Animals That Start with B | List & Examples

There are many animals that start with “B.” This article contains a list of animal names that start or end with “B.”

Example: Animals that start with B in a sentence
While the bear foraged for berries in the forest, the beaver constructed its dam in the nearby river, and a bison wandered through the meadow.

Animals that start with B: List

Here’s a list of animals that start with “B”:

  • Baboon
  • Badger
  • Barnacle (crustacean related to lobsters, shrimps, and crabs)
  • Barracuda (fish)
  • Bat
  • Bear
  • Beaver
  • Bee
  • Beetle
  • Binturong (known as bearcat)
  • Bird
  • Bison
  • Boa constrictor (snake)
  • Bobcat
  • Bonobo
  • Buffalo
  • Bull
  • Bumblebee
  • Butterfly

You can also download this list of animals that start with “B” as a PDF.

Animals that start with “B” PDF

Note
Some difficult animal names with “B,” such as “binturong” and “barracuda,” can easily be misspelled. Use QuillBot’s free Grammar Checker to check your spelling.

Animals that end with B

Animals that end with “B” are quite rare. The only common one is “crab.” Other animal names that end with “B” are squab (baby pigeon) and lamb (baby sheep).

Animals with other letters

If you’re looking for animals that start with another letter, you can visit one of our other articles on animal names.

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Julia Merkus, MA

Julia has a bachelor in Dutch language and culture and two masters in Linguistics and Language and speech pathology. After a few years as an editor, researcher, and teacher, she now writes articles about her specialist topics: grammar, linguistics, methodology, and statistics.