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Animals that Start with P

Mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, even strange creatures are included in this nouns list. There is a wide variety of animal species that people couldn’t imagine. The following nouns start with the letter O and show some usage examples.

Mammals that start with P

Pagophilus: harp seals.

– The Pagophilus are beautiful arctic animals. It is a shame they are commercially hunted.

Peccary: nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America.

– Peccaries are facing extinction in Costa Rica due to poachers.

Pichiciego: very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck.

– The pichiciego is the rarest animal I saw. It looks like a lovely stuffed animal!

Potoroinae: rat kangaroos.

– The potorinae family is formed by small jumping marsupials that look like mice.

Priodontes: solely the giant armadillo.

– The priodontes is a huge armadillo! Like the size of a dog.

Reptiles that start with P

Pelycosaur: large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

– The class learned about the pelycosaur at the Museum of Natural History.

Phrynosoma: horned lizards.

– The Phrynosoma is hard to detect in the wild. It lives in the Sonoran desert and camouflages between rocks.

Pituophis: bull snakes.

– The Pituophis family includes eight subspecies of snakes. The truth is that snakes are not my favorite pets.

Potamophis: Ground snakes.

– The guide explained us that the black snake in the reptarium was a potamophis.

Pythoninae: Old World boas: pythons; in some classifications considered a separate family from Boidae.

– Wow! I never saw a pythoninae with such bright colors. A lime green skin and orange eyes. It was gorgeous.

Birds that start with P

Paradisaeidae: birds of paradise.

– It’s amazing how many beautiful birds live on the planet. One of them is the Paradisaeidae.

Peckerwood: bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects.

– Peckerwoods hammer trees’ trunks looking for food and shelter.

Pintail: long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers.

– A flock of pintails swims peacefully in the pond.

Popinjay: an archaic term for a parrot.

– The popinjay was perched on the branch looking at the sunset.

Porzana: spotted crakes.

– The small Porzana pecks into the water looking for food.

Insects and critters that start with P

Paleacrita: geometrid moths.

– A paleacrita got into the house and flew around the light for hours.

Phasmatidae: stick insects.

– The Phasmatidae is better known as “stick insect.” It is amazing how it resembles nature.

Pismire: social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during the breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers.

– Pismire are ferocious ants that devour their prey.

Polyergus: Amazon ants.

– The Polyergus are very big ants with a vibrant red color.