ANIMALS

Animals that end with I

4 animals ending with the letter I — each with origin, classification, and notes.

This page lists animals that end with I. 4 animals are detailed below. Each entry below is a doorway into a full profile — not just a name on a list.

Table of contents 4 entries
CoatiNilgaiOkapiUakari

List of Animals That End With I

    1

    Coati

    Nasua nasua

    A long-snouted, ringed-tail member of the raccoon family from Central and South America — highly social in females, solitary in males, and remarkably intelligent foragers.

    2

    Nilgai

    Boselaphus tragocamelus

    The largest Asian antelope — the nilgai (or blue bull) is a horse-sized bovid with a distinctively horse-like gait and a sloping back; males are slate-blue with a white patch on the throat, white ear spots, and short conical horns; females are tawny-brown and hornless; the nilgai is the most common large wild mammal of the Indian plains, coexisting with agriculture and often raiding crops.

    3

    Okapi

    Okapia johnstoni

    A secretive forest giraffe of the Congo Basin — the only living relative of the giraffe, despite looking more like a striped horse, and completely unknown to Western science until 1901.

    4

    Uakari

    Cacajao calvus

    A South American monkey with a strikingly bare red face — health visible at a glance — that lives in flooded Amazonian forests and is among the most threatened primates in the Americas.

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