USA is the Bald Eagle, does the US have a national plant too?
Bahamas is the flamingo, Trinidad is the ibis and cocrico and Jamaica is the hummingbird. Any others?
A kangaroo for Australia?
Most do, AFAIK. India, for example, has the peacok, the tiger, and the lotus. Australia has the kangaroo and the emu (neither of which can walk backwards, thus symbolizing a refusal to back down) and the golden wattle. Here’s a Wikipedia list.
Sure, the Philippines has similar “national…”
Tree: Narra - Pterocarpus indicus
Bird: Philippine Eagle (formerly “monkey eating eagle”) - Pithecophaga jefferyi
Flower: Sampaguita - Jasminum sambac
Animal: Carabao (Water Buffalo)
Fruit: Mangga (mango) - Mangifera indica
Leaf: Anahaw - Livistona rotundifolia
Fish: Bangus (milkfish)
National Birds of all countries that have named them, as well as US and Australian states and Canadian provinces.
While Australia has a a national plant (Golden wattle IIRC) it does not have a national animal emblem. The are a kangaroo, an emu, a black swan, a lion,and an Australian magpie(maybe) on the coat-of-arms none of those is a national animal emblem.
The black swan is the emblem of Western Australia; the lion is on the Tasmanian flag and coat of arms, and the bird (a piping shrike) is the emblem of South Australia. They are there because the Australian coat of arms combines the states’ coats of arms.
But the kangaroo and emu are the supporters, and (at least unofficially) regarded as the national animal emblems of Australia.
From Wikipedia:
The Costa Ricans are proud to be extremely laid back, if such an expresion can be used. They only have one regret related to that: Nicaraguans were faster naming the Quetzal as their national bird.
Only kinda. If it were really a display of the state coats of arms it would also include thylacinea, rama, bulla, brolga cranes, mute swan and several other species. The point being that none of those species is a national animal.
The kangaroo, emu, wedgetail eagle, platypus and koala have all been considered unofficial national emblems, but none are official in any way. That contrasts with the status of the wattle as national plant or the official status of the bald eagle as USA national animal.
But sure, if people want to say that the koala is the ‘unofficial’ animal emblem of Australia or the cherry blossom is the ‘unofficial’ floral emblem of Japan knock yourselves out. Just be aware that these things are not actual national animals or plants as per the OP.
I’ve lost track of how many times it’s been said here before: Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information. I would really love to see some evidence for the canard that kangaroos and emus can;t wlak backwards. I’ve personally seen kangaroos walk backwards, and the idea that emus can’t seems equally fanciful.
And uhm, the bull is not an official symbol of Spain, like that webpage says. Please note “official”.
Yes, we call the Iberian Peninsula (Spain plus Portugal) “the bullskin”; this comes from the Romans. It’s the geographical location, our presidents are not going to walk hand-in-hand into the European Patent Office to register it.
Yes, there are those stickers with the Osborne bull… it’s a specific brand’s symbol that has outgrown its initial status; when the government said that all billboards had to be taken from the sides of roads because “reading the ads distracts drivers”, Osborne simply painted over the red letters; a lawsuit ensued where those bull silhouettes that had been in place over 25 years were declared landmarks and allowed to stay in place; the bull thus became a symbol of hrm… how to put this in English… “the people’s triumph over the government” even though the Osborne company isn’t exactly “the people”. Those bull silhouettes had always been considered kind of “cute” (it isn’t quite the right word) because they were silhouettes instead of rectangles.
Yes, several specific kinds of bullfighting (“corridas” and “encierros”) are heavily identified with Spain, although corridas exist in many other countries, same as rodeos aren’t exclusive of the US.
But no government has ever made the bull our national symbol and it is not, nor has it been at any point, in our flag or our coat of arms. We’ve had the imperial eagle, but not at this point. The coat of arms is formed by the coats of arms of the Kingdom of Castilla and León (of which Isabella was queen), plus the coat of arms of Aragón (of which Ferdinand was king), plus that of Granada (which she conquered and declared part of Castilla), plus that of Navarra (which he conquered), thus handing over to their grandson Carlos (in her case, via her daughter Juana) a combination of 4 kingdoms which is often referred to as “a unified Spain” (although it was not). So:
- Tower and Lion, for Castilla (castillo= castle) and León (yep, means Lion)
- bars for Aragon (representing dedication to a cause)
- chains for Navarra (representing freedom)
- pommegranate for Granada. But it’s not our official fruit
I agree. As I noted in an earlier post (here) the “can’t walk backwards” bit seems pretty suspect and isn’t mentioned on the official Commonwealth government site describing the coat of arms. It sounds awfully like a like a later addition. I’d expect to see that logic mentioned on the official government site if there were any contemporary evidence suggesting that a kangaroo and emu where chosen for the coat of arms for that reason, and not simply because they were uniquely Australian animals. And in fact, according to **Blake’s ** evidence, it’s not even true for kangaroos.
shrug I didn’t get that off of Wikipedia; I read it in a book about Australia that I was reading to my daughter a few weeks ago. If it’s wrong, then it’s wrong in a lot of books that are supposed to be good source material for country reports. But those books probably say that toilets flush the other way in Australia too, so what the hey.
Having given it some thought I suspect this legend started because people assume that kangaroos walk by hopping on two legs. I wouldn’t be surprised if kangaroos couldn’t hop backwards, but hopping for a kangaroo if the equivalent of a canter or gallop, and I doubt any mammal could gallop backwards.
In reality kanagroos walk on four legs and use their tail as a fifth walking limb. The body weight rests on the tail and hands and the hindlimbs are swung fowards, then the weight rests on the hindlimbs and tail while the hands are moved forwards, then the tail is dragged forwards. When a kangaroo wants to walk backwards it simply reverses that action. This is fairly common for kanagroos in tourist parks where they get fed. Being too lazy to stand up they will simply walk backwards to get at food that has been droped underneath them. Getting footage of kanagroos walking backwards would be simple.
Kangaroos walk backwards as easily as any quadripedal animal. They probably gallop backwards as fast as most quadripedal animals too, ie not at all.
The national birds and animals lists linked from the fifth post should probably be taken with a grain of salt. For example this was the first time I ever heard that the white stork was the official national bird of Germany. To my knowledge there is no official ‘national bird’ of Germany. The white stork is certainly iconic in a conservation context (has been named Bird of the Year in 1984 and 1994) but 90 % of white storks in Germany are Ossis nowadays which would make them a bit divisive as a national bird 
Some of the Wikipedia entries raised my eyebrows, too. Listing the unicorn & dragon for Scotland and Wales is stretching the definition of ‘animal’ quite a long way. And I don’t think I’d ever heard of lions representing England, outside of sport. And the robin for the UK? Hardly.
However, the plants have slightly more status, with the leek and thistle featuring on coins representing Wales and Scotland.
Well, the Dutch would have the tulip for an unofficial sympbolic flower; never mind that tulips originated in Turkey.
As for animals…like other countries, we have coat-of-arms sporting Lions, and every time another fit of soccer-frenzy hits the nation, soccer fans sing songs about the “Dutch Lion”.
In earlier times, the Stork was kinda an unofficial bird symbol, but no-one hardly knows that anymore.
We do have orange as an official color though. The Dutch national flag properly has a ribbon flying with it in bright orange.
…so, in answer to the OP: yes, a brightly orange lion. Or stork. 
The “pleitegeier”, maybe. But I doubt that there’s a suitable English translation.
For Europe things get trickier- many animals commonly reside in lots of ccountires. e.g. the fauna and flora of the UK and Ireland are almost identical, except that Ireland doesn’t have snakes.
Animals and Birds Ireland has used on coins: Horse, Hare, Bull, Seal, Woodcock, Pig, Chicken, Irish Wolfhound, Stag, Salmon.
Birds, trees, plants and animals feature a lot on Irish stamps.
Personally, I think the Irish themselves would probably chooses Shamrock as the plant and the Horse as the animal- we’re big on equestrian sports (especially if you count betting on horses as an equestrian sport, several thousand Irish people are enjoying the Cheltenham festival in the UK as we speak).
Those Wikipedia links should definitely be taken with a grain of salt.
National emblem:
Denmark: Lion
huh? - Oh, I see - it’ from the national coat of arms. A bit of a stretch, but…
National animals:
Denmark: Squirrel
Wtf??? I have no idea where this comes from.