Ways to use this list
- Food chain sort: spin, decide whether the mammal is a herbivore, carnivore or omnivore, then name one thing it eats. A koala lives almost entirely on eucalyptus leaves.
- Mammal charades: spin, act it out without a sound and let the others guess. The sloth and the kangaroo are always crowd favourites.
- World map stickers: each child spins a mammal, finds where it lives in the wild and adds a sticker to that spot on a big class map.
- Heavier or lighter: spin two mammals and vote on which weighs more before looking it up. Narwhal against walrus starts a good argument.
- Animal report: spin a mammal for a one-page report with a drawing, its habitat, its babies and one fact that surprised you.
Press Spin the wheel, tap the game or press the Space bar. Change the list in the box as you
like: add your own, delete what doesn't suit you, or write *2 after an entry to give it double the
chance. The game buttons switch the same list to a duck race, hat, claw machine and more.
The full list (56 entries)
- African elephant
- Asian elephant
- Giraffe
- Okapi
- Lion
- Tiger
- Cheetah
- Leopard
- Snow leopard
- Jaguar
- Grey wolf
- Red fox
- Meerkat
- Brown bear
- Polar bear
- Giant panda
- Red panda
- Gorilla
- Chimpanzee
- Orangutan
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Hippopotamus
- White rhinoceros
- Zebra
- Moose
- Reindeer
- American bison
- Dromedary camel
- Red kangaroo
- Koala
- Wombat
- Tasmanian devil
- Sugar glider
- Quokka
- Virginia opossum
- Platypus
- Short-beaked echidna
- Blue whale
- Humpback whale
- Orca
- Bottlenose dolphin
- Narwhal
- Walrus
- Harbour seal
- Sea otter
- Manatee
- Flying fox
- Hedgehog
- Three-toed sloth
- Giant anteater
- Nine-banded armadillo
- Pangolin
- Aardvark
- Capybara
- Beaver
- Naked mole-rat
Questions people ask
What makes an animal a mammal?
All mammals have hair or fur at some stage of life, feed their babies on milk and are warm-blooded. That is why whales, bats and humans all count, while sharks, birds and lizards do not.
Which mammals lay eggs?
Only the monotremes: the platypus and four kinds of echidna, all from Australia and New Guinea. They lay soft, leathery eggs, and once the babies hatch the mothers still feed them on milk.
What are the biggest and smallest mammals?
The blue whale is the largest animal known ever to have lived, reaching about 30 metres. The biggest land mammal is the African elephant. The tiniest are the bumblebee bat and the Etruscan shrew, both around 2 grams.
Can any mammal really fly?
Bats are the only mammals that truly fly, flapping wings made of skin stretched between long finger bones. The flying fox on this list is a big fruit bat. Sugar gliders only glide on flaps of skin. For birds, fish and insects too, try the random animal generator.