Asia

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

The Arctic fox is a small fox of the tundra with the best insulating fur of any mammal.

The Asian black bear is a medium-sized forest bear of Asia with a pale crescent on its chest and a gift for climbing.

The Asian elephant is a large herbivore native to southern and southeastern Asia.

The Asian palm civet is a small, cat-like viverrid of South and Southeast Asia that climbs trees at night to eat fruit.

The atlas moth is a large silk moth of Asian tropical and subtropical forests.

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

The domestic Bactrian camel is a two-humped camel associated with Central Asia.

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

Betta splendens is a small Southeast Asian freshwater fish.

The binturong is a large, shaggy civet of the South and Southeast Asian forest canopy.

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

The Bornean orangutan is the largest tree-living animal in the world.

The bowhead whale is a heavy Arctic baleen whale that breaks sea ice with its huge arched head.

The brown bear is one of the two largest land carnivores, and it ranges across the forests and mountains of Eurasia and North America.

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

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

Camels are large dry-country mammals.

The Canada goose is a large black-necked goose with a white chinstrap, native to North America and now settled on four continents.

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

Carp is a broad familiar name for related freshwater fishes.

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.

Chameleons are climbing lizards with specialized prey-catching tongues.

The chamois is a small goat-antelope of the steep mountains of Europe and western Asia, with hooked horns and a striped face.

The cheetah is the fastest land animal.

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

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

The clownfish lives inside the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone, which it cleans and defends in return.

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 frog is a widespread European amphibian that also occurs in northwestern Asia.

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 pheasant is a long-tailed gamebird from Asia that people have released across the world.

The common raccoon dog is a stocky, fox-like canid of East Asia with a black face mask like a raccoon's.

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.

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 elk, or wapiti, is the second largest deer in the world.

The Eurasian blue tit is a small blue and yellow songbird of European woods, parks and gardens.

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

The Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the largest owls in the world, with orange eyes and long ear tufts.