Animals that start with E

E spans the widest size range of any letter here. The elephant is the largest animal on land, while the Etruscan shrew, also on this page, is the smallest mammal by weight, with a heart that can beat up to 1,500 times a minute. The eel earns its place for a different reason: after centuries of study, nobody has ever observed two European eels breeding.

6 animals in the library start with E, from the eagle to the Etruscan shrew. Most of them live in Africa and Asia.