Animal Wheel: Spin the Wheel of Animals

Spin one of 147 real animals, one group at a time, and see what its young and a group of them are called.

Animal Wheel: Spin the Wheel of Animals

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Whale

Young: calf. Group: a pod. Female: cow. Male: bull.

Every spin uses the whole wheel.

147 animals on the wheel.

Numbers on the wheel

  1. Lion
  2. Tiger
  3. Cheetah
  4. Elephant
  5. Giraffe
  6. Zebra
  7. Hippopotamus
  8. Rhinoceros
  9. Gorilla
  10. Monkey
  11. Camel
  12. Kangaroo
  13. Koala
  14. Wombat
  15. Platypus
  16. Giant panda
  17. Polar bear
  18. Bear
  19. Wolf
  20. Fox
  21. Deer
  22. Rabbit
  23. Squirrel
  24. Hedgehog
  25. Beaver
  26. Raccoon
  27. Otter
  28. Bat
  29. Dolphin
  30. Whale
  31. Seal
  32. Horse
  33. Cow
  34. Pig
  35. Sheep
  36. Goat
  37. Donkey
  38. Dog
  39. Cat
  40. Hamster
  41. Albatross
  42. Chicken
  43. Crane
  44. Crow
  45. Dove
  46. Duck
  47. Eagle
  48. Emu
  49. Falcon
  50. Flamingo
  51. Goose
  52. Hawk
  53. Heron
  54. Lyrebird
  55. Nightingale
  56. Owl
  57. Peacock
  58. Pelican
  59. Penguin
  60. Pheasant
  61. Pigeon
  62. Quail
  63. Raven
  64. Starling
  65. Swan
  66. Turkey
  67. Parrot
  68. Ostrich
  69. Hummingbird
  70. Woodpecker
  71. Puffin
  72. Kiwi
  73. Alligator
  74. Cobra
  75. Crocodile
  76. Gecko
  77. Lizard
  78. Snake
  79. Turtle
  80. Chameleon
  81. Iguana
  82. Komodo dragon
  83. Tortoise
  84. Python
  85. Rattlesnake
  86. Tuatara
  87. Frog
  88. Newt
  89. Salamander
  90. Toad
  91. Axolotl
  92. Tree frog
  93. Poison dart frog
  94. Bullfrog
  95. Caecilian
  96. Glass frog
  97. Cod
  98. Eel
  99. Herring
  100. Salmon
  101. Seahorse
  102. Shark
  103. Stingray
  104. Clownfish
  105. Goldfish
  106. Pufferfish
  107. Swordfish
  108. Tuna
  109. Piranha
  110. Catfish
  111. Manta ray
  112. Anglerfish
  113. Whale shark
  114. Hammerhead
  115. Flying fish
  116. Electric eel
  117. Ant
  118. Bee
  119. Beetle
  120. Butterfly
  121. Cockroach
  122. Crab
  123. Fly
  124. Gnat
  125. Grasshopper
  126. Hornet
  127. Jellyfish
  128. Ladybug
  129. Lobster
  130. Locust
  131. Mosquito
  132. Moth
  133. Octopus
  134. Oyster
  135. Snail
  136. Spider
  137. Squid
  138. Starfish
  139. Termite
  140. Wasp
  141. Dragonfly
  142. Earthworm
  143. Scorpion
  144. Centipede
  145. Shrimp
  146. Praying mantis
  147. Firefly

Results

  1. 1. Whale

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Animal Wheel: Spin the Wheel of Animals: how it works

This animal wheel holds 147 real animals in ten groups: 40 mammals in three, 32 birds in two, 14 reptiles, 10 amphibians, 20 fish, 18 insects and 13 other invertebrates. The full wheel is numbered, with the names listed under it. Tap a group and the slices carry the names. The result card adds what the young and a group of that animal are called, or one checked fact.

Pick a group before you spin

The groups follow the classes taught in school science, with insects apart from the other animals without a backbone. That is why the starfish and the jellyfish sit beside the spider, and why the bat, the whale and the dolphin are mammals. Mammals and birds are split by where you meet them, so every group fits on the wheel with its names. Land birds is the biggest at 22. With small children, start with Farm and pet mammals, a quick 10.

Charades, drawing and science games

Charades: spin with the screen turned away and act the animal out. Drawing: spin twice and draw one creature with the head of the first animal and the body of the second. Science: spin, then ask which class it is in before anyone reads the card.

Tips

  • Read the card as a quiz. What is a baby swan called? A cygnet. A group of flamingos? A flamboyance.
  • Report topics: switch to Elimination, and each student spins an animal nobody else has.
  • Spin, then spin the letter wheel and name another animal that starts with that letter.

Questions and answers

Which animals are on the wheel?

147 living animals chosen for this site. Some are single species, like the koala and the Komodo dragon. Others are whole families, like parrot and beetle, because that is how people name animals in games. There are no dinosaurs and no mythical creatures. The full list is printed under the wheel.

Are group names like a parliament of owls real?

They are real English, but mostly word play. Many come from The Book of Saint Albans, a hunting book printed in 1486. Scientists rarely say parliament or bask. They say flock, herd, school, colony or swarm. Every term on the cards was checked against Wikipedia's list of animal names on 2026-09-18.

Why do some cards give a fact and no baby name?

Wikipedia's table of animal names has nothing worth quoting for 41 of the 147 animals, and this page does not guess. Those cards carry one fact from the animal's own article. The axolotl card says it grows up without ever leaving the water, and the firefly card says every firefly glows as a larva.

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All 147 animals

Farm and pet mammals 10

  • Cat Young: kitten. Group: a clowder. Female: queen. Male: tom.
  • Cow Cow is the female; the animal is cattle. Young: calf. Group: a herd. Male: bull.
  • Dog Young: puppy or whelp. A group of wild dogs is a pack.
  • Donkey Young: foal. Group: a drove. Female: jenny. Male: jack.
  • Goat Young: kid. Group: a herd or a trip. Female: nanny. Male: billy.
  • Hamster Young: pup. Group: a horde.
  • Horse Young: foal. Group: a herd. Female: mare. Male: stallion.
  • Pig Young: piglet. Group: a drove or a sounder. Female: sow. Male: boar.
  • Rabbit Young: kit or bunny. Group: a warren. Female: doe. Male: buck.
  • Sheep Young: lamb. Group: a flock. Female: ewe. Male: ram.

Water birds 10

  • Albatross Young: chick. Group: a rookery.
  • Crane Young: chick. Group: a siege.
  • Duck Young: duckling. Male: drake. A group on the water is a raft or a paddling.
  • Flamingo Young: chick. Group: a flamboyance.
  • Goose Young: gosling. Male: gander. A group is a gaggle on land and a skein in flight.
  • Heron Young: chick. Group: a siege.
  • Pelican Young: chick. Group: a pod or a scoop.
  • Penguin Young: chick. Group: a colony. On land a group is a waddle; in the water, a raft.
  • Puffin The Atlantic puffin is a seabird that dives for small fish and uses its wings to swim underwater.
  • Swan Young: cygnet. Group: a bevy. Female: pen. Male: cob.

Amphibians 10

  • Axolotl A salamander from highland lakes in Mexico that grows up without ever leaving the water. Wild axolotls are critically endangered.
  • Bullfrog American bullfrog. A large frog native to eastern North America, at home in swamps, ponds and lakes. Taken to more than 40 countries as food, it is now an invasive species in many of them.
  • Caecilian The name is New Latin for 'blind ones'. More than 220 species of these limbless amphibians live in the tropics and eat earthworms and other small underground animals.
  • Frog Young: tadpole or froglet. Group: an army.
  • Glass frog Most glass frogs are lime green and live in the trees of Central American and Colombian rainforests. While one sleeps on a leaf, most of its blood is tucked away in the liver, which makes it harder to spot.
  • Newt Young: eft.
  • Poison dart frog Brightly colored frogs from tropical Central and South America. In many species the color warns that the frog is toxic.
  • Salamander Young: larva.
  • Toad Young: tadpole or toadlet. Group: a knot.
  • Tree frog Any frog that spends most of its life in trees. Several unrelated frog groups have produced tree frogs.

Woods and water mammals 13

  • Bat Young: pup. Group: a colony or a cloud.
  • Bear Young: cub. Group: a sleuth or a sloth.
  • Beaver Young: kit. Group: a colony.
  • Deer Young: fawn. Group: a herd. Female: doe. Male: buck.
  • Dolphin Young: calf. Group: a pod.
  • Fox Young: kit or cub. Group: a skulk. Female: vixen.
  • Hedgehog Young: hoglet. Group: an array.
  • Otter Young: pup. Group: a romp.
  • Raccoon Young: kit. Group: a gaze.
  • Seal Young: pup. Group: a pod or a rookery.
  • Squirrel Young: kit. Group: a scurry.
  • Whale Young: calf. Group: a pod. Female: cow. Male: bull.
  • Wolf Young: pup or cub. Group: a pack.

Other invertebrates 13

  • Centipede Has one pair of legs on each body segment, and no species has exactly 100 legs.
  • Crab Young: zoea. Female: hen. Male: cock.
  • Earthworm A soil-dwelling segmented worm. Nightcrawler and rainworm are other names for it.
  • Jellyfish Group: a bloom or a smack.
  • Lobster Group: a risk. Female: hen. Male: cock.
  • Octopus Young: paralarva.
  • Oyster Young: spat. Group: a bed.
  • Scorpion An eight-legged arachnid with pincers and a stinger at the tip of its tail. Scorpions give birth to live young.
  • Shrimp Swims forward by paddling the small limbs under its tail, and escapes backwards with quick flicks of the tail.
  • Snail Group: a walk or a rout.
  • Spider Young: spiderling. Group: a cluster or a clutter.
  • Squid Young: paralarva. Group: a shoal.
  • Starfish Group: a galaxy.

Reptiles 14

  • Alligator Young: hatchling. Group: a congregation. Female: cow. Male: bull.
  • Chameleon Each eye moves on its own, and it catches insects with a projectile tongue. Many species can change color.
  • Cobra Group: a quiver.
  • Crocodile Young: hatchling. Group: a bask or a float.
  • Gecko Young: hatchling.
  • Iguana A plant-eating lizard from tropical Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
  • Komodo dragon A monitor lizard found only on five Indonesian islands, Komodo among them. Western scientists first recorded it in 1910, and it takes 8 to 11 years to mature.
  • Lizard Young: hatchling.
  • Python A non-venomous snake from Africa, Asia and Australia that kills prey by squeezing it.
  • Rattlesnake Named for the rattle at the end of its tail, which makes a loud noise that deters predators. All species live in the Americas.
  • Snake Young: hatchling or snakelet. Group: a nest or a slither.
  • Tortoise The longest-living land animals. Most tortoise species can live 80 to 150 years.
  • Tuatara Found only in New Zealand. It looks like a lizard but is the last living member of a separate reptile order.
  • Turtle Young: hatchling. Group: a bale.

Safari and zoo mammals 17

  • Camel Young: calf. Group: a caravan or a train.
  • Cheetah Young: cub. A group of males is a coalition.
  • Elephant Young: calf. Group: a herd or a parade. Female: cow. Male: bull.
  • Giant panda Young: cub. Group: an embarrassment.
  • Giraffe Young: calf. Group: a tower.
  • Gorilla Young: infant. Group: a troop or a band. Male: silverback.
  • Hippopotamus Young: calf. Group: a bloat. Female: cow. Male: bull.
  • Kangaroo Young: joey. Group: a mob. Male: boomer.
  • Koala Young: joey. A tree-living marsupial from Australia, not a bear. Eucalyptus leaves make up most of its diet.
  • Lion Young: cub. Group: a pride. Female: lioness.
  • Monkey Young: infant. Group: a troop.
  • Platypus Group: a paddle. One of the few mammals that lay eggs. It lives in eastern Australia.
  • Polar bear Young: cub. Female: sow. Male: boar.
  • Rhinoceros Young: calf. Group: a crash.
  • Tiger Young: cub. Group: a streak or an ambush. Female: tigress.
  • Wombat Young: joey. Group: a wisdom.
  • Zebra Young: foal. Group: a dazzle or a zeal. Female: mare. Male: stallion.

Insects 18

  • Ant Young: larva. Group: a colony or an army. Female: queen. Male: drone.
  • Bee Young: larva. Group: a swarm or a hive. Female: queen. Male: drone.
  • Beetle Young: larva or grub. Group: a swarm.
  • Butterfly Young: caterpillar. Group: a kaleidoscope or a flutter.
  • Cockroach Young: nymph. Group: an intrusion.
  • Dragonfly About 3,000 species are known. Two compound eyes cover most of the head, and in the largest species they hold more than 20,000 facets.
  • Firefly A family of more than 2,400 beetle species, also called lightning bugs. Every firefly glows as a larva, but only some species make light as adults.
  • Fly Young: maggot. Group: a swarm or a cloud.
  • Gnat Young: larva. Group: a cloud.
  • Grasshopper Young: nymph. Group: a cloud or a swarm.
  • Hornet Young: larva. Group: a nest. Female: queen. Male: drone.
  • Ladybug Young: larva. Group: a loveliness.
  • Locust Young: nymph. Group: a swarm or a host.
  • Mosquito Young: wriggler. Group: a swarm or a scourge.
  • Moth Young: caterpillar. Group: an eclipse.
  • Praying mantis Holds its large front legs folded as if praying, then uses them to catch and grip prey.
  • Termite Young: larva. Group: a colony.
  • Wasp Young: larva. Group: a nest or a colony. Female: queen. Male: drone.

Fish 20

  • Anglerfish Attracts prey with a modified fin ray on its head that works like a fishing lure.
  • Catfish Named for the whisker-like barbels around its mouth. Catfish have no scales.
  • Clownfish Shelters among sea anemones on Indo-Pacific coral reefs and helps protect the anemone in return.
  • Cod Young: codling. Group: a school.
  • Eel The larva is a leptocephalus. Young: elver. Group: a swarm or a bed.
  • Electric eel A freshwater fish from South America that has to come up to breathe air. Study of its shocks, begun in 1775, helped lead to the electric battery in 1800.
  • Flying fish A family of about 64 sea fish. Their long paired fins work like wings once they jump clear of the water. Barbados is known as the land of the flying fish.
  • Goldfish A small relative of the crucian carp and one of the most popular aquarium fish. Pet goldfish let loose have become a pest in parts of North America and Australia.
  • Hammerhead Hammerhead shark. Its eyes sit at the two ends of a T-shaped head, which gives it wide binocular vision.
  • Herring Group: a shoal or an army.
  • Manta ray A giant ray, up to 7 m (23 ft) across, that filters tiny zooplankton from the water.
  • Piranha A freshwater fish of South American rivers. It eats plants as well as other fish.
  • Pufferfish Can puff up its body, which makes its thin hidden spines stand out. Most species are toxic to eat.
  • Salmon Young: parr. Female: hen. Male: cock.
  • Seahorse Group: a shoal.
  • Shark Young: pup. Group: a shiver.
  • Stingray Young: pup. Group: a fever.
  • Swordfish Named for its long, flat, pointed bill. Adults commonly reach 3 m (10 ft) in length.
  • Tuna One of the few fish that can keep its body warmer than the water around it.
  • Whale shark The largest living fish. It is a slow filter feeder that eats plankton, krill and small fish.

Land birds 22

  • Chicken Young: chick. Group: a flock or a brood. Female: hen. Male: rooster.
  • Crow Group: a murder.
  • Dove Young: chick. Group: a flight.
  • Eagle Young: eaglet. Group: a convocation.
  • Emu Young: chick. Group: a mob.
  • Falcon Young: eyas. Group: a cast. Male: tiercel.
  • Hawk Young: eyas. A large soaring group is a kettle.
  • Hummingbird Named for the hum of its beating wings. The bee hummingbird, about 5 cm long, is the smallest bird.
  • Kiwi A flightless bird found only in New Zealand, about the size of a chicken, with nostrils at the tip of its beak.
  • Lyrebird Young: chick. Group: a musket.
  • Nightingale Young: chick. Group: a watch.
  • Ostrich The largest living bird. It cannot fly, but it can run at about 70 km/h (43 mph) in short bursts.
  • Owl Young: owlet. Group: a parliament.
  • Parrot Around 410 species, mostly in tropical regions. Some can imitate human speech.
  • Peacock A peacock is a male peafowl. Young: peachick. Group: an ostentation. Female: peahen.
  • Pheasant Young: chick. Group: a bouquet or a nye.
  • Pigeon Young: squab. Group: a flock.
  • Quail Young: chick. Group: a bevy.
  • Raven Young: chick. Group: an unkindness or a conspiracy.
  • Starling Group: a murmuration.
  • Turkey Young: poult. Group: a rafter. Female: hen. Male: tom.
  • Woodpecker Drums on tree trunks with its beak to find insects and to signal to other woodpeckers.

How this list was compiled: An original selection of 147 animals made for this site on 2026-09-18 and sorted by class: 40 mammals, 32 birds, 14 reptiles, 10 amphibians, 20 fish and 31 invertebrates. On 2026-09-19 the three biggest classes were split so that every group fits on the wheel with its names (24 or fewer): mammals into farm and pet (10), woods and water (13) and safari and zoo (17); birds into land (22) and water (10); invertebrates into insects (18) and the rest (13). Those splits are this site's own, by where a child is likely to meet the animal; insects are a class of their own. American bullfrog and Hammerhead shark are shortened on the slice to Bullfrog and Hammerhead, and their cards open with the full name. For 106 animals the words for the young, the female, the male and a group were checked on 2026-09-18 against the table at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names, and only terms that appear in that table are used. Many group names (a parliament of owls, a crash of rhinoceroses) come from a hunting book printed in 1486, The Book of Saint Albans, and are word play more than science: biologists mostly say herd, flock, school, colony or swarm. The other 41 animals are not in that table or have no entry worth quoting, so each carries one fact checked on 2026-09-18 against the opening section of its own English Wikipedia article, for example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl, /wiki/Komodo_dragon, /wiki/Common_ostrich, /wiki/Electric_eel, /wiki/Whale_shark, /wiki/Platypus and /wiki/Koala. Some entries are single species (Koala, Komodo dragon) and some are whole families (Parrot, Beetle), because that is how people name animals in games. Only living animals are listed: no dinosaurs and no mythical creatures. Ten of those fact lines (American bullfrog, Axolotl, Caecilian, Dragonfly, Electric eel, Firefly, Flying fish, Glass frog, Goldfish, Komodo dragon) were rewritten on 2026-09-18 from a fresh read of each article. The dragonfly line rests on the Morphology section of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly, which counts 22,650 eye facets in one large species and 23,890 in another. Licence: own work