Here is a table giving you 71 animal names that have three letters in them. Also, I have provided meanings for each animal name listed. Time to learn!
| No. | 3-Letter Animal Name | Animal Details |
| 1 | Ani | A gloss-black and deep-billed bird with a long tail, belonging to the cuckoo family. |
| 2 | Ant | An almost-wingless, stinging insect that lives in colonies, and depends on a breeding queen(s). |
| 3 | Ape | A primate that doesn’t have a tail. The word is an umbrella that covers chimpanzees, gorillas, gibbons, and orang-utans. |
| 4 | Asp | A snake, specifically a viper. It has an upturned snout. It is also known as the Egyptian cobra. |
| 5 | Ass | Classic word for donkey |
| 6 | Auk | Also known to be of the alcid family. It is a small black and white bird. |
| 7 | Bat | It is the only mammal that can fly. Then, why can’t Batman fly? |
| 8 | Bee | Winged, yellow-black, nectar-loving honey makers over here! |
| 9 | Boa | A snake that operates by the means called constriction |
| 20 | Bok | Ever heard about Springbok? Well, the ‘bok’ there is a reference for an antelope. Jumping antelope – Springbok! |
| 21 | Bug | General name for insects – beetles, water scorpions, bat/stink/lace/coreid/plant bugs |
| 22 | Cat | Felis catus over here! You probably skipped this one because of its feline nature. |
| 23 | Cob | A small, well-built, stout horse. It has larger joints and strong bones. |
| 24 | Cod | Have you ever heard of cod liver oil? Cod is a common type of fish. |
| 25 | Cow | This one should have been in your mind already. Cows, are, you know, cows! |
| 26 | Cub | A young one of a lion (mostly), but it also refers to bear and wolf babies. |
| 26 | Dab | A can-be-eaten flatfish, native to Northern Europe. |
| 27 | Dam | The mother of any animal that is domesticated, such as a dog or a horse. |
| 28. | Doe | It can be the female of a couple of mammals like deer, kangaroos, and rabbits. |
| 29. | Dog | Man’s best friend. The best canine in the human world, and more so in the United States. |
| 30. | Dzo | A kind of cow. It is the progeny of crossbreeding a yak and the domesticated cow. |
| 31. | Eel | A snake-like fish that is best known for its electrocution powers. |
| 32. | Eft | A juvenile newt (you dig?) |
| 33. | Elk | The biggest mammal in the deer family. Talk about branch-like horns! |
| 34. | Emu | A heightened bird, little sister to the ostrich |
| 35. | Ewe | The female sheep |
| 36. | Fly | Nothing to read here. |
| 37. | Fox | A carnivore related to the dog, cunning to the bone. |
| 38. | Gar | A fish, native to North America. It has narrowly elongated jaws. |
| 39. | Gib | When your cat or ferret gets neutered (castrated), it gets baptized and becomes a gib. |
| 40. | Gnu | Do you say it as gh-nu or nu? Well, whichever it is, this is the wildebeest, in short. |
| 41. | Goa | A type of antelope that lives around the Tibetan plateau. |
| 42. | Hen | The female of chicken, or any other female fowl. |
| 43. | Hog | A reference for the family of mammals known as Suidae – pigs, warthogs, boars, etc. |
| 44. | Jay | Noisy and colorful birds that are of medium size. Many people exchange the word jay with the word magpie. |
| 45. | Kea | An olive-green bird of the parrot family found in New Zealand. |
| 46. | Kid | A young goat? That’s right. |
| 47. | Kit | The shortened form of the word kitten, which you already know. |
| 48. | Kob | An antelope native to Africa, belonging to the Reduncinae family. |
| 49. | Koi | A beautiful domesticated fish that looks like a clownfish |
| 49. | Man | This must be a funny one! Man is an animal – the highly intelligent mammal! |
| 50. | Moa | Although extinct, the moa was a flightless bird that sized the same as a turkey. |
| 51. | Mog | Short for moggy. This refers to a cat that does not belong to any specific breed. |
| 52. | Nag | When a horse becomes old and renders itself worn-out, it becomes a nag. |
| 53. | Nit | An insect – the nymph of a louse. |
| 54. | Olm | An amphibian – a salamander that does everything in its life underwater – eating, sleeping, and breeding. |
| 55. | Owl | This animal is looking at you right now – the freaky, wide-eyed bird. |
| 56. | Pen | Female swan |
| 57. | Pig | Is there anything to say here? |
| 58. | Pug | A Chinese breed of dogs – snubbed nose, square body, smoothly short hair, curled tail, and a wrinkled face. |
| 58. | Pup | The young one of a dog, wolf, shark, fish – name them! |
| 59. | Ram | Male sheep |
| 60. | Rat | Long-tailed rodent of…why am I even explaining this? |
| 61. | Ray | Weird looking underwater fishes. |
| 62. | Roc | Bird of prey, but not real – just a mythical creature. |
| 63. | Roe | Another dear deer, natively European. |
| 64. | Roo | Short for kangaroo |
| 65. | Sow | A pig or bear of the female kind. |
| 66. | Teg | When a sheep is two years old (human years), it’s a teg. |
| 67. | Tit | A small passerine bird that exists mainly in Africa and the Northern Hemisphere |
| 68. | Tui | Another passerine (or perching) bird is small in size. |
| 69. | Tup | Another name for ram (male sheep). Also, it refers to a castrated male sheep. |
| 70. | Ure | A wild cattle, one of the ancestors of cows. It is now extinct. |
| 71. | Yak | This one is a relative of the cow. It is found in the Himalayas, where it has been domesticated. |
Examples Of Animal Names That Have 4 Letters In Them
If you’ve found the three-letter animals interesting, here are 57 four-letter ones. If you can, look up the meaning of each word to know which animal it is.
- Bass: There are over 30 million bass fish in the world, and over 1 million in North America. Bass fish can be found in all of the world’s continents, and are most commonly found in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia.
- Bear
- Bird
- Boar
- Bull
- Carp
- Clam
- Crab
- Crow
- Deer
- Dove
- Duck
- Fawn
- Fish
- Flea
- Foal
- Fowl
- Frog
- Gnat
- Goat
- Guan
- Gull
- Hare
- Hawk
- Kite
- Kiwi
- Kudu
- Lark
- Lion
- Loon
- Lynx
- Mink
- Mite
- Mole
- Moth
- Mule
- Newt
- Orca
- Oryx
- Pike
- Pony
- Puma
- Rook
- Seal
- Slug
- Sole
- Swan
- Tahr (relative to sheep and goats)
- Tern
- Tick
- Toad
- Tuna
- Vole
- Wasp
- Wolf
- Worm
- Wren
Examples Of Animal Names That Have 5 Letters In Them
More animal names for you! And this time, each of the 137 names has 5-letters.
- Addax
- Adder
- Aguti (rodent)
- Ammon
- Ariel
- Bison
- Bitch
- Bobac (marmot)
- Bongo
- Booby
- Brock
- Bruin
- Bunny
- Burro
- Camel
- Cattle
- Chimp
- Chiru (Tibetian antelope)
- Civet
- Coati
- Cobra
- Coney
- Coypu
- Crane
- Crone
- Cuddy
- Daman
- Dhole
- Dingo
- Diver
- Dogie (a neglected calf)
- Drill
- Eagle
- Egret
- Eland
- Filly
- Finch
- Fitch
- Fossa
- Gayal (a semi-domesticated bovine)
- Gecko
- Genet
- Goose
- Goral
- Grebe
- Grice
- Heron
- Hinny (female donkey plus male horse)
- Hippo
- Horse
- Human
- Hutia
- Hyena
- Hyrax
- Indri
- Izard
- Jocko
- Kiang
- Kitty
- Koala
- Kyloe (highland cattle)
- Lemur
- Liger
- Llama
- Loris
- Magot (ape)
- Manul (small wild cat)
- Mhorr (type of gazelle)
- Moose
- Morse
- Mouse
- Nyala (antelope will spiral horns)
- Okapi
- Orang
- Oribi (small antelope)
- Otary (seal)
- Otter
- Ounce
- Panda
- Pekan (fisher)
- Perch
- Piggy
- Pitta
- Potoo (birds)
- Potto (a primate which has the area around its nostrils moist)
- Puppy
- Quail
- Ratel (badger-like)
- Raven
- Rhino
- Robin
- Royal
- Sable
- Sasin
- Serow (mammals that look like goats and antelopes at the same time)
- Shark
- Sheep
- Shoat
- Shote (a newly-weaned, young pig)
- Shrew
- Skink (lizards)
- Skunk
- Sloth
- Snail
- Snake
- Snipe
- Sorel
- Spade
- Spado (an animal that has gotten castrated)
- Squid
- Steer
- Stilt
- Stint
- Stirk (a bullock/heifer that is at least a year old)
- Stoat
- Stork
- Swift
- Swine
- Tabby
- Takin
- Tapir
- Tatou (a large-sized armadillo)
- Tiger
- Tigon
- Trout
- Urial (a wild sheep)
- Urson (a porcupine of North America)
- Vison
- Vixen
- Whale
- Whelp
- Yapok
- Zebra
- Zerda (archaic name for the fennec fox)
- Zibet (a large-sized civet)
- Zoril
- Zorro
Examples Of Animal Names That Have 6 Letters In Them (And Meanings)
Here are 164 animal names that are six-lettered. From common ones to rare ones, the list is rich. To make this read better, make sure you look up the meaning of each word.
Did you ask what an agouti is? Well, it is a guinea-pig kind of rodent. Solve the exercise since the first one has been done for you.
- Agouti
- Aliped
- Alpaca
- Angora
- Ankole (African cattle)
- Aoudad
- Argali
- Avocet
- Aye-aye
- Baboon
- Badger
- Bandar
- Barbet
- Barrow
- Beaver
- Beetle
- Beluga
- Bharal (blue sheep)
- Bobcat
- Borzoi
- Budgie
- Bulbul
- Burhel (Himalayan sheep)
- Caiman
- Canary
- Chacma (baboon)
- Chital
- Coaita (spider monkey)
- Colugo
- Condor
- Cosset
- Cougar
- Coyote
- Cuckoo
- Cuscus
- Darter
- Desman
- Dexter
- Dik-dik (small antelope)
- Dog-fox
- Donkey
- Dragon
- Dugong
- Duiker
- Duyker (medium-sized antelope)
- Ermine
- Falcon
- Fennec
- Ferret
- Fisher
- Foussa (looks like a puma)
- Fox-bat
- Galago (primate)
- Gelada
- Gerbil
- Gibbon
- Gibcat (neutered feline)
- Goblin
- Gopher
- Grison
- Grivet
- Guenon
- Hackee (red squirrel)
- Heifer
- Hog-rat
- Hogget
- Hoopoe
- Hornet
- Hornet,
- Howler
- Impala
- Indris
- Insect
- Inyala (an antelope)
- Jackal
- Jaguar
- Jerboa
- Jumart (what you get when you cross a cow and an ass)
- Kalong
- Kodiak
- Koulan (wild ass)
- Langur
- Lizard
- Macaco (primate)
- Malkin
- Malmag (tarsier)
- Mammal
- Mantis
- Margay
- Marmot
- Marten (weasel-like carnivore)
- Merino
- Messan (a pet dog)
- Moggie (a cat that does not belong to any breed)
- Monkey
- Motmot (near-passerine birds)
- Musk-ox
- Nereis (a kind of worm)
- Nilgai (blue bull)
- Numbat (a type of marsupial)
- Nutria
- Ocelot
- Olingo (a relative of the raccoon)
- Onager (a kind of ass)
- Oorial (a horned sheep)
- Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovibos (musk-ox)
- Pallah (or the impala)
- Parrot
- Petrel
- Pigeon
- Porker
- Possum
- Puffin
- Pygarg (sea eagle)
- Python
- Quagga
- Quokka
- Rabbit
- Racoon
- Red fox
- Reebok
- Rhesus
- Rodent
- Sagoin (primate)
- Salmon
- Sambar
- Sea ape
- Sea cow
- Serval
- Shrimp
- Sifaka (primate)
- Simian
- Simpai (primate)
- Skitter
- Spider
- Suslik (rodent)
- Taguan (flying squirrel)
- Tenrec
- Tapeti (cottontail rabbit)
- Teledu (a type of badger)
- Tenrec
- Tomcat
- Toucan
- Trogon
- Turaco
- Turkey
- Turtle
- Tusker
- Uakari (primate)
- Urchin
- Vermin
- Vervet (monkey)
- Vicuna
- Walrus
- Wapiti
- Warthog
- Weasel
- Wether (male sheep,)
- Wisent
- Wombat
- Wow-wow
- Yapock (water possum)
Conclusion
If you play animal crossword puzzles, this article should be a great resource for you. Answer this quick one: Which of the following is the relative of the llama?
a) Wapiti
b) Serval
c) Vicuna
d) Skitter
