ANIMALS A TO Z

ANIMALS A TO Z Likhith G, Dr. Murali Mohan G The names of animals! It all started as a game. We wanted a word play for our daily walk. He suggested the game of naming animals with alphabets. Initially we used to tell only 5 to 6 animals with each alphabet. He developed interest in naming more and more animals. First, we searched in youtube with entry ‘animals a to z’. We saw several videos of animal names. He wanted more. So, we started searching google for list of animals in alphabetical order. There are several websites giving the list of animals in alphabetical order with pictures. We made a list covering almost all of those websites. That didn’t stop there. Finally, we started searching Wikipedia for individual lists, like list of snakes, list of birds etc. We finally got an exhaustive list of animals. We had decided in the beginning itself, to use only those names with single word, and discard those with multiple words. E.g. Fox is included but not Arctic Fox. Spider i