WCecil was a lion who lived primarily in the Hwange National Park in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. He was being studied and tracked by a research team of the University of Oxford as part of a long-term study.
WNola was a northern white rhinoceros who lived at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park near Escondido, California. At her death, she was one of only four of her subspecies overall. She was outlived by male Sudan and females Najin and Fatu.
WSarbi was an Australian special forces explosives detection dog that spent almost 14 months missing in action (MIA) in Afghanistan having disappeared during an ambush on 2 September 2008. Sarbi was later rediscovered by an American soldier, and was reunited with Australian forces pending repatriation to Australia. Her name is sometimes spelled 'Sabi'.
WSivuqaq, also known as Jocko, was a Pacific walrus at the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo California. He was 18 years old as of 2013. He has been the subject of a number of television and radio programmes, most recently focussing on the steps that his keepers have been taking to encourage him to father calves, which has in the past proved difficult for walruses in captivity. He was one of a number of walrus calves brought to Vallejo in 1994; the three other surviving walruses are the females Qiluk, Uquq, and Siku. They were orphaned as the result of hunting near the city of Gambell, Alaska, from whose Yupik name Sivuqaq takes his name. He died in 2015.
WTama was a female calico cat who gained fame for being a station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
WTillman was an English bulldog who held the Guinness World Record for "Fastest 100 m on a skateboard by a dog." He has appeared upon Greatest American Dog and is nicknamed Pot Roast. Tillman rode on the Natural Balance Rose Parade float since 2009. He is one of the stars of Who Let the Dogs Out presented by Petco on the Hallmark Channel. He died on October 27, 2015.
WTongdaeng, with variant spellings like Thong Daeng, was a female copper-colored mixed breed dog and one of the pets owned by King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
WUga is the official live mascot of the University of Georgia Bulldogs. Since Uga I's introduction in 1956, every Uga has been owned by the Sonny Seiler family of Savannah, Georgia.
WUggie was a trained Parson Russell Terrier famous for his roles in Water for Elephants and The Artist. His memoir Uggie, My Story was published in the United States, UK, and France in October 2012.