Carnivore

The Adelie penguin is the most widespread penguin of the Antarctic coast.

The African bullfrog spends dry periods buried underground and becomes active with rain.

The African wild dog is a social canid with an irregularly patterned coat.

The African wildcat is a small striped cat of dry Africa and Asia, and the ancestor of every domestic cat.

Albatrosses are ocean-going seabirds.

The alligator gar is a large North American fish with a broad, tooth-filled snout.

Allosaurus was a large meat-eating dinosaur of the Late Jurassic.

The American alligator is a freshwater crocodilian of the southeastern United States.

The American kestrel is the smallest falcon in the Americas and the most numerous.

The Andean condor is a huge black vulture of the Andes and the Pacific coast of South America.

Anglerfishes include many different marine hunters.

The Argentine horned frog is a broad-bodied ambush hunter with a very large mouth.

The Atlantic cod is a cold-water fish of the North Atlantic.

Atlantic mackerel are streamlined schooling fishes of northern seas.

The Atlantic salmon hatches in a river, grows up at sea, and returns to the same river to spawn.

The axolotl is a salamander that never grows up.

The ball python is a heavy-bodied African snake that curls around its head when threatened.

The barn owl is a pale nocturnal hunter with a heart-shaped face.

The barred owl is a large brown owl of North American woodland, with dark eyes, a round head and no ear tufts.

Basilisks are tropical American lizards.

The bearded vulture is a huge mountain raptor that lives almost entirely on bone.

The common bed bug is a small wingless insect that hides in sheltered cracks near sleeping hosts.

The beluga whale is a white toothed whale of Arctic and sub-Arctic seas.

The bigfin reef squid lives in warm coastal waters around reefs and seagrass.

The black kite is a medium-sized raptor with angled wings and a forked tail.

The black mamba is a venomous African snake named for the dark lining of its mouth.

The black marlin is a large predatory billfish of the Indo-Pacific.

The black vulture is a glossy black scavenger of the Americas, with a bare grey head and white patches at the wingtips.

Black widows include several related spiders.

The black-footed cat is Africa's smallest wild cat, a spotted night hunter of the dry grasslands of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.

The blue dragon sea slug floats upside down at the ocean surface.

The bobcat is a medium-sized lynx with a short black-tipped tail, found from southern Canada to southern Mexico.

Box jellyfishes are named for their angular bells.

The bull shark is a robust coastal shark that can also spend time in fresh water.

The American bullfrog is a large frog that waits near water for passing prey.

The Burmese python is a large Asian constrictor with dark blotches.

The burrowing owl is a small, long-legged owl of open country in the Americas.

Caecilians are limbless amphibians with concealed eyes and sensory tentacles.

Caimans are crocodilians of the Americas.

The California condor is the largest land bird in North America, with a wingspan of about 3 metres and a bare orange head.

Camel spiders are fast-running arachnids of the order Solifugae.

The Canada lynx is a thick-furred cat of the boreal forest with tufted ears and huge snowshoe paws.

The caracal is a slim, long-legged cat with black ear tufts, found across Africa and from Arabia to India.

The domestic cat is a small carnivore with a flexible body and retractile claws.

Centipedes are many-legged predators.

The cheetah is the fastest land animal.

The clouded leopard is a mid-sized cat of the forests of the Himalayan foothills, Southeast Asia and southern China.

Living coelacanths are lobe-finned fishes, rather than unchanged survivors of a single fossil species.

The colossal squid is a deep-water cephalopod of Antarctic and subantarctic seas.

The common buzzard is a broad-winged hawk of Europe and northern Asia, and the commonest bird of prey across most of that range.

The southern copperhead is a venomous North American pit viper.

Coral snakes include many species of venomous elapids.

The corn snake is a nonvenomous American snake with large back markings and a chequered belly.

The cottonmouth is a venomous, semiaquatic pit viper of the southeastern United States.

The cougar is a large solitary cat that ranges from the Yukon to the tip of South America.

The coyote is a mid-sized wild dog of North and Central America, smaller than a wolf and larger than a fox.

Cuttlefish are shell-bearing cephalopods with remarkable camouflage.

Damselflies link freshwater development with an aerial adult stage.

The dingo is a dog associated with Australia.

Discus are deep-bodied South American cichlids familiar in aquariums.