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Animals beginning with W

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

wallaby

WallabyMacropodidae (wallabies in several genera)

walrus

WalrusOdobenus rosmarus

Grey warthog with curved tusks and facial warts on dry ground

WarthogPhacochoerus

Yellow-and-black wasp on a twig

WaspHymenoptera: several wasp families, including Vespidae

water shrew

Water shrewNeomys fodiens

weasel

WeaselMustela nivalis

Wels catfish (Silurus glanis) swimming underwater

Wels catfishSilurus glanis

Black male capercaillie with a fanned tail and red eyebrow during display

Western capercaillieTetrao urogallus

whale

Side view of a white-spotted whale shark swimming through blue water among smaller fish

Whale sharkRhincodon typus

white stork

White storkCiconia ciconia

White wagtail with a white face, black bib and grey back perched on a branch

White wagtailMotacilla alba

Dark-furred white-handed gibbon with a pale ring around its face at Philadelphia Zoo

White-handed gibbonHylobates lar

wild boar

Wild boarSus scrofa

wildcat

WildcatFelis silvestris (European wildcat)

wolf

WolfCanis lupus

Brown wolverine sitting in grass, showing rounded ears and a bushy tail

WolverineGulo gulo

woodpecker

WoodpeckerPicidae

Life-size model of a woolly mammoth with long brown fur and large curved tusks

Woolly mammothMammuthus