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Everything About Animals

Animal glossary

Score axes and nicknames used across the animal atlas.

A compact reference for terms that appear on species pages — not a substitute for the full chapters.

Score axes

Speed Burst and travel speed relative to the other twenty-four species in this atlas.
Intelligence Problem-solving, social learning and sensory mapping, relative across the atlas.
Range How widely the species travels or occupies space — home range, migration, ocean basins.
Resilience How well populations rebound after pressure, relative across the atlas.
Cultural impact How deeply this animal has shaped language, ritual and everyday imagination.
Ecological role How much this species structures food webs, habitats or nutrient cycles.

Also called

🦅 Eagle true eagle · sea eagle · raptor
🦉 Owl strigiform · night raptor · hoot owl
🐧 Penguin spheniscid · flightless diver · tuxedo bird
🐦 Hummingbird trochilid · hummer · nectar sprite
🦩 Flamingo phoenicopterid · filter wader · pink wader
🦜 Parrot psittacine · hookbill · talking parrot
🪽 Albatross diomedeid · mollymawk · wanderer
🦢 Crane red-crowned crane · tancho · gruiform wader
🦈 Great white shark white shark · white pointer · Carcharodon
🐟 Salmon anadromous salmonid · Pacific salmon · Atlantic salmon
🐟 Atlantic bluefin tuna bluefin · hon-maguro · Thunnus thynnus
🐠 Clownfish anemonefish · Nemo fish · Amphiprion
🐴 Seahorse Hippocampus · sea pony · pipefish cousin
🎏 Koi nishikigoi · ornamental carp · living jewel
🐡 Pufferfish puffer · fugu · tetraodontid
⚡ Electric eel Electrophorus · poraquê · electric knifefish
🐅 Tiger Panthera tigris · stripe cat · sher
🦁 Lion Panthera leo · African lion · simba
🐘 African bush elephant savanna elephant · Loxodonta africana · tembo
🐺 Gray wolf grey wolf · timber wolf · Canis lupus
🐼 Giant panda panda bear · Ailuropoda · xiongmao
🐻 Polar bear Ursus maritimus · nanuq · ice bear
🦍 Gorilla western gorilla · Gorilla gorilla · pongo of old books
🐋 Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus · sulphur-bottom · great blue