Animals that start with A

The letter A opens almost every animal list, and the aardvark is usually the reason. It is one of the very few English words that begins with a double a. The animals here range from the African wild dog to the alpaca, the anaconda to the ape. A is also unusually strong on dog breeds, which is why the akita and the Alaskan husky sit alongside wild species on this page.

17 animals in the library start with A, from the aardvark to the ape. Most of them live in Africa and North America.