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Animals beginning with G

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

Head of a grey-skinned giant Galápagos tortoise chewing green leaves

Galápagos tortoiseChelonoidis niger

Slender light-brown gazelle with a white belly and ringed horns among grasses

Giant African land snail with a striped brown conical shell crawling on a green leaf

Giant African land snailLissachatina fulica

Giant oceanic manta ray seen from the front and side in blue water with broad fins spread

Giant oceanic manta rayMobula birostris

giant panda

Giant pandaAiluropoda melanoleuca

giraffe

GiraffeGiraffa spp.

goat

GoatCapra aegagrus hircus

Grey-brown round goby with a large head and high-set eyes resting on a bed of mussels

Goldfish (Carassius auratus) with orange scales

GoldfishCarassius auratus

goose

GooseAnser and Branta (geese)

gorilla

GorillaGorilla spp.

Silvery-blue gourami with a dark spot on its side and white-spotted fins

GouramiTrichopodus

Coiled grass snake, Natrix natrix, with pale patches behind the head

Grass snakeNatrix natrix

grasshopper

GrasshopperCaelifera

Great tit on a mossy branch showing white cheeks and the black stripe down its yellow breast

Great titParus major

great white shark

Great white sharkCarcharodon carcharias

grey heron

Grey heronArdea cinerea

Grey partridge with an orange face, grey breast and chestnut bars along its sides

Grey partridgePerdix perdix

ground squirrel

Ground squirrelSpermophilus citellus

A short-haired guinea pig with a rounded muzzle and small folded ears

Guinea pigCavia porcellus

guineafowl

GuineafowlNumida meleagris

gull

GullLaridae (gulls in several genera)

Male guppy with blue-green markings and a patterned yellow tail among aquatic plants

GuppyPoecilia reticulata