Animals that start with M

Moles are small animals that are designed to burrow under the ground. Their ears and eyes are covered up and hidden. They eat insects like worms that live under the ground.

Mollies are a large group of small fish that are popular as pets.

A mongrel is a dog that you cannot tell what breed it is. Mongrels might simply be cross breeds, but are usually stray dogs that have been mixed breed for so long there is no way of telling what their ancestry is.

The moose, also called the elk in Europe, is the largest of the deer family. It lives in forests in North America and Europe. People have been hunting moose for food and their skins for thousands of years.

Moths are very similar to butterflies and have a similar lifecycle. They changes completely as they go through their life. A moth starts as an egg, which hatches into a caterpillar or grub. The caterpillar then spins a cocoon and turns into the adult moth. Caterpillars spend all of their time eating. Some moth caterpillars eat leaves, others eat leaf litter on the ground, and others will eat holes through the trunks of trees.
Moths are generally not as brightly coloured as butterflies, and are more likely to be seen at night than during the day. Moths are attracted to light.

A mule is what you get when you cross a male donkey with a female horse. All male mules and most female mules are infertile.
Mules make good working animals as they inherit many of the good traits from both donkeys and horses.

Muskrat is a medium-sized rodent with a thick, brown coat and a flat, rounded tail that helps it swim. It lives in and around fresh water like rivers, ponds, and marshes, building houses from plants near the water. Muskrats are strong swimmers and use their webbed back feet to move through the water, where they feed mainly on plants and also some small animals.

Mustangs are feral horses found roaming wild in North America.