Can you name any animals that start with U? Although it’s a tough question to answer, there are actually more animals than you might think whose names do indeed begin with the letter U. Here they are:
Animals that start with U
- Uakari – A type of monkey found in the Amazon basin.
- Uganda kob – An antelope from sub-Saharan Africa.
- Uguisu – The Japanese name for the Japanese bush warbler bird.
- Uinta ground squirrel – A squirrel found in the western U.S.
- Ultimate shrew – A member of the shrew family from Kenya.
- Ulysses butterfly – A large butterfly native to Australia, Indonesia and the Pacific Islands.
- Umbrellabird – A bird found in Central and South American rainforests.
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat – A fruit bat found in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
- Unadorned rock-wallaby – An Australian rock-wallaby.
- Unalaska collared lemming – A rodent native to islands in the Aleutian Archipelago of Alaska.
- Underwood’s bonneted bat – A bat found in the southern U.S. and Central America.
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat – A bat species of Central America.
- Underwood’s pocket gopher – A rodent native to Costa Rica.
- Underwood’s water mouse – A Costa Rican rodent.
- Unexpected cotton rat – A rodent found in Ecuador.
- Ungava collared lemming – A lemming native to North America.
- Unicolored oldfield mouse – A Colombian rodent.
- Unicolored rice rat – A rodent native to the Amazonian rainforests.
- Unicolored tree rat – A spiny South American rat.
- Unstriped ground squirrel – A squirrel native to Africa.
- Unstriped tube-nosed bat – A megabat native to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and West Papua.
- Upupa – The Latin name for the hoopoe bird of Asia, Europe and North Africa.
- Ural field mouse – A rodent found mainly in Europe.
- Urartsk mouse-like hamster – A hamster native to Azerbaijan.
- Urial – A wild sheep native to central Asia.
- Uromastix – An African and Asian lizard.
- Usambara shrew – A mammal native to Tanzania.
- Ussuri shrew – A shrew from north-east Asia.
- Ussuri tube-nosed bat – An Asian vesper bat.
- Utah prairie dog – The smallest species of prairie dog found, as the name suggests, in Utah.
