Africa

The aardvark is a pig-sized burrowing mammal of sub-Saharan Africa.

The aardwolf is the smallest member of the hyena family and eats almost nothing but termites.

The African buffalo is a heavy wild ox of sub-Saharan Africa that lives in herds of dozens to thousands and must drink every day.

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

The African bush elephant is the largest land animal alive.

The African forest elephant moves through the rainforests of western and central Africa.

Grey parrots are social African birds with grey feathers, a red tail and a strong curved bill.

The African penguin is the only penguin that breeds on the African continent.

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.

The Aldabra giant tortoise is a large land reptile native to a Seychelles atoll.

The Atlantic canary is the wild island finch from which domestic canaries descend.

The aurochs was the wild ox of Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, and the ancestor of domestic cattle.

The aye-aye is a nocturnal Madagascan primate with large ears and an unusually slender middle finger.

Baboons are social African monkeys.

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 barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.

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 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 rhinoceros is a two-horned browser of eastern and southern Africa with a pointed, gripping upper lip.

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 bonobo is a great ape of the Congo Basin.

The brown rat is a large, burrowing rodent that lives wherever people live.

Camels are large dry-country mammals.

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

The carrion crow is an all-black crow of western Europe and eastern Asia with a heavy bill and a harsh croak.

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

The cheetah is the fastest land animal.

The domestic chicken is a social ground-feeding bird descended chiefly from red junglefowl.

The chimpanzee is an African great ape that feeds mainly on fruit and other plant foods.

Cockroaches occupy many environments.

The coconut crab is the largest land-living arthropod.

The common blackbird is a true thrush of Europe, North Africa and western Asia, and the male is glossy black with a yellow eye-ring.

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 common kingfisher is a small blue and orange bird of clear, slow rivers across Europe, Asia and North Africa.

The common myna is a brown starling with a black head and a bare yellow patch behind the eye, native to southern Asia.

The common nightingale is a small brown songbird of dense scrub in Europe and western Asia.

The common ostrich is the largest and heaviest living bird and lays the largest egg.

The common raven is a large black crow that lives right across the northern half of the world.

The common starling is a glossy black songbird of Europe and Asia, spangled with white spots in winter.

The common swift is a blackish-brown bird with narrow curved wings that catches every meal in the air.

Cormorants are fish-eating diving birds.

Domestic cattle are large social herbivores kept in many parts of the world.

Cranes are long-legged birds of open country and wetlands.

Cuckoos form a varied bird family.

Cuttlefish are shell-bearing cephalopods with remarkable camouflage.

The dodo was a flightless pigeon that lived only on Mauritius, and it is now extinct.

The domestic dog is a social canid whose breeds vary greatly in size and appearance.

The domestic donkey is an herbivorous equid with long ears and sturdy hooves.

The dromedary is the one-humped domestic camel.

Ducks are waterbirds with many different feeding habits.

The dugong is a large marine mammal that grazes seagrass in warm, shallow coastal water from East Africa to Vanuatu.

Egrets are herons known for pale plumage in several species.

The Egyptian goose is a pale brown waterbird of African rivers, lakes and grassland, marked by a dark ring around each eye.

The emperor scorpion is a large, glossy black arachnid from western Africa.

The Eurasian collared dove is a pale grey dove with a black half-collar on the neck.

The Eurasian jay is a pinkish-brown crow with a bright blue panel on each wing.