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Animals that Start with M

Mouse is a very common noun as well as moles, but there is a huge list of animal names that start with the letter M and you probably never heard about them. Here are some a few of them.

Mammals that start with the letter M

Mammal: Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered in hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk.

• “Hey Sam did you know that people are considered mammals?”

Macaque: A short tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

• Sally points threw the cage at the zoo, “Mommy that monkey has a short tail.” The mother chuckled and answered her daughter, “Hun that’s a macaque they are born with tiny tails and are normally in Africa.”

Macropodidae: Kangaroos; wallabies.

• An equally brief notice must suffice of the kangaroo tribe or Macropodidae, as some may call them.

Macrotus: A large-eared grayish bat of southern California and northwestern Mexico.

• Carful when you’re walking around at night you wouldn’t want any Macrotus In your hair. The old man chuckled at us as he said this.

Mink: Slender-bodied semi aquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur.

• The majority of these animals are mink; they were raised on fur factory farms.

Mirounga: Elephant seals.

• Don’t worry if you see a large mirounga swimming or lounging near the docks, they won’t harm you.

Mithan: ox of Southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of gaur.

• In Southeast Asia there’s an animal called mithan, their domesticated in farms.

Reptiles that start with the letter M

Mamba: Arboreal snake of central and southern America, whose bite is often fatal.

• Be careful walking through the high grass and woods there’s mamba’s littering the grounds and they can be lethal.

Massasauga: Pygmy rattlesnake found in moist areas from the great lakes to Mexico; feeds on mice and small amphibians.-small pygmy rattlesnake.

• Massasauga can also be found in Carolina and Georgia.

Masticophis: Whip snakes.

• A masticophis is often recognized by its long thin body, also they are non lethal to humans.

Birds that start with the letter M

Macaw: A long tailed brilliantly colored patriot of Central America and South America. It’s among the longest and showiest of Parrots.

• Miles’ favorite bird is the macaw because of its long and colorful tail.

Magpie:  A long-tailed black and white crow that utters a raucous chattering call.

• Everyday around five Sarah is startled by the raucous call from the magpie that tends to gather in her yard.

Mallard: Wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended from; widely distributed.

• Sarah is currently doing an essay on the wild non domestic ducks, which is named mallard.

Mamo: Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail; now extinct.

• There used to be small birds called mamo they are found in Mexico.

Manakin: Any numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behaviors.

• There are many different manakin birds in Central America and South America.

Marabou: The downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments. – Large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy under wing are used to trim garments.

• The factory uses marabou to get the process done a lot faster.

Insects and Critters that start with the letter M

Mallophaga: Biting lice.

• You can mostly find Mallophaga on birds, either wild or domestic.

Maduca: Moths whose larvae are tobacco hornworms or tomatoes hornworms.

• The maduca can be house pets for children.

Mantid: predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of large regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer.

• I once saw a mantid lying with its legs raised above him and I thought that it was dead.

Mastigoproctus: Giant whip scorpions.

• Unlike most scorpions a mastigoproctus has no venom glands, so they can’t sting you.

Mayfly: Slender insect with delicate memberanous wings having aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days.

• You can often find mayfly’s near fresh water; also they’re in the dragonfly family.

Mealworms: the larva of beetles of the family tenebrionidae.

• Some people like to eat mealworms because they have high protein content.