Blue might be one of nature’s rarest colours, but blue animals are more common than you think. Meet our favourite blue animals, from the common to the rare – and be prepared for some surprises…
23 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 Images
Can this be real? A beautiful blue dragon sea slug. © S.Rohrlach/Getty Images By-the-wind sailors live in warm and temperate oceans around the world. © Getty Images 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 Images 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 The Grand Cayman blue iguana. © Michael Fitzsimmons/Getty Images Sri Lankan blue magpie in Sri Lanka. © feathercollector/Getty Images 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 Images Striped surgeonfish at the Great Barrier Reef, Unesco World Heritage Site. © Norbert Probst/Getty Images A young panther chameleon. © fotoclick/Getty Images Common kingfisher in Sussex, UK. © Lillian King/Getty Images Blue shark in the sunlight at Gordon’s Bay, Azores. © Margriet Tilstra/Getty Blue shark in the sunlight at Gordon’s Bay, Azores. © Margriet Tilstra/Getty Images
Blue-winged kookaburra. © Rini Kools/Getty Images Eastern bluebird. © Gary Carter/Getty Images An emperor dragonfly. © Anne Richardson/Getty Images Blue-girdled angelfish, also known as majestic angelfish, swimming past soft corals in Komodo National Park, Indonesia. © Georgette Douwma/Getty Images Normally brown in colour, male sinai agama lizards turn blue in the mating season to attract females. © Grandbrothers/Getty Images The blue whale is probably one blue animal everyone can name. Blue whales are actually blue-grey, but they appear brilliantly turquoise in the water as they reflect the blue sky. © Getty Images
