Top 10 Animals with 3 or More Colors

The Top Ten
1 Gouldian Finch The Gouldian finch, also known as the Lady Gouldian finch, Gould's finch or the rainbow finch, is a colourful passerine bird endemic to Australia.

Aka Rainbow Finch for a reason.
It has 7 colors - green, yellow, red, violet, blue/ turquoise, black (neck), white (lower part of the tail)

2 Wilson's Bird-Of-Paradise

6 colors - yellow, red, blue, black, brown, silver

3 Mandarin Duck
4 Mallard

7 or 8 colors - yellow, green, gray, brown, blue, black, white.
But we can say 8 colors because legs are orange (I think legs count).

5 Chrysochroa Fulgens A species of jewel beetle native to Southeast Asia, Chrysochroa Fulgens is known for its vibrant, metallic colors. Often collected for their aesthetic value, these beetles feed on plant matter and are generally harmless to humans.

6 colors - blue, yellow, red, green, brown, black (legs)

6 Peacock Butterfly

The number of colors may vary

7 Chameleon Chameleons or chamaeleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of old world lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015. These species come in a range of colors, and many species have the ability to change colors.

I am still counting them...

8 Red-Necked Tanager

5 colors - green, yellow, red, blue, black

9 Peacock Spider
10 Macaw Parrots, also known as psittacines, are birds of the roughly 393 species in 92 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions.

The number of colors may vary but these two on the image have 5 colors each.

The Contenders
11 Red Bird-Of-Paradise

It has more colors than you see on the image

12 Golden Pheasant
13 Budgerigar The budgerigar, also known as the common pet parakeet or shell parakeet and informally nicknamed the budgie, is a small, long-tailed, seed-eating parrot.

The one on the image has 4 colors - yellow, green, blue, black. But the combination of colors may vary, for example, some of them have blue instead of green, and white instead of yellow.

14 Umbonia Spinosa

It has a very avant-garde hat

15 African Wild Dog

I added this under the factual alternative name 'painted wolf,' and they posted it under the incredibly drab 'African wild dog'. PAINTED WOLF for Lycaon picta, if you please!

16 Himalayan Monal
17 Red-Bearded Bee-Eater

4 colors - green, red, white, black

18 Mantis Shrimp The mantis shrimp, or stomatopod, is a type of marine crustacean of the order Stomatopoda. Most species can grow to around 10 centimetres in length, though a few species reach up to 38 cm.
19 Marvelous Spatuletail Hummingbird
20 Hummingbird Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring 7.5–13 cm. they are the cutest birds in the world
21 Blue-ringed octopus The Blue Ringed Octopuses (Hapalochlaena) are the four strongly venomous species that are found on the coral reefs and tidal pools in the Pacific and Indian Ocean, particularly from Australia to Japan. It is known as one of the most poisonous and deadliest sea creatures. It can kill a human body by ...read more.
22 Clownfish Clownfish or anemonefish are fishes from the subfamily Amphiprioninae in the family Pomacentridae. Thirty species are recognized: one in the genus Premnas, while the remaining are in the genus Amphiprion.
23 Caterpillar
24 Ladybug
25 Toucan
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