20 Carnivores Animals Names in English with Properties

In this lesson we have discussed Carnivores Animals names in detail. This lesson is quite important for ESL students who want to learn English and improve their vocabulary skills. Each and every word of this lesson is explained with proper examples.

What are Carnivores Animals?

Carnivores are animals that survive on eating meat as their primary food source. Animals such as tigers, lions and wolves are carnivores. Though some people consider fish to be Meat eaters but scientifically fish cannot be considered as true carnivores because they only eat dead animal bodies which don’t have much nutritional value.

Carnivores usually have these characteristics: Sharp teeth for tearing and killing prey, Crushing molars to break bones, A short digestive tract which quickly passes food into the small intestine, An acute sense of smell, etc.

List of Carnivores in Detail

Lion

The lion is a carnivorous animal that lives in Africa, Asia and some parts of India as well. It is the second largest animal in the cat family. Its head and body length is around 4-6 feet and its tail length ranges from 2-3 feet. Male lions are larger than females. Lions typically weigh between 330 and 550 pounds (150 – 250 kilograms).

Badger

A Badger is a carnivorous animal. It has heavy forelimbs and enlarged teeth, particularly the sharp canines and carnassials that are used to shear meat. A male badger is called a boar, a female badger is called a sow, and young badgers are called kits.

Fox

The fox in the narrow sense is any of 27 species of omnivorous mammals belonging to the Canidae family. The animal most commonly called a fox in the Western world is the Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) but different species of foxes can be found on almost every continent.

Frog

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura.

Tiger

Tigers are carnivorous big cats that live in Asia and parts of Eastern Europe and West Asia. The size of the tiger varies by species: Bengal and Siberian tigers are the two largest subspecies, male tigers are on average larger than female, and the Sumatran tiger is the smallest species. The Tiger Shark can be up to 10 feet long.

Turtle

A turtle is a reptile in the order Testudines (the crown group of the superorder Chelonia), characterised by having a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs that acts as a shield.

Seal

A seal is any of the carnivorous aquatic mammals in the families Odobenidae (the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals), and Phocidae (true seals). There are 33 extant species of seal, and more than 50 extinct species have been described from fossils.

Killer Whale

A killer whale is a large, dolphin-like predator that feeds on fish, stingrays, squid and seals. Killer whales are found in all oceans of the world. They are most common along the coast which they travel together in pods for most of their lives.

Chicken

A chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird.

Dolphin

A dolphin is any member of the widely distributed family Delphinidae, the smallest of the oceanic dolphins. There are almost 40 species of dolphin in 17 genera. They vary in size from 1.2 m and 40 kg, up to 9.5 m and 10 tonnes.

Lion

The lion is a carnivorous animal that lives in Africa, Asia and some parts of India as well. It is the second largest animal in the cat family. Its head and body length is around 4-6 feet and its tail length ranges from 2-3 feet. Male lions are larger than females. Lions typically weigh between 330 and 550 pounds (150 – 250 kilograms).

Cougar

The cougar, also known as the puma, mountain lion or panther, is a large cat of the family Felidae, native to the Americas. It is an agility specialist and a stalk-and-ambush predator capable of killing large prey due in part to its athletic ability which far exceeds that of other felines.

Raccoon

The raccoon, sometimes spelled racoon, also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon and colloquially as coon, is a medium-sized mammal native to North America. As it is an omnivore, it eats primarily fruit and invertebrates but also periodically feeds on small mammals, reptiles or amphibians such as snakes or frogs.

Possum

The possum is any of about 70 small- to medium-sized arboreal marsupial species in suborder Phalangeriformes native…

Anteater

An anteater is a mammal, similar in shape to a bear with a long snout and bushy tail, found in Central and South America. It is the only extant form of the subfamily Myrmecophaginae, one of three subfamilies of the family Cyclopedidae.

Dingo

The Dingo is generally an apex predator in Australia’s ecosystem. While there are few studies on dingoes, their population size is controlled by ungulate prey population dynamics, competition with other predators and human intervention.

Camel

A camel is an even-toed ungulate within the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as humps on its back. The two most common types of camel are the dromedary (the Arabian camel) and the Bactrian (two-humped) camel.

Liger

The liger is the largest known cat breed with a typical weight of around 200 kg and at least . It is only surpassed by the Alaskan Malamute which has been measured up to.

Crane

A crane is a large, tall flightless bird with a long neck and legs and the largest extant flying bird by height.

Crocodile

Crocodiles or true crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Crocodiles tend to congregate in freshwater habitats such as rivers, lakes, wetlands and sometimes in brackish water.

Dinosaur

A dinosaur is any species of an animal from the taxonomic class of reptiles that first appeared during the Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. Many types of dinosaurs lived on land, while many others lived in the ocean.

Duck

Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. Ducks are divided between several subfamilies in the Anatidae family; they do not represent a monophyletic group (the group of all descendants of a single common ancestral species) but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered ducks.