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Animals beginning with B

Browse the animals in the encyclopedia whose English names begin with B.

baboon

badger

BadgerMeles; Taxidea; Mellivora

Adult bald eagle with a white head, hooked yellow bill and dark brown plumage

Bald eagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus

Common wombat seen from the side with its face turned towards the camera

Bare-nosed wombatVombatus ursinus

bat

bear

A central bearded dragon with a triangular head, sturdy limbs and a long tapered tail resting on a rock

Bearded dragonPogona vitticeps

beaver

BeaverCastor fiber; Castor canadensis

bee

BeeApis (honey bees)

Large grey beluga sturgeon with a short snout, barbels and rows of bony plates swimming in blue water

Beluga sturgeonHuso huso

Beluga whale facing the camera underwater, showing its rounded forehead and pectoral flippers

Beluga whaleDelphinapterus leucas

bengal fox

Bengal foxVulpes bengalensis

bengal tiger

Bengal tigerPanthera tigris

Blue and red betta fish with long, spread fins in an aquarium

Betta fishBetta splendens

bison

BisonBison bison; Bison bonasus

Black mamba with raised head and the dark interior of its open mouth visible

Black mambaDendroaspis polylepis

black panther

Black pantherPanthera pardus or Panthera onca (melanistic individuals)

Flat, sand-coloured turbot with both eyes on its upper side lying on the seabed

Black Sea turbotScophthalmus maeoticus

Black stork with dark glossy plumage, a white belly and a red bill

Black storkCiconia nigra

Glossy black widow spider with a red hourglass mark on its abdomen

Black widow spiderLatrodectus

blackbird

BlackbirdTurdus merula

blanford's fox

Blanford’s foxVulpes cana

Yellowish-brown blotched snake with dark markings, head raised

Blotched snakeElaphe sauromates

blue whale

Blue whaleBalaenoptera musculus

boa

BoaBoa constrictor

Young black-furred bonobo with large eyes resting against its mother in the forest

BonoboPan paniscus

bowhead whale

Bowhead whaleBalaena mysticetus

Dark grey Ancistrus with pale spots resting on gravel at the bottom of an aquarium

Bristlenose plecoAncistrus

brown bear

Brown bearUrsus arctos

Brown shield-shaped stink bug with white-banded antennae on a green leaf

Brown marmorated stink bugHalyomorpha halys

Brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) with long antennae and a segmented abdomen

Brown shrimpCrangon crangon

Brown trout (Salmo trutta), showing its spotted body and body shape.

Brown troutSalmo trutta

A green budgerigar with a yellow head, blue cere and black throat spots

BudgerigarMelopsittacus undulatus

buffalo

BuffaloBubalus; Syncerus

bumblebee

BumblebeeBombus

butterfly

ButterflyPapilionoidea (within Lepidoptera)