Last updated on: 4/28/2023 | Author: ProCon.org

Glossary: Animals Used in Animal Testing

Below is a glossary of animals used in the United States for animal testing for fiscal years 2019-2021 (Oct. 1, 2019-Sep. 30, 2021) as reported to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A

addra gazelle (dama gazelle)

African dormouse

African elephant

African pygmy mouse

African soft-furred rat (multimammate mouse)

African swamp rat

African yellow house bat

Allegheny woodrat

Allen’s short-tailed bat

alpaca

alpine chipmunk

Alston’s brown mouse (short-tailed singing mouse)

Amazon manatee

American beaver

American bison

American black bear

American deer mouse

American false vampire bat

American least shrew

American marten

American mink

American pika

American pine vole (woodland vole)

American pygmy shrew

American red squirrel

American water shrew

Angolan soft-furred fruit bat

anoa (tamarau)

Antarctic fur seal

Arctic ground squirrel (Arctic souslik)

Arctic shrew

Arizona cotton rat

armadillo

Armenian hamster (migratory hamster)

Asian elephant

Asiatic black bear

Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine

Aztec deer mouse

B

Bailey’s pocket mouse

banner-tailed kangaroo rat

Barbary ground squirrel

Barbary sheep (aoudad)

bare-tailed woolly opossum

bat

beach mouse (oldfield mouse, or deermouse)

bear

bearded seal

beluga whale

big brown bat

big-eared opossum

bighorn sheep

binturong

black footed ferret

black rhinoceros

black-and-rufous elephant shrew

black-banded squirrel

black-shouldered opossum

black-tailed jackrabbit

black-tailed prairie dog

blind mole rat

blue whale

bobcat

bongo

Botta’s pocket gopher

bottlenose dolphin

bovine

Brazilian free-tailed bat

brow-antlered deer (Eld’s deer)

brown bear

brown long-eared bat

brush mouse

Bryant’s woodrat

Burchell’s zebra

bushy-tailed woodrat

C

cactus mouse

Cairo spiny mouse

calf

California bat

California mouse

California pocket mouse

California rock squirrel

California sea lion

California vole

camel

Canadian lynx

canyon mouse

cape ground squirrel

cape porcupine

Caribbean manatee

caribou (reindeer)

cat

cattle

cave Myotis

Central American cacomistle

Chapman’s zebra

cheetah

Chinese hamster

chipmunk

chisel-toothed kangaroo rat

cliff chipmunk

colonial tuco-tuco

common eland

common marmoset

common mole-rat (African mole-rat)

common tree shrew

common vampire bat

cotton deer mouse

cow

coyote

D

dairy cow

Damara mole rat (Damaraland blesmol or mole rat)

deer (wild/exotic)

deer mouse

Degu

desert cottontail rabbit

desert kangaroo rat

desert pocket mouse

desert woodrat

dog

dolphin

domestic chinchilla

domestic ferret

domestic goat

domestic guinea pig

domestic horse

domestic pig (including potbelly pig and micro pig)

domestic rabbit

donkey (burro, ass)

Douglas’s squirrel

Dromedary camel

Dulzurra kangaroo rat

dusky shrew

dusky-footed woodrat

dwarf sperm whale

E

eastern chipmunk

eastern cottontail rabbit

eastern fox squirrel

eastern grey kangaroo

eastern grey squirrel

eastern mole

eastern pipistrelle

eastern shrew mouse (shrew rat)

eastern spotted skunk

eastern woodrat

Egyptian fruit bat

elk

Elliots short-tailed shrew

ermine

Eurasian common shrew

European common vole

European rabbit

European mink

evening bat (vesper bat)

F

fallow deer

false killer whale

fat sand rat

fat-tailed dunnart

fat-tailed dwarf lemur

fisher

fossa

four-striped grass mouse

four-toed hedgehog

fringed bat

fulvous harvest mouse

G

Gambian pouched rat (northern giant pouched rat)

Gapper’s red-backed vole

gerbil

giraffe

goat

golden mouse

golden-mantled ground squirrel

Grant’s zebra

grassland rat

gray four-eyed opossum (grey four-eyed opossum)

gray fox (grey fox)

gray red-backed vole (grey red-backed vole)

gray seal (grey seal)

gray short-tailed opossum (grey short-tailed opossum)

gray whale (grey whale)

gray wolf (grey wolf; timber wolf)

great basin pocket mouse

greater bush baby

greater Madagascar hedgehog tenrec

greater white-toothed shrew

Grevy’s zebra

grizzly bear

ground squirrel

groundhog (woodchuck)

Guadalupe fur seal

guinea pig

Gunnison’s prairie dog

H

hairy-tailed mole

hamster

harbor seal (harbour seal)

Harris’s antelope squirrel

Hawaiian monk seal

heather vole

hinny

hippopotamus

hispid cotton rat

hispid pocket mouse

hoary bat

horse (wild)

house mouse

house shrew

humpback whale

I

Idaho ground squirrel

Indian grey mongoose

Indian muntjac

Indian rhinoceros

Indiana myotis (Indiana mouse-eared bat)

J

jaguar

Jamaican fruit-eating bat (Jamaican fruit bat)

Javan wild pig

jerboa

K

Kemp’s spiny mouse

killer whale

kinkajou

L

large mouse-eared bat

Largha seal

least chipmunk

least weasel

lemming

leopard seal

lesser Egyptian jerboa

lesser kudu

lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec

lesser mouse lemur

lion

little brown bat

little pocket mouse

llama

lodgepole chipmunk

Long-Evans rat

long-footed bat

long-nosed bat

long-tailed pocket mouse

long-tailed weasel

lump-nosed bat

M

marmoset

marsh rice rat

marten

masked shrew

meadow jumping mouse

meadow vole

melon-headed whale

Merriam’s kangaroo rat

Mexican long-eared bat

minke whale

Mongolian gerbil

Mongolian vole

moose

mountain beaver

mouse

mule

mule deer

musk ox

muskrat

N

naked mole rat

New England cottontail rabbit

Nile lechwe

Nile rat

nilgai

nine-banded armadillo

non-human primates

North American black bear

North American porcupine

North American river otter

North Atlantic right whale

northern bog lemming

northern elephant seal

northern flying squirrel

northern fur seal

northern grasshopper mouse

northern pika

northern pocket gopher

northern pygmy mouse

northern red-backed vole

northern right whale dolphin

northern short-tailed shrew

northern tree shrew

northern yellow bat

Eurasian lynx (northern lynx)

Norway rat (brown rat)

Nubian ibex

O

Oaxacan big-toothed deer mouse

ocelot

Oldfield mouse

opossum

Ord’s kangaroo rat

ox

P

Pacific pocket mouse

Pacific white-sided dolphin

Palestine mole rat

Pallas’s long-tongued bat

pallid bat

Parnell’s mustached bat

Patagonian cavy (mara)

pig

Pinyon mouse

plains harvest mouse

plains pocket gopher

plains zebra (common zebra)

polar bear

pony

prairie shrew

prairie vole

prehensile-tailed porcupine

pronghorn

Przewalski’s wild horse

puma (mountain lion, cougar)

pygmy killer whale

pygmy rabbit

pygmy squirrel

Q

R

rabbit

raccoon (ringtail)

rat

red bat

red fox (includes silver fox, cross fox)

red kangaroo

red squirrel

red tree vole

red wolf

Reeve’s muntjac

reindeer

Richardson’s ground squirrel

ring-tailed lemur

ringed seal

Roborovski’s dwarf hamster

Rocky Mountain goat (mountain goat)

S

sable antelope

San Bernardino kangaroo rat

San Diego pocket mouse

sea otter

seal

Seba’s short-tailed bat

Seminole bat

Senegal bush baby

serval

shadow chipmunk

sheep

short-tailed chinchilla

short-finned pilot whale

shrew

silky pocket mouse

silver-haired bat

skunk

slender-tailed meerkat

small Asian mongoose (Javan mongoose)

small Indian mongoose

smoky shrew

snowshoe hare

southeastern bat

southern bog lemming

southern elephant seal

southern flying squirrel

southern grasshopper mouse

southern multimammate mouse

southern plains woodrat

southern red-backed vole

southern short-tailed shrew

spiny mouse

spiny pocket mouse

spotted ground squirrel

springbok

squirrel

St. Paul island shrew

star-nosed mole

Northern sea lion (Steller sea lion)

Stephen’s kangaroo rat

Stephen’s woodrat

streaked tenrec

striped ground squirrel

striped hyena

striped skunk

subantarctic fur seal

sugar glider

swift fox

golden hamster (Syrian hamster)

T

tail-less tenrec

Texas mouse

thicket rat

thirteen-lined ground squirrel

tiger

Townsend’s chipmunk

Eastern pipistrelle (tri-colored bat)

African Spiny mouse (Turkish spiny mouse)

U

V

Virginia opossum

vole

W

watusi (steer)

Weddell seal

western grey squirrel

western harvest mouse

western jumping mouse

western mastiff bat (western bonneted bat)

western spotted skunk

western tufted-tailed rat

whale

white footed mouse

white rhinoceros

white-footed mouse

white-nosed coati

white-tailed antelope squirrel

white-tailed deer

white-tailed prairie dog

white-throated woodrat

wild boar

wild mouse

Wilson’s spiny mouse

wolf/dog hybrid

woodland jumping mouse

woodland vole

woodrat

X

Y

yellow armadillo

Yuma bat

Z