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Giraffe
The tallest animal on Earth
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Saturday, 18 July 2026Animals in the order Artiodactyla on Global Animal Guide. The guide features 51 species in this order — each profile answers the most-searched questions first.

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The tallest animal on Earth

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The small forest hippo of West Africa

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The largest animal that has ever lived

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The domestic cattle that feeds the world

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The deep-diving giant with the largest brain

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One of the ocean's most intelligent animals

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The forest giraffe of the Congo

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The ocean's top predator

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The Arctic migrator and both-sex antlered deer

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The bugling giant of North American meadows

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The white whale of the Arctic

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The roaring stag of Eurasian woodlands

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The ancestor of the domestic pig

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The acrobatic singer of the seas

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The sleek greyhound of the seas

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The gnu of the great migration

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The intelligent farm mammal

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The big-eared deer of western North America

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The agile browser

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Bulbous-nosed steppe antelope of Central Asia

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The wallowing bovine of Asia

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Humanity's oldest livestock

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Fastest land mammal in the Americas

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Africa's deadliest large land mammal

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The Ice Age survivor of the Arctic

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Africa's tusked savanna pig

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The tusked unicorn of the sea

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The small antelope of the Serengeti

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The Andean pack animal and flock guardian

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Mountain sheep with massive curling horns

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Sure-footed climber of North American peaks

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South Africa's pronking antelope

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The Andean fleece specialist

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The smallest and most abundant rorqual

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Wild Andean camelid with ultrafine wool

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Wild South American camelid ancestor of the llama

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The Americas' most familiar deer

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Spirally horned antelope of the Indian plains

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Largest Asian antelope, also called blue bull

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Tiny antelope that whistles when alarmed

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The desert traveler that thrives without water

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North America's largest land animal

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The largest member of the deer family

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Collared herd animal of American scrublands

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White horned climber of northern peaks

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Rubber-hoofed dancer of African kopjes

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The world's most endangered marine mammal

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The shaggy ox of the high Himalayas

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The acrobatic leaper of the African savanna

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The mountain climber with sweeping ridged horns

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The wild sheep of the Central Asian hills