11 animals containing the letter F — each with origin, classification, and notes.
Below are animals that contain the letter F anywhere in the name. Each of the 11 animals below opens to a full profile.
A general name for several large bovines — the African Cape buffalo (one of the most dangerous animals in Africa), the Asian water buffalo (essential to rice farming), and the American "buffalo" (actually a bison).
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.
A domesticated polecat used for centuries to hunt rabbits — popular as a curious, energetic pet, with strong predatory instincts and a reputation for both companionship and mischief.
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.
The most widespread wild canid on Earth, an adaptable omnivore with a luxurious red coat, white-tipped tail, and a notorious reputation for cleverness.
A diverse order of tailless amphibians — over 7,000 species worldwide, ranging from microscopic to football-sized, with skin that breathes, tongues that snap, and an outsized role in ecological monitoring.
The tallest living land animal, with an extraordinarily long neck and legs and a patchwork coat unique to each individual.
A diverse group of marine cnidarians with translucent bodies and stinging tentacles — among Earth's oldest animals, with body plans essentially unchanged for 500+ million years and increasingly abundant in warming oceans.
The giraffe-legged wolf of South American grasslands — an unmistakable canid with improbably long legs, reddish-orange fur, a black mane, and large ears; the maned wolf is not closely related to wolves or foxes, being the sole member of its genus; it is an omnivore that eats more fruit than meat, and the wolf-apple (lobeira fruit) forms a large part of its diet.
A radially symmetric marine invertebrate (more correctly called a sea star) with hundreds of tube feet, the ability to regenerate lost arms, and a unique digestive system that turns inside-out to feed.
The largest wild canid, a deeply social pack-hunter with the broadest historical range of any wild mammal except humans, and ancestor to the domestic dog.
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