List of meat animals

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The following is a list of animals and their culinary names 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 Carabao Cattle Veal (calves) Yak Canids: Dog Fox Wolf Coyote Felines: Cat Equines: Horse Donkey Zebra Lagomorphs: Hare Pika Rabbit Marsupials: Kangaroo Opossum Wallaby Ovis (sheep): Lamb Domestic Sheep Bighorn sheep Caprae (goats) Domestic Goat Ibex Wild goat Barbary Sheep Dall Sheep Mountain Goat Suidae (swine): Domestic pig Peccary (Javelina) Wild boar Red River Hog Bushpig Venison (Cervidae): Caribou (reindeer) Deer Moose Antelope Giraffe Red deer 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 Earless seal Eared seal Other mammals: Bear Elephant Raccoon Rhinoceros Weasel Camel

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

Insects: Grasshoppers Chapulines Ants Escamoles Bees Cockroaches Beetles True bugs Jumiles Larvae: Grubs Caterpillars Maguey worm Crustaceans: Crab Crayfish Lobster Prawn Shrimp Other arthropods Spiders Scorpions Mollusks: Abalone Clam Conch Loco 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.)).