Animals Start with W: 35+ Animal List, Definition & Example

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom of Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, can move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an onto genetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. (Animals start with W)

Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but we have estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total.

In this article, we will list down some animals start with W.

Animals Start with W

Sr. No.	Animals	Definitions
1	Wallaby	A wallaby is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries.
2	Walleye Fish	The walleye, also called the yellow pike or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States.
3	Walrus	The walrus is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere.
4	Wandering Albatross	The wandering albatross, snowy albatross, white-winged albatross or goonie is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean.
5	Warthog	The common warthog is a wild member of the pig family found in grassland, savanna, and woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.
6	Wasp	The Vespidae are a large, diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps and many solitary wasps.
7	Water Buffalo	The water buffalo, also called the domestic water buffalo or Asian water buffalo, is a large bovid originating in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
8	Water Dragon	The Australian water dragon, which includes the eastern water dragon and the Gippsland water dragon subspecies, is an arboreal agamid species native to eastern Australia from Victoria northwards to Queensland.
9	Water Vole	The water voles are large voles in the genus Arvicola. They are found in both aquatic and dry habitat through Europe and much of northern Asia.
10	Weasel	Weasels are mammals of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae.
11	Welsh Corgi	The Pembroke Welsh Corgi is a cattle herding dog breed that originated in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
12	West Highland Terrier	The West Highland White Terrier, commonly known as the Westie, is a breed of dog from Scotland with a distinctive white harsh coat with a somewhat soft white undercoat.
13	Western Lowland Gorilla	The western lowland gorilla is one of two Critically Endangered subspecies of the western gorilla that lives in montane, primary and secondary forest and lowland swampland in central Africa in Angola.
14	Whale Shark	The whale shark is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species.
15	Whippet	The Whippet is a British dog breed of medium size.
16	White Hawk	The white hawk is a bird of prey breeding in the tropical New World of the family Accipitridae.
17	White Rhinoceros	The white rhinoceros, white rhino or square-lipped rhinoceros is the largest extant species of rhinoceros.
18	White Tiger	The white tiger or bleached tiger is a leucistic pigmentation variant of the Mainland tiger.
19	White-Faced Capuchin	The Panamanian white-faced capuchin, also known as the Panamanian white-headed capuchin or Central American.
20	Wild Boar	The wild boar, also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa.
21	Wild Horse	The wild horse is a species of the genus Equus, which includes as subspecies the modern domesticated horse as well as the endangered Przewalski’s horse.
22	Wild Turkey	The wild turkey is an upland ground bird native to North America, one of two extant species of turkey, and the heaviest member of the order Galliformes.
23	Wildebeest	Wildebeest, also called gnu, are antelopes of the genus Connochaetes and native to Eastern and Southern Africa.
24	Wolf	The wolf, also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.
25	Wolf Eel	The wolf eel is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Anarhichadidae, the wolf fishes.
26	Wolf Spider	Wolf spiders are members of the family Lycosidae. They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight.
27	Wolffish	The Atlantic wolffish, also known as the seawolf, Atlantic catfish, ocean catfish, devil fish, wolf eel, woof or sea cat, is a marine fish of the wolffish family Anarhichadidae, native to the North Atlantic Ocean.
28	Wolverine	The wolverine, also referred to as the glutton, carcajou, or quickhatch, is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae.
29	Wombat	Wombats are short-legged, muscular quadrupedal marsupials that are native to Australia.
30	Woodlouse	A woodlouse is an isopod crustacean from the polyphyletic suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda.
31	Woodpecker	Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers.
32	Woolly Mammoth	The woolly mammoth is an extinct species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch.
33	Woolly Monkey	The woolly monkeys are the genus Lagothrix of New World monkeys, usually placed in the family Atelidae.
34	Wrasse	The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored.
35	Wyoming Toad	The Wyoming toad or Baxter’s toad is an extremely rare amphibian that exists only in captivity and within Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming in the United States.

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