Animals that contain J

List of Animals That Contain J

1

Jackal

Canis aureus

A medium-sized canid of Africa and Asia — a highly adaptable scavenger and hunter that forms monogamous lifetime pairs and cooperatively raises young, serving an essential ecological role as a cleanup crew.

2

Jaguar

Panthera onca

The largest cat in the Americas and the third-largest in the world, a powerfully built ambush predator with the strongest pound-for-pound bite force of any big cat.

3

Jellyfish

Scyphozoa, Cubozoa, Hydrozoa, Staurozoa (classes)

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.

4

Kinkajou

Potos flavus

A golden, nocturnal rainforest mammal related to raccoons — it has a prehensile tail for gripping branches, an extraordinarily long tongue for extracting flower nectar (making it an important pollinator), and large dark eyes adapted for night vision; it sleeps in hollow trees by day and is one of the few carnivores that has adopted a largely frugivorous and nectarivorous diet.