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Dog
Domesticated species of canid
A domesticated descendant of the wolf, also called the domestic dog. Hunter-gatherers bred it selectively in the Late Pleistocene.
Wikidata · Photo: Markus Trienke, CC BY-SA 2.0
Animals · Curated list
Mammals: the 30 most written about
Dog, Cat, Horse and 27 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
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- 30
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- Fetched
- 2026-09-25
Mammals, ranked
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the mammal's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
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Cat
Small domesticated carnivorous mammal
Also called the domestic cat or house cat, a small carnivorous mammal that has been domesticated. It belongs to Felidae, the family of the order Carnivora whose members are also loosely called cats.
Wikidata · Photo: TeamK (Karin Laurila) https://pixabay.com/en/users/TeamK-222368/, CC0
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Horse
Animal
A domesticated hoofed mammal with one toe on each foot. It belongs to the family Equidae and is one of the two living subspecies of Equus ferus.
Wikidata · Photo: Mikel Ortega from Errenteria, Basque Country, Spain, with a retouche by Richard Bartz . See the original file here., CC BY-SA 2.0
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Lion
Large cat native to Africa and India
A large cat of the genus Panthera, now found only in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Its body is muscular and broad in the chest, its head short and rounded, its ears round, and its tail ends in a dark, hairy tuft.
Wikidata · Photo: GinaFranchi, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cattle
Large, domesticated, cloven-hooved herbivores
Large domesticated bovid ungulates, kept widely as livestock. Of the genus Bos they are the most widespread species, and they are prominent living members of Bovinae, the subfamily.
Wikidata · Photo: Keith Weller/USDA, Public domain
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Tiger
Species of large cat
A large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Asia. Its body is powerful and muscular, with a big head and paws and a long tail; its orange fur shades to white in places and carries black stripes, mostly vertical.
Wikidata · Photo: Seemaleena, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Pig
Domesticated omnivorous even-toed ungulate
Also called the hog or swine, a domesticated hoofed mammal, even-toed and omnivorous. It is called the domestic pig to tell it apart from the other species of the genus Sus.
Wikidata · Photo: Scott Bauer, USDA, Public domain
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Wolf
Species of canine
Also called the grey or gray wolf, a canine native to North America and Eurasia. Over thirty subspecies of Canis lupus are recognised, the dingo and the dog among them, though grey wolves in the popular sense are only the wild subspecies that occur naturally.
Wikidata · Photo: User:Mas3cf, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Leopard
Species of cat native to Africa and Asia
One of the five living species of cat in the genus Panthera. Its fur ranges from pale yellowish to deep golden, with dark spots clustered in rosettes.
Wikidata · Photo: Sumeet Moghe, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Wild boar
Species of mammal
Also called the wild swine, the Eurasian wild pig, the common wild pig or just the wild pig, a suid native to North Africa and much of Eurasia and introduced to Oceania and the Americas. It now has one of the widest ranges of any mammal, and is the most widespread suiform.
Wikidata · Photo: Valentin Panzirsch, CC BY-SA 3.0 at
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Polar bear
Species of bear native to the Arctic
A big bear whose home is the Arctic and the areas around it. It is a close relative of the brown bear, and the two can produce hybrid offspring.
Wikidata · Photo: Alan Wilson, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Red fox
Species of mammal
The biggest of the true foxes, and the member of the order Carnivora with the widest distribution. It is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, in most of Asia, Europe and North America, and in parts of North Africa.
Wikidata · Photo: ClaudiaTen, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cheetah
Large feline of the genus Acinonyx
A large feline, and the genus Acinonyx's one living species. A pursuit predator and the fastest animal on land, it can run at 93–104 km/h (58–65 mph); it is built for speed, with strong hindlimb muscles and a long lumbar spine.
Wikidata · Photo: James Temple, CC BY 2.0
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Hippopotamus
Species of large semi-aquatic mammal
Often called the hippo, and more fully the common, Nile or river hippopotamus, a big mammal of sub-Saharan Africa that lives partly in water. The family Hippopotamidae has only two living species: this one and the pygmy hippopotamus.
Wikidata · Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Giant panda
Species of bear
Also called the panda bear or just the panda, a species of bear found only in China. It is known for its white coat, with black patches on the shoulders, legs, ears and around the eyes.
Wikidata · Photo: J. Patrick Fischer, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Northern giraffe
Proposed species of giraffe
Also called the three-horned giraffe, a giraffe species native to North Africa.
Wikidata · Photo: Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Brown bear
Large bear native to Eurasia and North America
A large bear native to North America and Eurasia. Among land carnivorans, only its nearest relative, the polar bear, matches its size; the polar bear varies far less in size and is a little bigger on average.
Wikidata · Photo: DataBase Center for Life Science (DBCLS), CC BY 4.0
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Snow leopard
Species of large felid
A felid of the genus Panthera. Its thick fur, whitish to grey, has black spots on the head and neck and bigger rosettes on the back, the flanks and the bushy tail.
Wikidata · Photo: Bernard Landgraf, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Water buffalo
Species of large bovine
Also called the domestic, Asian or Asiatic water buffalo, a large domesticated bovine that originated in South and Southeast Asia and is descended from the wild water buffalo. It is now kept in other regions as well, among them Italy, the Balkans, Australia, the Americas and parts of Africa.
Wikidata · Photo: Fabian Roudra Baroi, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jaguar
Large cat native to the Americas
A large cat, and the one living member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. Its fur, pale yellow to tan, is covered in spots that become rosettes along the sides; some jaguars have a melanistic coat, still spotted.
Wikidata · Photo: Thiagomarcelcampi, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Moose
Largest species of deer
Also called the elk, the tallest, largest and heaviest living deer in the world, and the only living species of the genus Alces. In North America it is also the tallest land animal, and the second-largest, with only the American bison outweighing it.
Wikidata · Photo: Ryan Hagerty, Public domain
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Cougar
Wild cat species native to the Americas
Also called the puma, mountain lion, catamount or panther, a big feline of the Americas. It lives in North, Central and South America: no wild land mammal of the Western Hemisphere is more widely distributed, and few anywhere are more widespread.
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European badger
Species of mustelid
Also called the Eurasian badger, a badger of the family Mustelidae native to Europe, West Asia and parts of Central Asia. Its wide range and large, stable population, thought to be growing in some regions, put it in the least concern category of the IUCN Red List.
Wikidata · Photo: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Least weasel
Species of mammal
Also called the little weasel, the common weasel or just the weasel, the smallest member of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae and of the order Carnivora. Native to North Africa, North America and Eurasia, it has been introduced to São Tomé, the Azores, Crete, Malta and New Zealand.
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Eurasian otter
Species of carnivore
Also known as the European otter, the common otter, the Old World otter, or the Eurasian or European river otter, a semiaquatic mammal native to the Maghreb and Eurasia. Of all the otters (the subfamily Lutrinae, within the weasel family, Mustelidae) it is the most widely spread, living along the coasts and waterways of Europe, of parts of North Africa and of much of Asia.
Wikidata · Photo: 김진환, Korean National Institute of Biological Resources, KOGL Type 1
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Neanderthal
Extinct species of human
An extinct group of archaic humans who lived in Europe and in Western and Central Asia in the Middle to Late Pleistocene. They died out roughly 40,000 years ago as modern humans (Cro-Magnons) moved in, though Neanderthals in Gibraltar may have survived thousands of years more.
Wikidata · Photo: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0
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House mouse
Most common species of mice
A small rodent of the family Muridae, with a pointed snout, big rounded ears and a long tail that is almost hairless. Few species of the genus Mus are as abundant.
Wikidata · Photo: DataBase Center for Life Science (DBCLS), CC BY 4.0
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Reindeer
Species of deer
Also called the caribou, a deer found all around the pole, native to the Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal and mountain regions of North America, Siberia and Northern Europe. It is the only member of the genus Rangifer.
Wikidata · Photo: Dean Biggins (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), Public domain
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How this list was made
Every Wikidata item that is a species of mammal, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 30 are shown.
Kept by hand
These belong on the list but Wikidata does not file them where the query looks:
- Dog — Wikidata files domestic animals apart from the tree of species the query walks, so it cannot reach them.
- Cat — Wikidata files domestic animals apart from the tree of species the query walks, so it cannot reach them.
- Horse — Wikidata files domestic animals apart from the tree of species the query walks, so it cannot reach them.
- Cattle — Wikidata files domestic animals apart from the tree of species the query walks, so it cannot reach them.
- Sheep — Wikidata files domestic animals apart from the tree of species the query walks, so it cannot reach them.
- Pig — Wikidata files domestic animals apart from the tree of species the query walks, so it cannot reach them.
Fetched from Wikidata on 2026-09-25. Each description is this site's summary of the entry's Wikipedia article, which its name links to: the wording is ours, the facts are Wikipedia's, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. To correct an entry, correct it there; the next refresh carries the change.
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