英単語はイメージで覚える！洋書多読1000万語の過程で出会った動物一覧

No	Name	Explanation
1	rhinoceros	a large, heavily built plant-eating mammal with one or two horns on the nose and thick folded skin, native to Africa and southern Asia.
2	moose	/muːs/ a large deer with palmate antlers and a growth of skin hanging from the neck, native to northern Eurasia and northern North America.
3	guinea pig	/ˈɡɪni pɪɡ/ a tailless South American rodent of the cavy family.
4	mole	a small burrowing mammal with dark velvety fur, a long muzzle, and very small eyes, feeding mainly on worms, grubs, and other invertebrates.
5	porcupine	a large rodent with defensive spines or quills on the body and tail.
7	sloth	/sləʊθ/ a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws.
13	opossums	an American marsupial which has a naked prehensile tail and hind feet with an opposable thumb.
14	dingo	a wild or half-domesticated dog with a sandy-coloured coat, found in Australia.
19	langur	a long-tailed arboreal Asian monkey with a characteristic loud call.
20	elk	another term for moose.
21	mustang	an American feral horse which is typically small and lightly built.
22	mare	the female of a horse or other equine animal.
23	colt	a young uncastrated male horse, in particular one less than four years old.
24	coyote	/kɔɪˈəʊti,kʌɪˈəʊti/ a wild dog that resembles the wolf, native to North America.
25	giraffe	/dʒɪˈrɑːf,dʒɪˈraf/ a large African mammal with a very long neck and forelegs.
26	zebra	/ˈzɛbrə,ˈziːbrə/ an African wild horse with black-and-white stripes and an erect mane.
27	gazelle	a small, slender antelope that typically has curved horns and a fawn-coloured coat with white underparts.
28	wildebeest	/ˈwɪldəbiːst,ˈvɪldəbiːst/ another term for gnu.
30	lioness	a female lion.
31	cub	the young of a fox, bear, lion, or other carnivorous mammal.
33	caribou	a large North American reindeer.
34	reindeer	a deer of the tundra and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America.
35	ox	a domesticated bovine animal kept for milk or meat; a cow or bull. Plural: oxen
36	goat	a hardy domesticated ruminant mammal that has backward-curving horns and (in the male) a beard.
37	terrier	a small dog of a breed originally used for turning out foxes and other burrowing animals from their earths.
38	hedgehog	a small nocturnal Old World mammal with a spiny coat and short legs, able to roll itself into a ball for defence.
39	pangolin	an African and Asian mammal that has a body covered with horny overlapping scales, a small head with an elongated snout, a long sticky tongue for catching ants and termites, and a tapering tail.
40	ocelot	a medium-sized wild cat that has an orange-yellow coat marked with black stripes and spots, native to South and Central America.
41	fawn	/fɔːn/ a young deer in its first year.
42	raccoon	a greyish-brown American mammal that has a foxlike face with a black mask and a ringed tail.

No	Name	Explanation
1	kookaburra	a very large Australasian kingfisher that feeds on terrestrial prey such as reptiles and birds.
2	woodpecker	a bird with a strong bill and a stiff tail, which climbs tree trunks to find insects and drums on dead wood to mark territory.
3	peacock	a male peafowl, which has very long tail feathers that have eye-like markings and can be erected and fanned out in display.
4	vulture	a large bird of prey with the head and neck more or less bare of feathers, feeding chiefly on carrion and reputed to gather with others in anticipation of the death of a sick or injured animal or person.
5	sea gull	a popular name for a gull.
6	toucan	/ˈtuːk(ə)n/ a tropical American fruit-eating bird with a massive bill and typically brightly coloured plumage.
7	mockingbird	a long-tailed songbird with greyish plumage, found mainly in tropical America and noted for its mimicry of the calls and songs of other birds.
8	dove	/dʌv/ a stocky bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, feeding on seeds or fruit. Doves are generally smaller and more delicate than pigeons, but many kinds have been given both names.
9	robin	a small Old World thrush related to the chats, typically having a brown back with red on the breast or other colourful markings.
10	wren	a small short-winged songbird found chiefly in the New World.
11	peregrine	a powerful falcon found on most continents, breeding chiefly on mountains and coastal cliffs and much used for falconry.
12	gosling	a young goose.

No	Name	Explanation
1	hermit crab	a crab with a soft asymmetrical abdomen, which lives in a cast-off mollusc shell for protection.
2	seal	a fish-eating aquatic mammal with a streamlined body and feet developed as flippers.
3	humpback	a baleen whale which has a hump (instead of a dorsal fin) and long white flippers.
4	orca	a killer whale.
5	narwhal	a small Arctic whale, the male of which has a long forward-pointing spirally twisted tusk developed from one of its teeth.
6	walrus	a large gregarious marine mammal related to the eared seals, having two large downward-pointing tusks and found in the Arctic Ocean.

No	Name	Explanation
1	toad	a tailless amphibian with a short stout body and short legs, typically having dry warty skin that can exude poison.
2	boa constrictor	a large snake, typically with bold markings, that kills by coiling around its prey and asphyxiating it, native to tropical America.
3	tadpole	a tailless amphibian with a short stout body and short legs, typically having dry warty skin that can exude poison.
4	reptile	a vertebrate animal of a class that includes snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, and tortoises.
5	newt	a small slender-bodied amphibian with lungs and a well-developed tail.
6	python	a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia.

No	Name	Explanation
1	cricket	an insect related to the grasshoppers but with shorter legs. The male produces a characteristic musical chirping sound.
2	firefly	a soft-bodied beetle related to the glow-worm, the winged male and flightless female of which both have luminescent organs.
3	gnat	/nat/ a small two-winged fly that resembles a mosquito.
4	centipede	a predatory myriapod invertebrate with a flattened elongated body composed of many segments.
5	termite	a small, pale soft-bodied insect that lives in large colonies with several different castes, typically within a mound of cemented earth.
6	wasp	a social winged insect which has a narrow waist and a sting and is typically yellow with black stripes.
7	katydid	/ˈkeɪtɪdɪd/ a large, typically green, bush cricket that is native to North America. The male makes a characteristic sound which resembles the name.