Animal Names Starts With Letter: P

Animals that start with P span icy seas, rainforest canopies, and backyard ponds. Meet the black-and-white penguin braving polar waters; the powerful polar bear hunting on sea ice; and the poised puma padding through American mountains. Tropical forests echo with colorful parrots and slow-moving pandas browse bamboo in misty hills. Grasslands thunder with pronghorn and prairie dog colonies, while rivers hide armored piranhas and whiskered platypus with electric-sensing bills. Reefs flash with elegant parrotfish, and tidepools shelter spiny porcupinefish. Deserts and scrub host the clever pheasant and the spiky porcupine; night skies bring swooping pipistrelle bats. Look closer and you’ll spot camouflaged praying mantises, hardworking paper wasps, and soil-turning pill bugs. This “P” lineup includes carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores across polar seas, forests, grasslands, deserts, wetlands, rivers, reefs, and coasts. Browse the list below for species profiles—scientific names, habitats, diets, and conservation status—and explore the plentiful wildlife that begins with P.