Random Animal Generator

Press Instant pick for a random animal or spin the animal wheel. Use the whole list or one group — mammals, birds, sea life, reptiles, bugs, farm animals and pets — for games, drawing and lessons.

How to use the random animal generator

1. Keep the full list of 114 animals, or narrow it down with a chip: Mammals, Birds, Sea life, Reptiles & amphibians, Bugs or Farm & pets.
2. Press Instant pick for one animal — or set How many for several at once.
3. Or spin the animal wheel and let the needle choose while everyone watches.

With No repeats ticked, a batch never has the same animal twice. Copy puts the result on your clipboard, one animal per line.

Games with random animals

• Animal charades: pick an animal and act it out without words or sounds.
• Twenty questions: one player secretly picks an animal, the others ask yes-or-no questions.
• Drawing challenge: pick two animals and draw a creature that mixes them.
• Fact race: spin, then everyone has one minute to say as many facts about the animal as they can.
• Story prompt: pick three animals and write a story where they have to work together.

For classrooms

The categories match how science lessons group animals, so a spin is an easy way to practise: is a penguin a bird or a mammal, does a salamander breathe through its skin, which of these animals lives in the sea? Teachers can paste the animals from their current unit into Entries, spin on the projector, and turn on “Remove winner after spin” so every student gets a different animal for a short report.

Your own animal list

Every list on this page can be edited. Add the animals your children love, remove the scary ones, or make a wheel of dog breeds, dinosaurs or zoo animals for a trip. Give some animals a higher weight in Advanced to make them more likely, and Share sends the list to others as a link. For a wheel with words of every kind, try the random word generator.