Visiting a zoo is to see the weird and wonderful variety of animals. Zoos are vital for conservation reasons, but never underestimate the sheer wonder of seeing some of the most beautiful, mysterious, awe-inspiring, or just plain entertaining animals that you’ll find on your zoo trip. If you’re taking the kids, then watch their faces the first time they see a real-life rhino or get up close to a gorilla!
Here, You will find a list of amazing animals beginning with ‘V’, together with pictures and interesting facts on each animal. Learn about all kinds of different animals. Given below are the animals starting with the letter ‘V’.
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We’ve included both individual species whose names begin with V and well-known groups of animals that begin with V.
Vulture
Type: Bird
Diet: Carnivore
Average lifespan: Unknown (30 years in captivity)
Size: Body, 27 to 32 in (67 to 80 cm); Wingspan, 4 to 5.5 ft (1.2 to 1.7 m)
Weight: 6 to 10 lbs (2.7 to 4.5 kg)
Group: Solitary
Vultures have acute eyesight, muscular legs and sharp bills. They are white, with black tails and wing tips. They have piercing, straw-colored eyes and multicolored heads and necks. They are found from Mexico south to Argentina.
Vampire Bat
Type: Mammal
Diet: Carnivore
Average lifespan: About 9 years
Size: Body, 3.5 in (9 cm); Wingspan, 7 in (18 cm)
Weight: 2 oz (57 g) (Varies; can double in one feeding.)
Group: Colony
Bats are the only mammals that can fly. These notorious bats sleep during the day in total darkness, suspended upside down from the roofs of caves. It has a clawed thumb that comes out of the front edge of the wing. Its coat is dark gray-brown. Its mouth has two pointy front teeth. They likes tropical and subtropical places of Central and South America.
Vervet Monkey
Type: Mammal
Diet: Omnivorous
Size: 18 to 26 inches
Weight: 7 to 17 pounds
Lifespan: 24 years in captivity
The vervet monkey body is a greenish-olive or silvery-gray. The face, ears, hands, feet and tip of the tail are black. This small, black-faced monkey is common in East Africa. Leaves and young shoots are most important in the vervet diet.
Vicuna
The vicuna is one of the two wild South American camelids which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes. It is considered more delicate and gracile. It has long, woolly coat is tawny brown on the back, whereas the hair on the throat and chest is white and quite long. The head is slightly shorter and the ears are slightly longer. They feed in daytime on the grassy plains of the Andes Mountains.
We aspire that you enjoyed the visit to the zoo. Visiting makes of fun to learn about various fantastic animals beginning with ‘V’. We get to know about the taste and habits of various birds and animals. It gave us a better and close-up view of them.
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