In addition to the contents of Animal Alphabet, here are some fun facts about the animals involved!
Alligators are incredible swimmers, with a strong tail and ripples along their back they stealthily move through the water with ease.
American alligator
The giant flying fox is the largest type of bat in the world! Flying around at night to find fruit for dinner.
Giant golden-crowned flying fox
The sally lightfoot crab is known for its nimble movements and jumping over rocky terrain.
Sally lightfoot crab
This energetic dog is known for chasing critters down holes, which might explain their digging to the bottom of your laundry!
Jack russell terrier
Electric eels are able to generate electricity and stun other animals, they are also not a true eel and are actually a fish.
Electric eel
World’s fastest animal! This falcon flies high up into the sky and then dives down reaching the fastest speeds of any animal.
Peregrine falcon
Goats are curious creatures. With a playful nature they like to climb up and onto anything in sight!
Alpine goat
Herons wade slowly through the water looking for fish, but don’t blink as they’ll strike with their incredible necks in a flash!
Tricolored heron
Found only in the Galápagos islands, these unique reptiles dive deep underwater looking for algae to eat.
Marine iguana
Jaguars have beautiful spots helping camouflage them in the forests and jungles they live in, they also take a long time to draw!
Jaguar
Living in Australia, kangaroos bounce around on two powerful legs which they occasionally use for kicking!
Red kangaroo
Lynx are mainly nocturnal so they relax and sleep in the day time, then get up at night to search for food.
Canada lynx
Moose are huge! They’re so big even grizzly bears try to avoid upsetting one.
Alaska-Yukon moose
Living mostly on land, newts will occasionally seek out water, using the smell of water to guide them.
Fire belly newt
Sea otters float with a rock on their bellies to smash open stubborn clams and other shell fish to eat!
Sea otter
With large expandable pouches in their bill, pelicans can scoop up fish similar to using a fishing net!
Brown pelican
Quails typically hollow out their nests in the ground hidden by dense brush and shrubbery.
Mountain quail
In the far north of the world, reindeer thrive in the most wintery of places, specialized for life in the snow!
Reindeer
Salmon spend years in the ocean before returning home, swimming up long and winding rivers to find their place of birth.
Sockeye salmon
They may be slow, but tortoises have tough shells to protect them, so they can take their time and live to be very old!
Yellow-footed tortoise
Sea urchins are covered in spines, used as a defence and occasionally to walk around on.
Pacific purple sea urchin
With an extraordinary sense of smell, these vultures roam the skies, gliding on the wind until they smell some lunch!
Turkey vulture
Warthogs roll around in the mud to cool off and coat themselves in a layer of sunscreen and camouflage.
Warthog
Found in the Amazon basin and coastal rivers, x-ray tetra swim around in large schools.
X-ray tetra
Yaks reside in mountain regions, with thick woolly coats to keep them warn during the freezing winters!
Yak
Zebras live in great herds. Their brilliant coloring makes it hard to spot an individual zebra in the dense crowd of stripes!
Plains zebra