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Animals are still probably the most popular thing to fold with origami. In this post we're going to take a look at a pretty diverse collection of different animals from all over the world. First up is this incredible warthog folded from a single sheet of 50cm x 50cm yellow washi paper.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79606072@N00/19809648558/ Warthog, Designed by Lionel Albertino and Folded by TERRY Nicolas Free diagrams available from Origami-Shop.com   Here's a beautiful looking wet-folded paper horse.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/42618819@N03/5128498447/ Horse, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by DebugMode Diagrams available in Origami Essence   Here's one of the best bull designs I've ever seen.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/papygami/13914207354/ Bull, Designed by Richard Ojeda Soto and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Drawing Origami Tome 1   This next one is a much simpler design but it may just be the cutest little origami pig I've seen. It's folded from a simple fish base.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/92285150@N02/17199918282/ Small Pig, Designed and Folded by Rainer Berg Diagrams available from Rainer Berg's Facebook page   Nguyen Hung Cuong's gorilla design is definitely the best gorilla out there, especially with all that detail in the face.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/25604109@N05/8960250321/ Gorilla, Designed by NGUYỄN Hùng Cường and Folded by Philippe Landrein Crease pattren available from NGUYỄN Hùng Cường's Flickr   Here's one of the best bison designs out there. This one crazily enough is folded from a thin sheet of copper, not paper!

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/65167262@N04/5933334804/ Bison, Designed and Folded by József Zsebe Diagrams available in Paper & Form Origami for Experienced Folders   Here's an adorable little racoon family.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/-sebl-/24070865906/ Designed and Folded by Sebastien Limet Instructions not available   This is one of my all time favourite fox designs. The model can be found in the book Origami Omnibus but the instructions are very limited. So limited that I haven't managed to figure out how to fold it yet. One day...

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79001419@N06/13692433704/ Fox, Designed by Kunihiko Kasahara and Folded by Gonzalo Very limited instructions available in Origami Omnibus   This hippo design isn't super complex but it's definitely expressive with a lot of character.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fabiancorrea/7178691797/ Hippo, Designed and Folded by Fabian Correa Instructions not available   This bear holding a paper crane is one of the most interesting origami designs I've seen. It's such a simple idea but the result is fantastic.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tschobigami/27204670392/ Erkner Bear, Designed by Sebastien Limet and Folded by Stefan Crease pattern available from Sebastien Limet's Flickr   Here's a pretty adorable looking chipmunk. It's folded from two squares of paper and the colour changes in the design really look great. I'm not entirely sure what "butter cake" is but I definitely like the sound of that.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kobashi_san/20490790743/ Chipmunk, Designed by Kyohei Katsuta and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi Instructions not available   Beth Johnson's sheep design is awesome. It uses one sheet of paper for the body and then another sheet folded into a tessellation pattern for the wool.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ronatka/16053874848/ Sheep, Designed by Beth Johnson and Folded by Natalia Romanenko Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #148   Sebastien Limet certainly has his own style and this deer he designed is completely unlike any other origami deer out there.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/-sebl-/16132685966/ Deer, Designed and Folded by Sebastien Limet Instructions not available   Here's an awesome monkey out in the wild. The banana is a really nice touch.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/foldedwilderness/14237680085/ Monkey, Designed by Lionel Albertino and Folded by Folded Wilderness Diagrams available in Safari Origami   Here's another absolutely fantastic looking paper horse. Technically it's a pony.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/104497452@N02/16753396570/ Pony, Designed by Kawahata Fumiaki and Folded by Jack Dreyil Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #142   Here are a couple more excellent pigs.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gen_hagiwara/4057432283/ Pigs, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara Crease pattern available from Gen Hagiwara's Flickr   And of course with a giraffe pun in the title of this post we had to include at least one origami giraffe.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fabiancorrea/16187455990/ Giraffe, Designed and Folded by Fabian Correa Instructions not available   Here's an adorable fox mother and cub. Two more absolutely fantastic fox designs.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/25604109@N05/18582121379/ Mother and Cub, Designed by Hoang Tien Quyet and Folded by Philippe Landrein Cub Diagrams available in the 15th Tanteidan Convention Book, Mother Diagrams not available   This is a really great coyote design. The colour change on the eye is very nice.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/papygami/13765718043/ Coyote, Designed by Richard Ojeda Soto and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Drawing Origami Tome 1   Here's a really fantastic looking giant anteater. Not a very common animal to fold out of paper.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12043525@N04/4592833533/ Giant Anteater, Designed and Folded by Quentin Trollip Instructions not available   These are some really great origami rhinos folded using Rhino Hide Paper of course.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79606072@N00/14198471966/ Bogota Rhino, Designed and Folded by TERRY Nicolas Instructions not available   Next we have probably the cutest little baby paper elephant I've ever seen!

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/110247861@N02/29342170341/ Elephant, Designed by Enrique Martinez and Folded by Mir Numan Crease pattern available from Enrique Martinez's Flickr   Seth Friedman's Finnish Lapphund is definitely one of the best dog designs out there.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jack_dreyil/29737940242/ Finnish Lapphund, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by Jack Dreyil Video instructions available from Seth Friedman's YouTube channel   Our final model is this fantastic looking Bactrian Camel.

Just as there's a huge variety of different species of turtles and tortoises in real life there's also a very diverse variety of origami ones too. First up is Satoshi Kamiya's awesome loggerhead turtle. The pattern on the back of the shell is fantastic.

Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by P. Colman Diagrams available in the 16th Origami Tanteidan Convention book Image source   Here we have a pretty cool design with a turtle made out of a tessellation pattern.

Turtle Tessellation, Designed and Folded by Melina Hermsen Instructions not available Image source   Here's a fantastic baby sea turtle design. I love how it's photographed here in mid-swim.

Baby Turtle, Designed and Folded by Nguyen Ngoc Vu Diagrams available in Drawing Origami Tome 1 Image source   This is one of the best tortoise designs we've ever seen. It totally looks like a real tortoise and you can easily imagine it slowly walking there.

Tortoise, Designed and Folded by Nguyễn Hùng Cường Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn Image source   Having this snapping turtle climbing up onto a crumpled up paper rock is a nice touch.

Snapping Turtle, Designed and Folded by Phạm Hoàng Tuấn Instructions not available Image source   Here's Nguyễn Hùng Cường's tortoise again but this time folded by a different artist.

Tortoise, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Philippe Landrein Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn Image source   Here's another take on Nguyen Ngoc Vu's sea turtle.

Sea Turtle, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Drawing Origami Tome 1 Image source   This Galapagos tortoise is folded from a single sheet of paper. It perfectly uses a colour change in the design so the shell and body are different colours.

Galapagos Tortoise, Designed and Folded by Quentin Trollip Instructions not available Image source   Here's another really awesome turtle design from Satoshi Kamiya. The feet and the pattern on the shell are awesome. P. Colman also really knows how to stage a photograph!

Turtle, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by P. Colman Crease pattern available from Satoshi Kamiya's website Image source   And here's Satoshi Kamiya's loggerhead sea turtle again but folded by a different artist this time.

Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by DebugMode Diagrams available in the 16th Origami Tanteidan Convention book Image source   Here's an excellent "green" turtle.

Green Turtle, Designed by Gerard Ty Sovann and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Pure Origami Image source   This is Nguyễn Hùng Cường's tortoise again folded by a different designer. It really is a fantastic design.

Tortoise, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Alex Satsukawa Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn Image source   Here's a new and quite realistic looking turtle design. The shiny paper used here really makes it look like a real turtle.

Turtle, Designed and Folded by Yoshimasa Tsuruta Instructions not available Image source   This is another new sea turtle design. Look at that tessellation pattern on the back of the shell!

Sea Turtle, Designed and Folded by Mauricio Flórez Instructions not available Image source   A lot of origami turtles use sort of a grid or tessellation pattern. Here's another design like this but this one is a bit more round than most others.

Leatherback Sea Turtle, Designed by Pasquale D'Auria and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Pajarita Magazine #126 Image source   This next turtle looks completely different from anything else so far.

Turtle, Designed by Eric Joisel and Folded by Andrey Ermakov Diagrams available in Olympiad 2015 Image source   Here's Nguyễn Hùng Cường's tortoise again photographed out in the wild.

Tortoise, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Phillip Curl Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn Image source   Here's Satoshi Kamiya's turtle again. I really like the close up on the face in this one and how it looks with the open mouth.

Turtle, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Alex Satsukawa Crease pattern available from Satoshi Kamiya's website Image source   Robert J. Lang has another really awesome turtle design.

Western Pond Turtle, Designed by Robert J. Lang and Folded by Jaime Niño Diagrams available in Origami Design Secrets Second Edition Image source   And here's one last tortoise.

Tortoise, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Nguyen TuanTai Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn Image source   Our final turtle for this post is designed by the amazing Kei Watanabe. Look at the individually folded scales on the legs! This is probably folded from a single sheet of paper.