List of known animals

Menagerie in the Park of Versailles at the time of King Louis XIV.

The list of well-known animals names well-known animal individuals of different animal species with their proper names , who live or have lived and achieved fame in different ways, through literature, through art, through the press and through film.

This does not include fabulous or mythological animals (see the list of fictional animals ) and also not the animals invented in literature and film, in comics or in advertising (see the list of fictional animals ). The well-known horses , dogs and cats are also guided separately .

The list does not claim to be complete, but is designed to supplement. It should first compile the well-known animals represented in Wikipedia with an article, but can also include not yet specifically described here, for which a separate article would be conceivable.

Legend

Albrecht Dürer : Brown hare . Watercolor , 25 cm × 22.5 cm ; Albertina (Vienna)

In the table, the animals can be grouped by species and by century using the second column .

In addition, the table has another grouping option in the husbandry column , which allows the animals to be called up with regard to the goals and motives of the type of existence assigned to them by humans . This column is differentiated as follows:

The animals that were used in the context of official or functional activities, such as the baboon Jack as an assistant to a South African track keeper, are grouped as assistance animals .

Sorted as research animals are animals used in research and science or specially guarded in this regard, such as the bitch Laika , the first creature on earth to enter space.

As pets , the animals that excited by their owners, usually public figures and politicians, past and present special public interest, such as are summarized reichshund Otto von Bismarck.

As ruler of animals declared are animals in exclusive since early modern times to the early 19th century by emperors, kings, princes and popes menageries were held, such as Hanno the elephant of Pope Leo X.

The animals that have been publicly shown by animal showmen since the 17th century are grouped as fairground animals, which were received in a special way and went down in the annals, such as the rhinoceros Clara , on a European tour in the 18th century.

Animals are recorded as media animals that aroused public sympathy and entered the literature through their special mention in the press, radio and television or through word of mouth, such as Bruno , the "problem bear" from 2006. Animal actors are also featured in this section and television that have become known by name as individuals, such as the German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin , a successful film dog.

The circus animals are animals that were or are housed in a circus and that attracted public attention in a special way, such as Tuffi , a young elephant that fell from the Wuppertal suspension railway in 1950.

The animals that were or are at home in zoological gardens and that have become known as individual animals beyond their location, such as Knut , a Berlin polar bear, are named as zoo animals .

list

Surname	Art	attitude	year- hundred	Lifetime	Remarks
Abul Abbas	elephant	Ruling animal	09th century	† 810	Gift of Harun ar-Rashid to Charlemagne
Adwaita	turtle	Zoo animal	18th century	approx. 1750-2006	Male Aldabra giant tortoise in the Calcutta Zoo in India , was thought to be the oldest living vertebrate when it died, probably 256 years old.
Alex	Bird: African gray parrot	Research animal	20th century	* around 1976; † September 6, 2007	Talking parrot
Antje	walrus	Zoo animal	20th century	1976-2003	Walrus from the Hamburg Zoo, long-time mascot of the NDR
Azy	orangutan	Research animal	20th century	* Nov 24, 1977	One of two orangutans that could communicate using symbols
Baba	elephant	Fairground animal	19th century	proven between 1824 and 1840	Trained feasting elephant in the first half of the 19th century
Bao Bao	panda	Zoo animal	20th century	1978-2012	The crowd favorite of the Berlin Zoological Garden
Bart the Bear	bear	Media animal	20th century	* January 19, 1977; † May 10, 2000	Male Kodiak bear, starred in numerous Hollywood films between 1980 and 1998
Benson	carp	Media animal	20th century	† August 2009	At times the largest common carp in Great Britain, caught 63 times
Bernini's elephant	elephant	Fairground animal	17th century	before 1629 until after 1631	The first fairground elephant in history and obelisk bearer in Rome
Beast from Gévaudan	Wolf ; Hyena ; African wild dog ; Hybrids (most common hypotheses )	Wild animal that attacked and killed humans	18th century	* unknown; † June 19, 1767	Responsible for at least 100 deaths between 1764 and 1767.
Bubbles	chimpanzee	domestic animal	20th century	* 1983	Pet of Michael Jackson
Meatball	hippopotamus	Zoo animal	20th century	1952-2005	Well-known female hippopotamus of the Berlin Zoological Garden
Castor and Pollux	Elephants	Zoo animals	19th century	† December 25 or 26, 1870	Eaten by the population during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870
Chantek	orangutan	Research animal	20th century	* December 17, 1977	Orangutan with the ability to communicate in sign language, with a language range of 140 words
Cher Ami	Vogel: pigeon	Assistance animal	20th century		Military carrier pigeon in World War I
Chunee	elephant	Zoo animal	19th century	* approx. 1808; † 1826	Lived on the first floor of a house in central London for 14 years and was shot there
Clara	rhino	Fairground animal	18th century	1738-1758	Indian rhinoceros from Bengal , toured successfully across Europe
Clarence	lion	Media animal	20th century	around 1968	Leo known from the series Daktari , which, however, scene by scene gedoubelt was
Clarence	Vogel: Sparrow	domestic animal	20th century	1940-1952	In World War II in London city known Sparrow
Congo	chimpanzee	Zoo animal	20th century	* 1954; † 1964	Produced over 400 drawings and paintings
Cornelius I.	rhino	Zoo animal	20th century		Black rhino, it in the 1960s as party leader of the Parti Rhinocéros in Canada brought
Crabzilla	Japanese giant crab	Zoo animal	21st century	circa 1970	One of the largest giant crabs in captivity.
Crowninshield's elephant	elephant	Circus animal	18./19. Century	* around 1793 † July 22, 1822	First elephant in America
Dolly	sheep	Research animal	20th century	1996-2003	First mammal to be cloned
Doretta	Ganter	Therapy animal	21st century	2000-2009	known as "Chancellor Goose"
Eberhard	wild boar	domestic animal	20th century	around 1928	Wild boar that Ferdinand Sauerbruch received from his colleague Paul Gohrbandt
Ebun	rhino	Zoo animal	20th century	* 2009	Outcast by the mother and baptized on TV
Elephant from Antwerp	elephant	Ruling animal	16th century	after 1563	Second elephant of Maximilian II after the first named Soliman died in 1553
Elephant from Cremona	elephant	Ruling animal	13th century	† after 1240	In the possession of the Staufer Emperor Friedrich II and his companion on triumphal procession.
Elephant of Louis IX.	elephant	Ruling animal	13th century	† 1258	Gift of Louis IX. of France to Henry III. of England and the first elephant in London in 1255
Elephant of Louis XIV.	elephant	Ruling animal	17th century	proven 1664–1681	The only African elephant recorded in Europe between 1483 and 1882, who lived in Versailles for 13 years .
Elephant from Murten	elephant	Circus animal	19th century	† June 19, 1866	Killed with a cannon after a hunt through the small Swiss town of Murten
Garnier Elephants	Elephants	Carnival animals	19th century	† 1819; † 1820	Killed by cannonballs through masonry in Venice and Geneva in 1819 and 1820, respectively
Fatou	gorilla	Zoo animal	20./21. Century	* 1957	In the Berlin Zoological Garden since 1959 , is considered the gorilla with the highest documented age.
Fiona	hippopotamus	Zoo animal	21st century	* 2017	As a cub at Cincinnati Zoo, he became a cash cow and social media star ("Fionamania") in the first half of his life. The first hippopotamus to have prenatal ultrasound images.
flake	Icebear	Zoo animal	21st century	* December 11, 2007	Born in Nuremberg Zoo and a favorite with the public there
Floquet de Neu ("Snow Maiden")	gorilla	Zoo animal	20th century	around 1963 / 1964–2003	The only known albino gorilla and the mascot of the Barcelona Zoo
Fu Hu	panda	Zoo animal	21st century	* 2010	Born in Schönbrunn Zoo
Fu Long	panda	Zoo animal	21st century	* 2007	Born in Schönbrunn Zoo
GI Joe	Vogel: pigeon	Assistance animal	20th century	* March 24, 1943; † June 3, 1961	US Army military carrier pigeon in World War II
Goethe elephant	elephant	Ruling animal	18th century	1771-1780	Since 1773 in the menagerie of Landgrave Friedrich II in Kassel and supplier of the skull for Goethe's studies of the intermaxillary bone
Harambe	gorilla	Zoo animal	21st century	1999-2016	Became famous after his killing
Ham	chimpanzee	Research animal	20th century	1953-1986	First chimpanzee shot into space during the Mercury program in 1961.
Hanno	elephant	Ruling animal	16th century	around 1510-1516	Gift from Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X and his favorite animal
Hansken	elephant	Fairground animal	17th century	1630-1655	A learned elephant, immortalized in Rembrandt's work
Harriet	turtle	Zoo animal	19th century	around 1830-2006	Galápagos giant tortoise and, when it dies, one of the oldest known animals in the world
Heidi	Virginia opossum	Zoo animal	21st century	2008-2011	Got a lot of media attention with her squint
Heiyantuduwa Raja	Sri Lankan Elephant	Assistance animal	20th century	around 1924 to November 6, 2002	Bearer of the Buddha's tooth relic at the Dalada Perahera procession in the Sri Dalada Maligawa temple . Its tusks each measured 2.3 m (7 ft 6 in) during his lifetime and were considered to be the longest tusks of an elephant in Sri Lanka .
Hua Mei	panda	Zoo animal	21st century	* August 21, 1999	Female bamboo bear, born after artificial insemination in the USA, brought to China in 2004, there with its own offspring
Jack	baboon	Assistance animal	19th century	† 1890	Assistance animal of a handicapped marshal in South Africa
Jeremy	Spotted garden snail	Research object	21st century	† October 11, 2017	Snail with a rare counter-clockwise housing
jumbo	elephant	Fairground animal	19th century	1860-1885	Due to its size dubbed the "King of the Elephants" and died after a collision with a locomotive
JJ1 , also "Bruno" or "Problem Bear"	brown bear	Media animal	21st century	* 2004; † June 26, 2006	Brown bear immigrated from Italy to Bavaria in 2006 and after 170 years the first bear living in the wild in Germany
Judy	chimpanzee	Media animal	21st century	* around 1965	Well-known chimpanzee from the Daktari series
Keiko	Orca	Media animal	20th century	* approx. 1976/77; † December 12, 2003	Trained killer whale, star of several movies ( Free Willy )
Clever Hans	horse	Fairground animal	20th century	* around 1895	Horse with numeracy skills
Crumples	hippopotamus	Zoo animal	20th century	1943-1988	Well-known hippopotamus of the Berlin Zoological Garden and father of the meatball
Knut	Icebear	Zoo animal	21st century	* December 5, 2006; † March 19, 2011	After his birth in the Berlin Zoological Garden, global media star
Lampo	dog	Media animal	20th century	† July 22, 1961	The mixed breed dog appeared at the Campiglia Marittima train station in 1953 . The station served the most photographed dog in the world at the time as a base for his train journeys across Italy until he died in an accident.
Lilly	goose	Media animal	20th century		The goose Lilli spent her life on the rails of the tram line 39, which ended in the Sievering district of Vienna until August 30, 1970 , from where the driver always had to carry her away to enable her to continue.
Lonesome George	turtle	Research animal	20th century	† June 24, 2012	Last known giant tortoise of the subspecies Geochelone nigra abingdoni
Luise	pig	Assistance animal	20th century	1984-1998	Spürwildsau of the Lower Saxony police , 1985 official member of the police dog squadron in Hildesheim
Luna	Orca	Media animal	21st century	1999-2006	Adored by the Mowachaht Muchalaht Indians
Marjan	lion	Zoo animal	20th century	1976-2002	Lion in Kabul Zoo that survived an assassination attempt and a war
Martha	Vogel: pigeon	Zoo animal	20th century	† September 1, 1914	Last living passenger pigeon
Mary	elephant	Circus animal	20th century	† September 13, 1916	Circus Elephant, hanged in Tennessee
Massa	gorilla	Zoo animal	20./21. Century	around 1971-2020	The oldest breeding gorilla in Europe, died in a fire in the Krefeld Zoo
Matzo	gorilla	Zoo animal	20./21. Century	around 1957-2008	oldest breeding gorilla in the world and symbol of the Frankfurt Zoo
Max	White stork	Research animal	20./21. Century	1999 to 2012	The white stork Max is the longest (1999–2012) monitored animal using transmitter tracking.
Medici giraffe	giraffe	Ruling animal	15th century	* before 1486; † shortly after 1486	Gift from Sultan Kait-Bay to Lorenzo il Magnifico , a sensation in Florence in 1486 and the only living giraffe in Europe for another 300 years
Mike	Vogel: rooster	domestic animal	20th century	* April 1945; † March 1947	Rooster living headless
Miss Baba	elephant	Fairground animal	19th century	† 1857	Elephant cow of a hiking menagerie with a spectacular ending
Miss Baker	female squirrel monkey	American laboratory animal	20th century	1958-1984	Space visitor 1959
Moby Dick	whale	Media animal	20th century		White whale named after the novel by Herman Melville , which was sighted in 1966 far from its arctic habitat in the Rhine and caused a sensation for weeks
Motty	elephant	Zoo animal	20th century	* July 11, 1978; † July 21, 1978	The only known hybrid of the two elephant species of the Asian and African elephants
Möppi	Tree frog	domestic animal	20th century	Mid 1930s	Lived in a terrarium in Edith and Otto Hahn's house in Berlin-Dahlem
Nigel	bird	Media animal	21st century	† January 2018	The booby who loved a dummy
Nils Olav	penguin	Zoo animal	21st century		King Penguin of Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland and honorary holder since August 15, 2008, since then Sir Nils Olav II.
Obaysch	hippopotamus	Zoo animal	19th century	around 1849–1878	The first hippo in England and inspiration for a polka
"Oscar", Unsinkable Sam	Bismarck's cat	German tomcat	20th century	† 1955	survived three ship sinks and died of natural causes in Gibraltar
Paul	octopus	Zoo and media animal	21st century	* 2008; † October 26, 2010	Oracle for the Soccer World Cup 2010
Pelorus Jack	whale	Media animal	19th century	around 1888	Round-headed dolphin that regularly followed steamers through the Cook Strait between the North Island and the South Island of New Zealand .
Petermann	chimpanzee	Zoo animal	20th century	1947-1985	Trained chimpanzee in Cologne Zoo , which seriously injured the zoo director in an outbreak in 1985 and was finally shot by the police.
Petra	Vogel: swan	Media animal	21st century	since 2006	Female mourning swan in Münster , which followed a swan-shaped pedal boat from 2006 to 2008
Petros	Vogel: pelican	Media animal	20th century	* before 1958; † 1986	Great White Pelican in Mykonos and the island's mascot
Princess	Vogel: stork	Media animal	20th century	* around 1990; † December 23, 2006	White stork and media star
Prometea	horse	Research animal	21st century	* May 28, 2003	First cloned horse
Qaswa	camel	Ruling animal	07th century		Mohammed's favorite camel
Quax	Great White Pelican	Media animal	21st century	† February 16, 2012	Pelican lady traveling with storks
Raja also "Maligawa Raja"	Sri Lankan Elephant	Assistance animal	20th century	around 1913 to July 16, 1988	Belonged to Sri Dalada Maligawa Temple in Kandy . He took part in the Esala festival for about 50 summers , including 37 years as the bearer of the shrine with the sacred tooth relic of the Buddha at the final Randoli perehera ( sedan chair procession ). During his lifetime he was one of the most revered elephants in Asia and world famous for his “noble” behavior. On August 20, 1986, then Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayewardene declared Raja a national treasure .
Rasputin	Sibirian Tiger	Zoo animal	21st century	December 22, 2013 - February 24, 2016
Rhinocerus , also: "Dürer's rhinoceros"	rhino	Ruling animal	16th century	around 1515	Gift of King Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X in Rome in 1515, who drowned on the way and continued the journey stuffed.
Rieke	giraffe	Zoo animal	20th century	* 1938; † 1957	The public's favorite at the Berlin Zoo and the only animal that was evacuated to return there after the Second World War
Robby	chimpanzee	Circus animal	20./21. Century	* 1971 (?)	is considered to be the last great ape kept in a German circus.
Samantha (called Sam)	Koala bear		21st century	* 2004; † August 2009	Sam was a female koala rescued by a firefighter in the 2009 Australian bushfires. Well known is the video in which Sam drinks water from a bottle.
Sammy	Caiman	Pet escaped in 1994	* 1989		Escaped in a lake in Dormagen and was recaptured a few days later.
Sandy	Bird: penguin	Zoo animal	21st century	* 1996	Penguin in the Allwetterzoo Münster
Schongauer's elephant	elephant	Ruling animal	15th century	Documented in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main and Memmingen in 1483	Gift of John II of Portugal to Emperor Friedrich III. , occupied u. a. by two copper engravings by the brothers Ludwig and Martin Schongauer
Shrek	Merino sheep	domestic animal	21st century	* approx. 1993; † June 6, 2011	Had stayed in caves unnoticed for years, so that the first shear resulted in 27 kg of wool.
Sirocco (Kakapo)	Kakapo	Media animal	20th century	* March 23, 1997	Because of a domination act against a people in the BBC TV series Last Chance to See , based on the book Last Chance to See the zoologist Mark Carwardine known
Snowball	Bird: subspecies of the yellow-crested cockatoo	domestic animal	21st century	* around 1996	known for his ability to make rhythmic movements to music and to adapt them to the tempo of the music (" dancing ")
Soliman	elephant	Ruling animal	16th century	1540-1553	Elephant of the Habsburgs and later Emperor Maximilian and the first elephant in Vienna
Sudan	rhino	Media animal	20th century	1973 - March 19, 2018	the last known male northern white rhinoceros in the world
Súlukongur	Bird: Albatross	Media animal	19th century	before 1860 to around 1894	The only albatross ever seen on the Faroe Islands and the Faroese namesake for the black- browed albatross
Sweetheart	crocodile	Media animal	20th century	* before 1971; † July 19, 1979	Became known worldwide as a totem animal and so-called "rogue crocodile" in Australia
The Light of Asia	elephant	Circus animal	19th century	Active in 1884	Was colored and presented as an alleged white elephant in the course of the White Elephant War.
Thibault	lobster	domestic animal	19th century	around 1850	It caused a sensation in Parisian bohemians in the mid-19th century as Gérard de Nerval's live pet that was carried in public
Tiger by Sabrodt	wolf	Media animal	20th century	around 1904	In 1904 the last wolf in Lusatia
Tilikum	whale	Media animal	20th century	approx. November 1981 - January 6, 2017	SeaWorld Orca involved in the deaths of three people
Trevor , World's loneliest duck	Mallard	Media animal	21st century	† January 2019	Lived as the only duck on the isolated Pacific island of Niue . Presumably because of a storm or came to Niue as a stowaway, she lived in a puddle that was therefore filled by the fire brigade.
Khun Tongdaeng	dog	Dog of the Thai King Bhumibol	20./21. Century	* 1998; † December 26, 2015	praised by the king in a book; revered as a member of the royal family and protected by the same laws
Topsy	elephant	Circus animal	19th century	* around 1867; † January 4, 1903	Circus elephant, died of electrocution in 1903
Tsunami fish	Beakfish	Media animal	21st century	unknown	Survivor of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake
Trigger , formerly Golden Cloud	horse	Media animal	20th century	* 1932; † July 3, 1965	“ Palomino ” ridden in westerns by actor Roy Rogers from 1938 and one of the most famous horses in the American film industry with occasional names of names on film posters.
Tuffy	elephant	Circus animal	20th century	1946-1989	Young elephant, survived the fall from the Wuppertal suspension railway into the Wupper on July 21, 1950
Tu'i Malila	turtle	Zoo animal	18th century	around 1773 / 1777–1965	Considered the oldest of all turtles until the age of the Indian giant tortoise Adwaita was revealed in 2006
Vilja	elephant	Zoo animal	20th century	* 1949; † July 10, 2010	Asian elephant cow in the Stuttgart Wilhelma and one of the oldest elephants in Europe
Washoe	chimpanzee	Research animal	20th century	1965-2007	Chimpanzee from West Africa, named by researchers who have worked with her as the first non-human being to learn a human language.
Willi	seal	Media animal	20./21. Century	* before 1991	The female gray seal is regularly in the port basin of Hörnum ( Sylt ).
Wojtek	Syrian brown bear	Assistance animal	20th century	1942-1963	Mascot and later officially soldier of the Second Polish Corps , transported ammunition in the Battle of Monte Cassino
Wolf of Ansbach	wolf	Media animal	17th century		Wolf attacking people in Ansbach , whose fur was hung on the gallows
Yvonne	Domestic cattle	Media animal	21st century	* 2004/05	Runaway cow
Zarafa	giraffe	Zoo animal	19th century	* before 1827; † January 12, 1845	Gift of Muhammad Ali Pasha to Charles X of France, lived in the Jardin des Plantes for 18 years and inspired the Parisian ladies to hairdos "à la girafe"

literature

Dorothy Cannell: Madame and her pug. Famous women, famous dogs . Feder Verlag, Munich 1963.
Harald Gebhardt, Mario Ludwig: The most famous animals in the world . BLV Buchverlag 2008 ISBN 978-3-8354-0319-2 .
Tankred Koch: ... there is a horse halter on the wall. Famous horses and their history . Minerva Edition Wissen 1997 ISBN 978-3-936611-21-2 .
Stephan Oettermann : The elephant curiosity. An Elephantographia Curiosa . Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-8108-0203-4 .
Annelore Rieke-Müller, Lothar Dittrich : Out and about with wild animals. Wandering menageries between instruction and commerce 1750–1850 . Basilisken-Presse, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-925347-52-6 .

Remarks

↑ The term species is not used here in the sense of the biological concept of order , but serves to make the animals easier to find in their everyday assignments.
^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 314.
↑ The mother of all crocodile reports in the summer slump. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
↑ wdr.de: Bird with tact

Web links

Commons : famous animals - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Menageries : Images and sources on the wandering menageries of the 19th century ( PDF ; 11.16 MB)

[1] The term species is not used here in the sense of the biological concept of order , but serves to make the animals easier to find in their everyday assignments.

[2] Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 314.

[3] The mother of all crocodile reports in the summer slump. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .

[4] wdr.de: Bird with tact