Top Ten Animals that are Known to Mate for Life

Note: Not every single animal of these species mate for life. It is just common for some or most.
The Top Ten
1 Wolves
2 Bald Eagle The bald eagle is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle.
3 Gibbon
4 Barn Owl
5 Swan Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus. The swans' close relatives include the geese and ducks.
6 French Angelfish
7 Beavers The beaver is a primarily nocturnal, large, semiaquatic rodent. Castor includes two extant species, the North American beaver and Eurasian beaver. Beavers are known for building dams, canals, and lodges.
8 Prairie Vole
9 Black Vulture

Not only do most Black Vultures mate for life, they are known to attack and sometimes kill other vultures who are caught cheating on their mates.

10 Sea Horse Seahorse is the name given to 54 species of small marine fishes in the genus Hippocampus. "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek word hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning "sea monster".
The Contenders
11 Emperor Penguin The emperor penguin is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.
12 Albatross Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm petrels and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes. They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. These large birds normally are able to fly around the world without even ...read more.
13 Canadian Goose
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