Question came up today, how many animals (excluding sex related i.e: Nanny Goat and Species, i.e: Nightingale) can you think of beginning with the letter "N".

Maybe some of you guys can help me out!!!

The only one we could come up with was Newt!!!!!!!:(

NIT - do I get a prize?:ok:

Flypro - No, mine's bigger than yours...Narwhal or narwhale (http://www.arcticartsales.com/narwhal.html)

Bern Oulli,

That doesn't count I am afraid, under the rules, the animal is a Whale, which unfortunatly doen't begin with N!! ;)

Natterjack
Nautilus
Nematode
errr hmmm, will get back to you.
Not sure what you mean by the Narwhale not being valid because its a whale? by that reconing a Newt is a Amphibian and therefore doesn't count either.
:confused:

NikNak - It's African

Nilgai:Large antelope native to India. Species Boselaphus tragocamelus.

Numbat: Australian marsupial anteater. Species Myrmecobius fasciatus.

Nyala: Antelope found in southern Africa. Species Tragelaphus angasi, family Bovidae.

How about :

Numbat

`tis a marsupial termite eater from Oz

ooops, Orac beat me by a nano second

Onan,

Can you provide any evidence of the existance of this animal. Just done a google search, and can't find anything!!!!!:ugh:

Onan,
I thought NikNak's came from Paddywhack!!
:p :p

Neon Tetra (a tropical fish)

Neon Tetra is a fish, that begins with F!!!! :O :O

Nandu (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nandu) (Pterocnemia pennata)

another:
Northern Right Whale, Eubalaena glacialis
Nurse Shark, cept it's a fish...


Ozzy

Can you provide any evidence

Erm...No :(

Neanderthal...I'm pretty sure I know a few :}

How about newt?

Errrr...

A Nelephant?
A Nostrich?
A Nantelope?

etc,etc..................:}

Nerd?

They can sometimes be real party ANIMALS!

Especially after 2 beers

Nymph? I'd like to get my hands around one after only 2 beers...:E

Caslance

You forgot the most widespread one :
A Nanimal !

Nutria

.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ngifs/Nutria_bw.GIF

There is an animal called an "N".

It begins with a negg.

Which began with an "N"

Nellie the Elephant ?

The Nauga, of course. Source of the fabric known as Naugahyde, often used as seat covering &c in airplanes &c (gotta keep this Aeronautical).

Nitwit - a "brand" :rolleyes: of horse that Basil Fawlty once bet on :O

'Numpty' - large stupid ineffectual animal. Occasionally connected with aviation.

Norman, my Guinea Pig.

nudibranch, nematode, nighthawk

I agree with Onan - Niknak - a genuine critter (but gawd knows where from - thought all animals came from Chester Zoo).

What about the shoe-eating mammal, commonly known as "Naughty Puppy!"?

I know a girl called Nicola who is supposed to be pretty animal :}

Does "Nightingale" count?

Nycticebus pygmaeus (lesser slow loris)
Nyctimene robinsoni (Queensland tube-nosed fruit bat)
Notharchus macrorhynchos macrorhynchos (white-necked puffbird)

Next door's dog.
Noisy b@<hidden> (ooh that begins with N too).

Noo, or Brindled Wildbeeste.

I think is spelt Gnu, but I don't gno.

Nautilus.

I mean you can't have a Nautilus shell if you don't have an actual Nautilus can you?

Ned, one of the cats that lives with me.
Ne-ne or Hawaiian goose
Neopilina, class Monoplacophora, phylum Mollusca.
Neuroptera, lacewings and alder flies.
Newfoundland, naffing big dog.
Noctiluca, marine dinoflagellate protozoan.
Nummulite, DEAD. Large coin-shaped fossil composed of numerous whorls coiled in a plane spiral.
Nun moth, Liparis monarcha.

One has already claimed the Nautilus Mr Onan, did you know the Nautilus can leave its shell if it chooses to do so, but it never chooses to do so.
Which begs the question,how do they know the Nautilus can leave its shell if it has never been seen sans shell, hmmmm?
:rolleyes:
One has one of said Nautilus's ancesters on ones book shelf, tiz an Ammonite, named after the Egyptian god Ammon Ra, he of the curly horns, it has been dead a long long time though,so one cannot try and pry it out of its shell.
:cool:

Lobsters too. They moult their shells several times in their lifetime. To do this, they pull their claw meat through the wrist of their claw shell. Every now and then one of them has a claw a little too fat for this operation to be a scuuess. :ugh:

Also, every part of the shell is shed, including the lining of the stomach, the inside of the mouth etc etc :yuk:


Someone has recently written a VERY interesting book about the lobster. :8

Therein the Nautilus is one up on Mr lobster,he does not have to leave his shell and risk being devoured, he simply constructs anothe chamber on the front of the existing shell, willy old critter is yer Nautilus, he has been around for a long long time in one guise or another, yer lobster is a relative newcomer.
:cool:

I win easily

Neandathal

Nycticebus pygmaeus

So that's the game, eh?

Novasuccinea n. sp. minnesota a --the Minnesota Pleistocene Succineid. A snail which lives in Minnesota, Iowa, and Manitoba. Jerricho might be seen, tiny fork in hand, in pursit of the little devils near the bases of limestone cliffs in the parks of the "Peg."

Nigger? (uh oh, here the mods coming pounding down the pprune halways now, quick hide the sheets)

Tough topic

Cheers
Wino

The Numbat

Western Australia's mammal emblem.
http://www.australianwildlife.org/extinction/images/numbat.jpg
twenty eight

Nag
nahoor
nandu
napu
narwhal
nasalis
natterjack
neat
nilgai
noctule
nowt
nyala
nylghau

Ne-ne or Hawaiian goose


Yup. Mad Monk got that right.

http://www.aloha-hawaii.com/hawaii/nene/

:bored: Nanny-goat!!!

Noggin the Nod

A Norwegian mammal


Sir George Cayley

Nine pandas............:}

Nightjar - no not the last pint before closing.

http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/nightjar.htm

Rushy