List of solitary animals

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This is a list of solitary animals, which spend all or most of their adult lives in solitude. It includes species in which the adult female takes care of the offspring for a period of time.

• African golden cat
• African civet
• African palm civet
• American badger
• American mink
• American water shrew
• Arabian leopard
• Arabian red fox
• Arctic shrew
• Armadillo
• Aspiraculata
• Bamboo rat
• Badger^[1]
• Bear
• Black marlin^[2]
• Black rhinoceros
• Black-footed cat
• Blind mole rat
• Blue-tongued skink
• Boa constrictor
• Brown-throated sloth
• Bushbuck
• Bushy-tailed opossum
• Caracal
• Chalayne Beach
• Butted leopard
• Coast mole
• Common frog
• Cougar
• Crocodile^[3]
• Crown-of-thorns starfish
• Cuttlefish^[4]
• Dusky-footed woodrat
• Eastern pygmy possum
• European mink
• European polecat
• Fisher
• Fishing cat
• Four-horned antelope
• Four-toed hedgehog
• Frog^[5]
• Giant anteater
• Golden hamster
• Gopher tortoise
• Giant California sea cucumber
• Great white shark^[6]
• Grizzly bear
• Hawaiian hawk
• Honey badger
• Jaguar
• Japanese hare
• Javan rhinoceros
• Lemming
• Leopard
• Leopard tortoise
• Lionfish^[7]
• Lowland paca
• Maned sloth
• Marbled polecat
• Marten
• Mountain paca
• Mountain lion^[8]
• Mountain weasel
• Mud dauber
• Musk deer
• Neotropical otter
• Nine-banded armadillo
• Northern bettong
• Oarfish
• Oceanic whitetip shark
• Octopus^[9]
• Opossum
• Orangutan
• Paca
• Philippine mouse-deer
• Philippine tarsier
• Polar bear
• Pollen wasp
• Potter wasp
• Pudú
• Red brocket
• Red panda
• Red squirrel
• Rhinoceros
• Ringed seal
• Sailfish^[10]
• Sabertooth fish
• Scaly-tailed possum
• Serval
• Short-beaked echidna
• Siberian chipmunk
• Skunk
• Solenodon
• Solitary wasps
• Southern tamandua
• Spotted moray
• Spotted skunk
• Squid^[11]
• Steppe polecat
• Striped hog-nosed skunk
• Striped marlin^[12]
• Striped polecat
• Sumatran rhinoceros
• Swordfish^[13]
• Syrian hamster
• Tapeti
• Tasmanian devil
• Thylacine
• Tiger
• Triggerfish^[14]
• Vagrant shrew
• Water deer
• White marlin^[15]
• Wolverine
• Zokor

See also

• Solitary (animals)

References

1. "Badgers". http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Umatilla/Wildlife_Habitat/Badger.html. External link in |website= (help);
2. "Blue Marlin". http://wildoceans.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fish_file_3_bluemarlin_040511.pdf. External link in |website= (help);
3. "Supersize Crocs: Crocodile Secrets of Survival". http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/supersize-crocs-crocodile-secrets-of-survival/1750/. External link in |website= (help);
4. "Through the Eye of an Octopus". Discover Magazine. Retrieved Oct 2003.
5. "Frog Pets". http://www.abc.net.au/creaturefeatures/facts/frogpets.htm. External link in |website= (help);
6. "Great White Shark". http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/species/Greatwhite.shtml. External link in |website= (help);
7. "Lionfish". http://a-z-animals.com/animals/lionfish/. External link in |website= (help);
8. "Living with Mountain Lions". https://azgfdportal.az.gov/wildlife/livingwith/mountainlions/. External link in |website= (help);
9. "Through the Eye of an Octopus". Discover Magazine. Retrieved Oct 2003.
10. "Blue Marlin". http://wildoceans.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fish_file_3_bluemarlin_040511.pdf. External link in |website= (help);
11. "Through the Eye of an Octopus". Discover Magazine. Retrieved Oct 2003.
12. "Blue Marlin". http://wildoceans.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fish_file_3_bluemarlin_040511.pdf. External link in |website= (help);
13. "Swordfish". http://wildoceans.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fish_file_2_swordfish_121807.pdf. External link in |website= (help);
14. "Triggerfish". http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/triggerfish/?source=A-to-Z. External link in |website= (help);
15. "Blue Marlin". http://wildoceans.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fish_file_3_bluemarlin_040511.pdf. External link in |website= (help);