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Animals beginning with D

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

Large dark brown death’s-head hawkmoth with a yellowish skull-like pattern on its back

Death’s-head hawkmothAcherontia atropos

deer

dingo

DingoCanis familiaris (dingo); taxonomic treatment varies

Blue discus with a round body, red eye and fine fin markings

DiscusSymphysodon

Model of a dodo with a round grey-brown body, large hooked bill and yellow legs

DodoRaphus cucullatus

dog

DogCanis lupus familiaris

dolphin

DolphinDelphinidae and several river-dolphin lineages

domestic sheep

Domestic sheepOvis aries

donkey

DonkeyEquus africanus asinus

dragonfly

DragonflyAnisoptera (within Odonata)

dromedary

DromedaryCamelus dromedarius

duck

DuckAnatidae (ducks in several genera)

Grey dugong with a downturned muzzle in the Red Sea near Marsa Alam, Egypt

DugongDugong dugon