🇯🇵 Animals of Japan

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

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

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

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

The coconut crab is the largest land-living arthropod.

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

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

The Eurasian sparrowhawk is a small hawk that hunts other birds by ambush.

The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus.

The great egret is a tall white heron that hunts fish in shallow water on six continents.

The great white shark is the largest predatory fish.

The green sea turtle grazes on seagrass in warm coastal waters.

The grey heron is a tall grey and white wading bird of European, Asian and African wetlands.

The Japanese macaque, or snow monkey, is the only monkey native to Japan and the most northerly primate apart from people.

The long-tailed tit is a tiny black, white and pink bird with a tail longer than its body.

The mallard is the green-headed dabbling duck of ponds, rivers and city parks across the northern world.

The mandarin duck is a small perching duck of East Asian woodland rivers.

The nutria, or coypu, is a large semiaquatic rodent from the marshes of South America with orange teeth and a round rat-like tail.

The orca is the largest dolphin and the top predator of the sea.

The osprey is a large brown and white raptor that lives on fish and hunts by plunging feet first into water.

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth.

The red fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.

The rock dove is the wild pigeon of sea cliffs and rocky gorges in Europe, North Africa and southern Asia.

The rock ptarmigan is a grouse of high mountains and Arctic tundra that changes colour with the seasons.

The rose-ringed parakeet is a slim green parrot with a red bill and a very long tail.

The sable is a small marten of the Siberian taiga, hunted for centuries for the softest fur in the trade.

The sperm whale is the biggest of the toothed whales and the largest predator with teeth.

Steller's sea eagle is the heaviest eagle in the world, a black and white fish hunter of the northeast Asian coast.

The white-tailed eagle is the largest bird of prey in Europe, a brown sea eagle with a short white wedge of a tail.

The wild boar is the wild pig of Europe, Asia and North Africa and the ancestor of the domestic pig.