Animals

Articles about animal species, behavior and classification.

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Virginia opossum

Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)

Virus classification

Viscacha

Viscacha (Chinchillidae): species, appearance, behaviour and conservation

Viverravidae

Viverravidae: extinct family of early carnivorous mammals

Viverridae

Viverridae: biology, distribution, and taxonomy of viverrids

Vodka (horse)

Vogelkop bowerbird

Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornata)

Volcano rabbit

Volcano rabbit (teporingo): a small endangered rabbit of central Mexico

Vole

Vole: Small Rodents of the Subfamily Arvicolinae

Vulcanodon

Vulcanodon — an early sauropod from the Early Jurassic

Vulture

Vulture: ecology, biology, and cultural role

Wader

Wader (shorebird): overview, behaviour, feeding and conservation

Wagtail

Wagtail (Motacilla): small long-tailed insectivorous birds

Wakinosaurus

Wallaby

Wallaroo

Wallaroo (Australian macropod)

Walleye

Walleye (Sander vitreus): an overview of the North American gamefish

Walrus

Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Wannanosaurus

Wannanosaurus: a tiny pachycephalosaur from the Upper Cretaceous

Wapiti

Wapiti (Elk) — Cervus canadensis

War Emblem

War Emblem — American Thoroughbred racehorse

Warble fly

Warble fly (Hypoderma) — parasitic bot flies of livestock

Warren (domestic)

Domestic warren (rabbitry)

Warthog

Wasp

Wasps: biology, diversity, ecology, and human interactions

Water beetle

Water bird

Water buffalo

Water buffalo: biology, domestication, uses, and conservation

Water deer

Water deer (Hydropotes inermis)

Water strider

Water strider (pond skater) — surface-dwelling true bug

Waterfowl

Waterfowl: ducks, geese and swans — overview, traits, and conservation

Weasel

Weasel (genus Mustela): small carnivores of the Mustelid family

Wedge-tailed shearwater

Wedge-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus)

Weedy sea dragon

Weevil

Weevil (Curculionidae): snout beetles, diversity, biology and impact

Welsh Springer Spaniel

Werneria

West Caucasian tur

West Caucasian tur (Capra caucasica) — mountain goat-antelope of the western Caucasus

West Highland White Terrier

West Highland White Terrier (Westie)

West Indian manatee

West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus): biology, range, and conservation

Western diamondback rattlesnake

Western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox)

Western gorilla

Western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)

Western grebe

Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis): appearance, behavior, and conservation

Western grey kangaroo

Western horse

Western horse (Equus occidentalis): a Pleistocene North American equid

Western long-beaked echidna

Western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijni)

Western lowland gorilla

Western meadowlark

Western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta)