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From Baboon to Box jellyfish, here are 20 animals beginning with the letter B <\/p>

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Published: Friday, 26 January 2024 at 16:27 PM<\/p>

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Discover 20 animals that start with the letter ‘B’. Can you think of more? Let us know what we have missed…<\/p>

Animals starting with ‘B’<\/h2>

Baboon<\/strong><\/p>

The baboon is one of the world’s largest monkeys and live throughout A<\/strong>frica and Arabia. <\/p>

In total there are five species of baboon: olive, yellow, chacma, Guinea, and sacred.\u00a0<\/p>

Banded mongoose<\/strong><\/p>

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Banded mongoose<\/a> (Mungos mungo<\/em>) are poor cousins of the\u00a0meerkat<\/a>; close taxonomic relatives with a fraction of the fame but the same goofy charisma (in spades).<\/p>

Barn owl<\/strong><\/p>

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The barn owl is a very distinctive species of owl, with an iconic \u2018facial disc\u2019, white face and underside, and light brown and grey feathers on the back of its head and its back.<\/p>

\u00a0Beaked sea snake<\/strong><\/p>

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Beaked sea snake (Enhydrina schistosa) on the sand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Thought to be the deadliest of the 64 species of snakes that spend\u00a0the majority of\u00a0their lives in the ocean, the beaked sea snake delivers its venom via a small pair of fangs at the front of its mouth. <\/p>

The venom contains a powerful toxin that causes paralysis, including of the diaphragm, potentially leading to respiratory failure.<\/p>

We named it one of the world’s deadliest sea creatures<\/a><\/p>

Beaver<\/strong><\/p>

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There are two species of beaver, the North American\u00a0beaver\u00a0and Eurasian beaver. Eurasian beavesr once lived all over Europe and Asia. Now they only live in small numbers in southern Scandinavia, Germany, France, Poland, central Russia and Britain.<\/p>

The North American\u00a0beaver\u00a0is Canada’s national animal<\/a>.<\/p>

Bewick swan<\/strong><\/p>

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Bewick’s swans at a wetland in Norfolk, England, UK. \u00a9 Mike Powles\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Bewick’s swans<\/a> are the smallest of the swan species found in the UK. They are migratory winter visitors to the UK, travelling 2,500 miles here from Siberia.<\/p>

Black-and-white ruffed lemur<\/strong><\/p>

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Lemurs<\/a>\u00a0are our most distant primate cousins, and only found on the island of\u00a0Madagascar<\/a>\u00a0where they\u2019ve been evolving in isolation for some 50-60 million years. Endangered black-and-white ruffed lemurs are unusual for primates since they give birth to litters of up to three babies.<\/p>

Black bear<\/strong><\/p>

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A black bear foraging on vegetation. \u00a9 Colleen Gara<\/figcaption><\/figure>

The black bear <\/a>is the smallest, yet most common, of the three bear species found in America (after the polar bear<\/a> and grizzly bear<\/a>). It’s still pretty big though! <\/p>

Black bear weight varies enormously depending on age, sex and time of year – black bears can be 30% heavier in autumn than they are in spring.<\/p>

Blackbird<\/strong><\/p>

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Blackbird Turdus merula, female, on garden fork handle<\/figcaption><\/figure>

A familiar bird to many, the blackbird<\/a> can be found in a variety of habitats, including gardens. <\/p>

Adult male blackbirds have black plumage and, during the breeding season, and orange yellow eye-ring and bill. Females are brown, often with a paler throat patch.<\/p>

Black mamba<\/strong><\/p>

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This snake, found in sub-Saharan Africa, is one of the deadliest snakes in the world<\/a> and probably most feared of all.<\/p>

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Unlike the relatively docile inland taipan, the black mamba is known to be particularly aggressive<\/p>

Blue-ringed octopus<\/strong><\/p>

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A blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) crawls across the reef while hunting for crustaceans at a dive site named Critter Hunt in Indonesia’s Lembeh Strait.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Don\u2019t be deceived by its beautiful markings or the fact that it\u2019s adorably pocket-sized; this family of Pacific and Indian Ocean octopuses boasts one of the most potent venoms in the sea. <\/p>

Their salivary glands produce tetrodotoxin, another\u00a0poison that rapidly causes\u00a0paralysiswith potentially fatal consequences.\u00a0<\/p>

Blue tit<\/strong><\/p>

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\u00a9 Drew Buckley<\/figcaption><\/figure>

With their smart blue caps, yellow breasts and white cheeks, blue tits are one of our most colourful garden visitors. <\/p>

They are also wonderfully acrobatic \u2013 clinging, swinging and pecking for food at remarkable angles on bird feeders<\/p>

Blue whale<\/strong><\/p>

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The blue whale<\/a> is the largest animal in the world, measuring up to 33 metres long. <\/p>

Blue whales are actually blue-grey, but they appear brilliantly turquoise in the water as they reflect the blue sky.\u00a0<\/p>

Blobfish<\/strong><\/p>