Nouns denoting animals
- genus Hirundo
- type genus of the Hirundinidae
- Calliphora vicina
- blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight
- jungle fowl
- small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl
- genus Automeris
- io moth
- animalcule
- microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
- genus Brontosaurus
- large quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaurs with very long neck and tail; late Jurassic
- eubacterium
- a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
- order Phasmatodea
- in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects
- genus Indri
- type genus of the Indriidae
- Selenarctos thibetanus
- bear with a black coat living in central and eastern Asia
- coraciiform bird
- chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes
- Rock Cornish
- small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl
- lacertid
- Old World terrestrial lizard
- genus Anguis
- type genus of the Anguidae: blindworms
- order Notostraca
- small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace
- Bubulcus ibis
- small white egret widely distributed in warm regions often found around grazing animals
- Cercopithecus talapoin
- smallest guenon monkey; of swampy central and west African forests
- work animal
- an animal trained for and used for heavy labor
- Balistes vetula
- tropical Atlantic fish
- family Hylidae
- the amphibian family of tree frogs