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9-letter Animals that contain C

Animals with exactly 9 letters that contain C — full profile for each.

You're looking for 9-letter animals containing C — here are 5 matches, each linked to a full profile.

List of 9-letter Animals that contain C

    1

    Cassowary

    Casuarius casuarius (Southern cassowary)

    The world's most dangerous bird — a large, flightless ratite of the New Guinea and Australian rainforest, armed with a dagger-like inner toe claw 12 cm long; females are larger than males and leave all parental duties to the father; the brilliant blue-and-red neck wattles serve as status signals.

    2

    Chameleon

    Chamaeleo chamaeleon (European chameleon); Furcifer pardalis (panther chameleon) and others

    The famous colour-changing lizard — chameleons change colour not primarily for camouflage but to communicate mood, temperature regulation, and social status; they have independently rotating eyes that provide 360-degree vision, a tongue that launches at 13 km/h to catch insects, and feet designed like tongs for gripping branches.

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    Crocodile

    Crocodylus (genus, multiple species)

    A large semi-aquatic reptilian predator that has changed remarkably little in 200 million years — the world's most powerful biting jaw and an apex predator of tropical rivers and estuaries.

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    Fennec Fox

    Vulpes zerda

    The world's smallest fox — weighing just 1–2 kg, with disproportionately enormous ears that serve as radiators in the Sahara heat and as precision directional hearing for locating prey underground.

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    Porcupine

    Erethizon dorsatum (North American); Hystrix cristata (African)

    A medium-large rodent armed with up to 30,000 barbed quills — solitary, slow-moving, and surprisingly difficult to predate due to a defense that has stopped lions, leopards, and pumas.

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