Animal Names Starts With Letter: V

Animals that start with V span sky, scrub, and sea. Meet soaring vultures, nature’s cleanup crew; swift vicuñas and rock-hopping viscachas of the Andes; and playful vervet monkeys in African woodlands. Forest floors rustle with nimble voles and the nectar-sipping violet-backed starling flashes in the canopy, while deserts hide coiled vipers and tiny viper geckos. Night brings the infamous vampire bat (a delicate blood specialist) and deep oceans glow with needle-toothed viperfish. Coasts and reefs host grazing vegetarian piranhas’ cousins like veja? (skip), better: velvet crabs and schooling yellowtail fusiliers? starts with V? No. Use velvetfish and hardy venus clams along sandy shallows. Conservation stories stand out with the critically endangered vaquita porpoise of the Gulf of California. This “V” lineup covers carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores across mountains, savannas, deserts, forests, wetlands, rivers, reefs, and open oceans. Browse below for profiles with scientific names, habitats, diets, and conservation status.