Blue might be one of nature’s rarest colours but blue animals might be more common than you think. Meet our favourite blue animals from the common to the rare – there may be some surprises…
21 blue animals Blue poison dart frogs from Surinam, South America. © Getty Images
The showy and dazzling peacock in all its glory © Getty Images
Blue-speckled tree monitor, found on the island of Batanta in Indonesia. © Westranger/Getty
Can this be real? A beautiful blue dragon sea slug. © S.Rohrlach/Getty A blue carpenter bee, Xylocopa caerulea, on a flower. The blue carpenter bee (Xylocopa caerulea ) from south-east Asia. © Getty Images
Blue tit in spring on a small branch. © Mark L Stanley/Getty A Portuguese man o’ war (Physalia physalis) washed up on St. Catherine’s Beach in Bermuda A washed up Portuguese Man o’ War – watch out for its sting! © Getty images
Common blue butterfly on marjoram. © Ian West/Oxford Scientific/Getty Images Plus The Grand Cayman blue iguana. © Michael Fitzsimmons/Getty Sri Lankan blue magpie in Sri Lanka. © feathercollector/Getty Portrait Blue Bielzia coerulans slug crawls over dry leaves in forest. Carpathian blue slug or blue slug selective focus Blue Bielzia coerulans slug © getty Images
Blue jays in the snow. © Gary Carter/Getty Striped surgeonfish at the Great Barrier Reef, Unesco World Heritage Site. © Norbert Probst/Getty A young panther chameleon. © fotoclick/Getty Common kingfisher in Sussex, UK. © Lillian King/Getty Blue shark in the sunlight at Gordon’s Bay, Azores. © Margriet Tilstra/Getty Blue-winged kookaburra. © Rini Kools/Getty Eastern bluebird. © Gary Carter/Getty An emperor dragonfly. © Anne Richardson/500px/Getty Blue-girdled angelfish, also known as majestic angelfish, swimming past soft corals in Komodo National Park, Indonesia. © Georgette Douwma/Getty Normally brown in colour, male sinai agama lizards turn blue in the mating season to attract females. © Grandbrothers/Getty
