Large Mammals: English Vocabulary List

a large animal with sharp claws and thick fur, which eats meat, honey, insects, and fruits

"The bear caught a fish in the river."

"The bear wandered into the campsite looking for food and frightened the campers who were cooking dinner."

any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks

"The woolly mammoth is an extinct relative of the elephant."

"The woolly mammoth was covered in thick fur and had long curved tusks for digging snow."

a large desert animal with a long neck and one or two humps on its back

"The camel walked slowly in the desert."

"A camel can live in hot places and travel long distances."

a wild pig with a narrow body and prominent tusks, considered the ancestor of most domestic pigs

"The wild boar ran fast."

"A majestic wild boar emerged from the dense forest, its tusks glinting menacingly in the dim light."

the large, shaggy-haired brown bison native to the North American plains

"A buffalo walked slowly."

"The massive buffalo grazed peacefully on the vast prairie, a symbol of the untamed American West."

a very large animal that lives in the sea, with horizontal tail fin and a blowhole on top of its head for breathing

"The whale is huge."

"We watched a whale near the boat during our trip."