List of meat animals

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The following is a list of animals and insects that humans eat. It includes animals which some cultures never eat or do not consider meat, as well as endangered species.

Beef (bovines): American Bison Cattle Veal (calves) Yak Canids: Dog Fox Wolf Felines: Cat Lion Tiger Equines: Horses Donkeys Zebras Lagomorphs: Hare Pika Rabbit Marsupials: Kangaroo Opossum Wallaby Ovis (sheep): Lamb Domestic Sheep Bighorn sheep Caprae (goats) Domestic Goat Ibex Wild goat Barbary Sheep Suidae (swine): Domestic pig Peccary (Javelina) Wild boar Venison (Cervidae): Caribou (reindeer) Deer Moose Antelope Giraffe Red deer Rocky Mountain goat Primates: Gorilla Orangutan Chimpanzee Bonobo Human (cannibalism) Monkey Rodents: Beaver Guinea pig Capybara Muskrat Rat Squirrel Greater Cane Rat ("Grasscutter") Paca (Agouti or tepezcuintle) Cetaceans: Whale Dolphin Pinnipeds: Walrus Other mammals: Bear Elephant Raccoon Rhinoceros Weasel

Poultry (birds): Chicken Duck Goose Turkey Game birds: Dove New World quail Ostrich Emu Pheasant Grouse Partridge Crow Quail Pigeon Woodcock Reptiles: Turtle Lizard Snake Iguana Crocodile Alligator Amphibians: Frog Salamander Toad Fish: Anchovy Bass Catfish Carp Cod Crappie Eel Flounder Grouper Haddock Halibut Herring Kingfish Mackerel Mahi Mahi Orange Roughy Perch Pike Pollock Salmon Sardine Shark Snapper Sole Tilapia Trout Tuna Walleye

Insects: Grasshoppers Chapulines Ants Escamoles Bees Cockroaches Beetles Jumiles Larvae: Grubs Caterpillars Maguey worm Crustaceans: Crab Crayfish Lobster Prawn Shrimp Other arthropods Scorpions Mollusks: Abalone Clam Conch Mussel Oyster Scallop Snail (also see escargots) Cephalopods: Cuttlefish Octopus Squid Artificial meat: Imitation meat In vitro meat

[edit] Taxonomy and cuisine

Note that some classifications of meat are taxonomically paraphyletic, and hence are not listed above, such as seafood (which includes only some mammals) and shellfish (which is a collective term for mollusks and crustaceans, two very distantly related groups; within the mollusks, it also excludes land snails and cephalopods (octopus, squid, etc.)).