List of known animals
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
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 | image | |
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Abul Abbas | elephant | Ruling animal | 9th 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 | 7th 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 . |
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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" |
See also
- List of known dogs
- List of known cats
- List of known horses
- List of pets in the White House
- Necrology (animals)
- List of fictional animals
- List of fictional animals
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