of years by Arctic peoples for meat, milk, hide, and transport; famous in Western culture as Santa Claus's sleigh-pullers, based on real Sámi traditions of reindeer herding.

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    Squirrel

    Sciurus carolinensis (Eastern grey); Sciurus vulgaris (Eurasian red); many species

    A small bushy-tailed rodent of trees and parks — among the most successful suburban-adapted mammals, with hoarding behavior that accidentally plants countless trees each year.

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