About Animals

Animals is a free, simple guide to 122 well-known animals for students, parents and curious readers. Each animal has a page with a short description, where it lives, what it eats, what its young and a group are called, how scientists classify it, and whether it is in danger.

Where the content comes from

• Descriptions, diet, habitat, names of young and of groups: written by us, from general knowledge, and kept to facts that are widely documented.
• Classification (phylum, class, order, family, genus): the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, through the GBIF species service, licensed CC BY 4.0. GBIF Secretariat, GBIF.org.
• Conservation status: the IUCN Red List category recorded for each species in Wikidata, which is released under CC0. The IUCN Red List is the authority, and its latest assessment may differ from what is shown here.

For reptiles and ray-finned fishes, where the GBIF list leaves out the class used in school books, we show the usual class (Reptilia, Actinopterygii). Classification and status were fetched on 11 November 2026. The pictures are standard emoji drawn by your own device, so they look a little different on each phone or computer.

A note on group names

Many names for groups of animals, such as "a parliament of owls", are old, playful terms from English tradition. They are fun to know, but scientists and most people simply say flock, herd or group.

Who makes it

This site is part of ShareYourGroup, a family of free sites about the things people share, send and do together. It is free to use and needs no login. Advertisements pay for the hosting and the work.

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