161 emoji for animals and nature — pets, wildlife, plants and weather. Tap any character to copy it, or search the whole category by name.
The grid below holds every standard emoji in this category. Click one to copy it to your clipboard; use the search box above if you already know the name.
Animals and nature is the category that makes a profile feel alive. Cats and dogs sit next to farm animals, sea life, birds, insects, flowers, trees and the weather itself.
The cat and dog faces are the most used by a wide margin, followed by the butterfly, the rainbow and the leaves. Weather emoji — sun, cloud, rain — are the quiet workhorses of everyday small talk.
Unicode gives every emoji an English name. Knowing the name is useful, because it is what the search box matches and what other people use when they describe an emoji to you.
| Emoji | Official name | Usually means |
|---|---|---|
| 🐵 | monkey face | monkey face |
| 🐒 | monkey | monkey |
| 🦍 | gorilla | gorilla |
| 🦧 | orangutan | orangutan |
| 🐶 | dog face | dog face |
| 🐕 | dog | dog |
| 🦮 | guide dog | guide dog |
| 🐕🦺 | service dog | service dog |
| 🐩 | poodle | poodle |
| 🐺 | wolf | wolf |
| 🦊 | fox | fox |
| 🦝 | raccoon | raccoon |
| 🐱 | cat face | cat face |
| 🐈 | cat | cat |
| 🐈⬛ | black cat | black cat |
| 🦁 | lion | lion |
| 🐯 | tiger face | tiger face |
| 🐅 | tiger | tiger |
| 🐆 | leopard | leopard |
| 🐴 | horse face | horse face |
| 🫎 | moose | moose |
| 🫏 | donkey | donkey |
| 🐎 | horse | horse |
| 🦄 | unicorn | unicorn |
| 🦓 | zebra | zebra |
| 🦌 | deer | deer |
Every character on this page is a button, and the steps are identical on a phone, a tablet and a desktop:
Nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded. These are standard Unicode characters, so the device you are already holding knows how to draw them.
Ordinary text is safe everywhere. The problems start with two groups: characters that need a font the receiving device may not ship with, and applications that deliberately filter what you can type.
| Place | Works? | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram, TikTok, X bio and captions | Yes | Symbols and emoji both display; a handful of rare glyphs may render as a box on older Android versions |
| Discord display name and messages | Yes | Almost everything works, including the rarer box-drawing characters |
| WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal | Yes | Full support for emoji and symbols |
| Word, Google Docs, Excel, Sheets | Yes | Fine on a desktop; fonts on older Office installs may miss the newest glyphs |
| Most online games (usernames) | Sometimes | Many titles strip anything outside their font. Test with one symbol first |
| SMS | Yes, but | An emoji can push a message into a longer billing segment |
The practical rule: if you are decorating a bio or a document, paste freely. If you are building a username that has to survive a game login screen, start with one character, confirm it appears, then add the rest.