Table of contents

1 Animals in Literature 2 Animals in Television 3 Animals in Comics, Puppetry 4 Animals in Film 5 Animals in Song 6 Related Topics

Animals in Literature

• Bambi (a deer) in the book by Felix Salten and the subsequent animated film
• Charlotte (a spider) in Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
• Donner, Blitzen, etc. (reindeer) in the poem A Visit From St. Nicholas
• Eeyore (a donkey) in the Winnie the Pooh stories
• Flag (a fawn) in The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• Grendel (an unidentifiable creature) in Beowulf and various re-tellings of that story
• Kanga and Roo (kangaroos) in the Winnie the Pooh stories of A. A. Milne
• Moby-Dick (also often incorrectly spelt without the hyphen) (a whale) in the novel of the same name by Herman Melville
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (a mongoose) in the story of that name by Rudyard Kipling
• Shelob (a giant spider or spider-like creature) in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
• the World Turtle, carrying the four elephants which hold the Discworld, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld

• Atom Ant (an ant) in the TV show of that name
• Flipper (a dolphin) in the TV show of that name
• The Hypnotoad (a toad) in Futurama
• Patrick, a starfish in SpongeBob SquarePants
• Rocky (a squirrel) and Bullwinkle (a moose) from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show cartoons
• Sandy Cheeks (a squirrel), from "Spongebob Squarepants"
• Skippy (a kangaroo) in the Australian children's TV show of that name
• Slappy and Skippy (squirrels) in Animaniacs
• SpongeBob SquarePants, a sponge
• Taz, a tasmanian devil

• Alvin and the Chipmunks
• Chip 'n Dale (chipmunks)
• Kermit (a frog) in various Muppets TV shows and films
• Rosita, la Monstrua de las Cuevas (a fruit bat) on Sesame Street

• Anchor (a Hammerhead shark), Bruce (a Great white shark), Chum (a Mako shark), Coral (a clownfish), Crush (a Seaturtle), Dory (a Regal Blue Tang), Marlin (a clownfish), "Monster" (an Anglerfish), and Nemo (also a clownfish) in Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo
• Emperor Kuzco (turned into a llama), Misty (really a llama) and the squirrel in Disney's The Emperor's New Groove
• Foxy and Roxy, Merrie Melodies characters
• Goofy Gophers from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
• Gopher (a gopher), Pumbaa (a warthog) and Timon (a meerkat) in Disney's The Lion King
• Jiminy Cricket (a cricket) in Disney's Pinocchio
• Shark from "Jaws"
• Willy (an orca) in Free Willy and its sequels

• Rudolph (a reindeer) in the song 'Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer'