Philippine Fauna
Land
Carabao
The carabao or B. bubalus carabanesis is a domesticated subspecies of the water buffalo found in the Philippines and various parts of Southeast Asia. Carabaos are highly associated with farmers, being the farm animal of choice for pulling the plow and the cart used to haul farm produce to the...
Tarsier
The Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta; also known as mawmag in Cebuano/Visayan ) is an endangered species endemic to the Philippines. It is found in the southeastern part of the archipelago, particularly in the provinces of Bohol, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. Its name is derived from...
Crocodile
The Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis) is a crocodile found only in the Philippines . It is also known as the Mindoro crocodile and the Philippine freshwater crocodile.
Once considered a subspecies of the New Guinea crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae), the Philippine crocodile...
Dwarf Water Buffalo
Water buffalo are members of the cattle family and are placed in the genus Bubalus, which includes four living species. Two species, Bubalus bubalis and B. mindorensis are closely related, and the new fossil species appears to be a close relative of this pair.
Water
Whale Shark
The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a gentle and slow filter feeding shark that is the largest living fish species. This distinctively-marked shark is the only member of its genus Rhincodon and its family, Rhincodontidae (called Rhinodontes before 1984), which is grouped into the subclass...
Orange Clownfish
The Orange Clownfish is an aquarium fish. Like other clownfish (also called anemonefish), it often lives in association with sea anemones.
Air
Eagle
The Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) is one of the largest, rarest and most powerful birds in the world. It is also known as the monkey-eating eagle, the great Philippine eagle or Haribon(Hari ng Ibon/king of birds).
Fruit Bat
Fruit bats are hunted by man for food. They are considered a delicacy in many regions in the country. Commercial fruit farmers drive bats away because they consider them as troublesome pests. This led to the extinction of some species of Philippine bats like the bare-backed fruit bat or Dobsonia...
Flying Fox
The Philippines indeed, has flying foxes, but they are not actually foxes that have wings. Flying foxes are actually bats that look more like miniature dogs with wings.They belong to the order Chiroptera and the family Pteropodidae. There are nine known species of flying foxes in the Philippines,...
Flying Lemur
Flying lemurs are unusual animals. They have a lemur-like face, but are not related to the primates. Indeed, they are unique to the mammalian class, having no living relatives. They are most noted for a membrane of skin that stretches from the neck to the forepaws to the hind feet to the tip of...