Mammals
Dive deep into our extensive database of incredible animals.
African Elephant
The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the largest living terrestrial animal on Earth, a ...
Alpaca
The alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is a domesticated South American camelid that has been selectively bred f...
Arctic Fox
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) is a small, tenacious canid that has achieved what few mammals have ...
Asian Elephant
The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is the largest land animal in Asia and one of the most intellig...
Nine-Banded Armadillo
The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) is the most widespread and familiar member of the o...
Baboon
Baboons are large, robust, and extraordinarily adaptable Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Pa...
European Badger
The European badger (Meles meles) is the largest member of the family Mustelidae native to Britain a...
Beaver
The beaver (Castor canadensis — the North American beaver; and Castor fiber — the Eurasian beaver) i...
Beluga Whale
The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is a medium-sized toothed whale found in Arctic and sub-Arc...
American Bison
The American bison (Bison bison) is the largest land animal in North America and one of the most pow...
American Black Bear
The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is the most common and widely distributed bear species in...
Black Rhinoceros
The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is a species of rhinoceros native to eastern and southern Af...
Blue Whale
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is not only the largest animal alive today but the largest an...
Bottlenose Dolphin
The bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is the most extensively studied cetacean in the world an...
Brown Bear
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is one of the world's largest terrestrial carnivores and one of the mo...
Camel
The dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) is the quintessential large desert ungulate and one of the...
Cheetah
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is the fastest land animal on Earth — a living embodiment of speed, p...
Chimpanzee
The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), along with the closely related bonobo, is the closest living relat...
Capybara
The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is the world's largest living rodent — a semi-aquatic, barr...
Clouded Leopard
The clouded leopard is one of the most beautiful, mysterious, and evolutionarily distinctive wild ca...
Coyote
The coyote (Canis latrans) is a medium-sized canid native to North America and one of the most adapt...
Cougar
The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as the mountain lion, puma, or panther, is a large cat native...
Dingo
The dingo (Canis dingo) is Australia's largest terrestrial apex predator and one of the most ecologi...
Eastern Grey Kangaroo
The eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) is the second largest marsupial on Earth and the most...
Fennec Fox
The fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) holds the remarkable distinction of being the world's smallest fox spe...
Giant Anteater
The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) is one of the most anatomically specialized and evoluti...
Giant Panda
The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is one of the world's most iconic and instantly recognizabl...
Giraffe
The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is the tallest living terrestrial animal on Earth — an ungulate...
Western Lowland Gorilla
The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is the most numerous and widespread of the fou...
Gray Wolf
The gray wolf (Canis lupus) is the largest wild canid, the apex predator of the northern hemisphere'...
Grizzly Bear
The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) is a subspecies of brown bear native to North America, re...
Harbor Seal
The harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) is one of the most familiar and widely distributed pinnipeds on Ear...
Hedgehog
The Western European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) is a small, ancient, and remarkably successful i...
Honey Badger
The honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as the ratel, is a small but extraordinarily formi...
Hippopotamus
The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is the third-largest land animal on Earth — a massive, sem...
Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, odd-toed ungulate mammal that has been central t...
Humpback Whale
The humpback whale is one of the most celebrated and charismatic animals on Earth — a giant of the o...
Jaguar
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is the largest cat in the Americas and the third-largest felid in the wor...
Koala
The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an arboreal, obligate folivore marsupial and the sole survivin...
Lion
The lion (Panthera leo) is a majestic species in the family Felidae and one of the 'big cats' in the...
Leopard
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is the most widespread of the large cats, the most adaptable, the most...
Eurasian Lynx
The Eurasian lynx is the largest of the four lynx species and the largest wild cat native to Europe ...
Llama
The llama (Lama glama) is a large, domesticated South American camelid that has been central to Ande...
Manatee
Manatees are large, fully aquatic herbivorous mammals belonging to the order Sirenia, an ancient lin...
Mandrill
The mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is the world's largest monkey and one of the most visually striking...
Mongoose
The Indian grey mongoose (Herpestes edwardsii) is a small carnivorous mammal native to South and Sou...
Meerkat
The meerkat (Suricata suricatta) is a small, intensely social carnivore of the southern African arid...
Moose
The moose (Alces alces), known as the elk in Eurasia, is the largest and heaviest member of the deer...
Mountain Gorilla
The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is one of the most awe-inspiring animals on Earth a...
Muskox
The muskox (Ovibos moschatus) is one of the most extraordinary large mammals to have survived the la...
Naked Mole-Rat
The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is, by almost any biological metric, the most extraordina...
Narwhal
The narwhal is one of the most mythologically charged and scientifically intriguing animals on Earth...
Ocelot
The ocelot is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful wild cats in the Western Hemisphere — a sleek...
Okapi
The okapi (Okapia johnstoni) is one of the most enigmatic and zoologically remarkable large mammals ...
Orangutan
Orangutans are the largest arboreal animals in the world and among humanity's closest living relativ...
Orca
The orca (Orcinus orca), commonly known as the killer whale, is the largest member of the oceanic do...
Pangolin
The pangolin (Manis temminckii), also known as the ground pangolin or Cape pangolin, is a unique, sc...
Platypus
The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is among the most biologically extraordinary animals alive o...
Polar Bear
The polar bear is the largest land carnivore on Earth and the undisputed apex predator of the Arctic...
Porcupine
The porcupine is one of the most instantly recognizable and evolutionarily extraordinary rodents on ...
Quokka
The quokka (Setonix brachyurus) is a small macropod — a member of the same marsupial family as kanga...
Rabbit
The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is a small mammal native to southwestern Europe and nort...
Raccoon
The raccoon (Procyon lotor) is a medium-sized omnivorous mammal native to North America and one of t...
Red Kangaroo
The red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) is the largest living marsupial, the largest native terrestrial ...
Red Fox
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes, the most widely distributed wild carni...
Red Panda
The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is a small, arboreal mammal native to the temperate forests of the e...
Ring-Tailed Lemur
The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) is the most recognized and most studied of Madagascar's approxim...
Reindeer
The reindeer — known as caribou in North America — is one of the most ecologically important, cultur...
Sea Lion
Sea lions are among the most charismatic and intelligent marine mammals on Earth, belonging to the f...
Sea Otter
The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a remarkable marine mammal belonging to the family Mustelidae — th...
Sloth Bear
The Sloth Bear (*Melursus ursinus*) is a fascinating, highly unique, and largely nocturnal insectivo...
Skunk
Skunks (family Mephitidae) are small to medium-sized, distinctively patterned omnivorous mammals nat...
Snow Leopard
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is one of the most elusive, mysterious, and beautiful large cats o...
Sperm Whale
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest toothed predator on Earth and possesses the ...
Spotted Hyena
The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) is the most common large carnivore in Africa and, despite its ce...
Sun Bear
The sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) is the smallest of the world's eight bear species, with adults ty...
Tapir
The tapir is one of the most ancient and evolutionarily unchanged large mammals on Earth, a living r...
Philippine Tarsier
The Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta) is one of the world's smallest and most enigmatic primates...
Tasmanian Devil
The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is the world's largest surviving carnivorous marsupial — ...
Three-Toed Sloth
Three-toed sloths (genus Bradypus) are among the most extraordinary and evolutionarily successful ma...
Tiger
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest living cat species on Earth and one of the most iconic me...
Vampire Bat
The common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, is one of the most behaviorally sophisticated and biologi...
Walrus
The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is one of the Arctic's most iconic and extraordinary marine mammals —...
White Rhinoceros
The white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is the largest living rhinoceros species and the largest ...
White-tailed Deer
The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is one of the most iconic and widely distributed larg...
Wolverine
The wolverine (Gulo gulo) is the largest terrestrial member of the family Mustelidae, which also inc...
Wild Boar
The wild boar (Sus scrofa) is one of the most geographically widespread and ecologically successful ...
Common Wombat
The common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) is a large, stocky, burrowing marsupial endemic to southeastern...
Plains Zebra
The plains zebra (Equus quagga) is the most common and most studied of the three living zebra specie...