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The social big cat of the African savanna Humanity's oldest animal companion The largest cat species on Earth The world's favorite small predator African Elephant The largest land animal alive today Great White Shark The ocean's most famous apex predator The world's most fearless animal The world's most common bird The white fox of the frozen tundra The bamboo-eating bear of China's mountains The tallest animal on Earth The world's only scaly mammal The familiar puddle duck The smaller cousin of Africa's giant Mountain Gorilla The gentle giant of Rwanda's volcanoes Pygmy Hippopotamus The small forest hippo of West Africa Wandering Albatross The widest wingspan on Earth The largest animal that has ever lived Madagascar's nocturnal oddity Leatherback Sea Turtle The giant jellyfish specialist Japanese Macaque The hot-spring snow monkey of Japan The ancestor of the domestic dog The stealthy, tree-climbing big cat Southern Cassowary The world's most dangerous bird The widespread bear of the Northern Hemisphere The domestic cattle that feeds the world The largest land carnivore, ruler of the Arctic The largest living primate North America's iconic brown bear The shape-shifting genius of the sea Antarctica's apex predator Hawksbill Sea Turtle The tortoiseshell turtle Clouded Leopard The tree-climbing cat of Asian rainforests The deep-diving giant with the largest brain Tasmanian Devil Australia's feisty marsupial scavenger Alligator Snapping Turtle The prehistoric lure-fishing giant of American rivers Indian Rhinoceros The armour-plated one-horned giant The fiery-furred resident of the Himalayas Philippine Tarsier The wide-eyed nocturnal primate The heaviest bony fish American Black Bear North America's adaptable forest bear The colourful fly-fisher's favourite Bottlenose Dolphin One of the ocean's most intelligent animals The armored giant with a horn of keratin The forest giraffe of the Congo The world's most colourful primate Black Rhinoceros Africa's hook-lipped browser in crisis California Condor North America's largest flying land bird Geoffroy's Spider Monkey The long-limbed acrobat of Central American forests The black-and-white gardener of Asian rainforests Przewalski's Horse The last truly wild horse The ocean's top predator Northern Elephant Seal The deep-diving seal giant White Rhinoceros The square-lipped giant of African grasslands The Arctic migrator and both-sex antlered deer Flightless nocturnal parrot of New Zealand The fastest land animal on Earth The striped wild horse of the African plains White-handed Gibbon The singing ape of the canopy The whip-tailed hunter The bugling giant of North American meadows The tusked giant of the Arctic ice The peaceful ape of the Congo Basin Labyrinth fish famous for vivid fins Living-fossil lobe-finned fish Common Squirrel Monkey The tiny big-brained monkey of the Amazon Red-necked Wallaby The rusty-shouldered grazer of eastern Australia Sumatran Rhinoceros The smallest, hairiest — and rarest — rhino Goodfellow's Tree-kangaroo The golden-striped kangaroo that lives in trees Our closest living relative Proboscis Monkey Borneo's big-nosed swimmer The white whale of the Arctic Africa's fast and feared elapid snake The roaring stag of Eurasian woodlands South America's two-metre tongue specialist The rarest rhino on Earth Iconic red-and-blue rainforest parrot Emperor Penguin The largest penguin, built for the Antarctic winter The animal that carried human history The pink filter-feeder that stands on one leg African Wild Dog Africa's cooperative pack hunter Loggerhead Sea Turtle The powerful-jawed sea turtle The tufted forest hunter of Europe and Asia The ancestor of the domestic pig Channel Catfish North America's whiskered bottom feeder The fish-hunting raptor of coasts and lakes World's most venomous snake by lab toxicity The acrobatic singer of the seas Banded Mongoose The cobra's agile rival North American Beaver Nature's engineer of wetlands The sleek greyhound of the seas The black-and-white forest gardener Common US pit viper with hourglass bands Atlantic Puffin Clown-billed seabird of North Atlantic cliffs Second-largest fish; gentle plankton feeder The salamander that never grows up and can regrow body parts The slowest mammal on Earth The reef fish that lives among stinging tentacles The tiny desert fox with enormous ears The gnu of the great migration The intelligent farm mammal Sand Tiger Shark The toothy aquarium shark North America's adaptable wild cat Australia's wild dog of the outback The smallest bear of Southeast Asia's rainforests Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Australia's loud crested parrot The crowing guardian of the barnyard flock Nocturnal gliding marsupial of eucalypt forests Tallest North American bird and conservation icon The fish-hunting raptor and national bird of the United States The friendly desert lizard and favorite pet reptile The fierce scavenger of the boreal north Africa's adaptable monkey The honking V-formation flyer The classic pocket-sized pet rodent The big-eared deer of western North America Long-legged raptor that stamps snakes Reticulated Python World's longest snake Australia's iconic eucalyptus-eating marsupial The tool-using keystone of the kelp forest The gentle sea cow of warm coastal waters Africa's ant-eating oddity The playful domestic mustelid Capuchin Monkey The clever New World monkey The agile browser The docile reef bottom-dweller The gentle social rodent from the Andes India's shaggy insect-eating bear Rhinoceros Hornbill The thunderbird of Borneo's rainforest Peach-faced Lovebird Africa's pocket parrot that bonds for life Short-beaked Echidna Spiny egg-laying anteater of Australia Venomous cobweb spider with a red hourglass Giant New World vulture of the Andes Largest flying parrot, cobalt blue Bulbous-nosed steppe antelope of Central Asia Leafy Seadragon Seaweed-camouflaged relative of seahorses The Americas' largest and most powerful cat The ancient, brainless drifter of the seas The loudest land animal in the Americas Australia's flightless giant The soft-furred rodent of the Andes Spectacled Bear The only bear native to South America The spotted cat of the Americas Common Pheasant The ring-necked game bird of field and forest Great Barracuda Torpedo-shaped reef ambush predator Alpine parrot renowned for curiosity Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake Largest rattlesnake of North America Chinese Giant Salamander World's largest amphibian The most widespread wild carnivore on Earth The elusive ghost of the mountains American Alligator The armored survivor of the southern swamps The color-changing lizard with 360-degree eyes The egg-laying, duck-billed mammal of Australia The wallowing bovine of Asia North America's dancing crane Humanity's oldest livestock Nine-Banded Armadillo North America's armoured digger The tufted hunter of Africa and Asia Africa's long-legged pounce specialist Largemouth Bass America's favourite freshwater game fish Giant swamp bird with a shoe-shaped bill Fastest land mammal in the Americas Heavy African viper linked to many snakebites Iconic diving bird of northern lakes Eyelash-crested gecko of New Caledonia Africa's deadliest large land mammal The masked, clever-handed night raider The dazzling showman of the bird world The Ice Age survivor of the Arctic The tundra rodent of myth The plunge-diving fisher Africa's tusked savanna pig The gentle sea cow of the Indo-Pacific The singing island finch of parlours worldwide Hovering falcon of fields and roadsides Cat-like apex predator of Madagascar Largetooth Sawfish Giant ray with a toothed rostral saw Blue-footed Booby Plunge-diving seabird with vivid blue feet Heavy rainforest viper with huge fangs Saltwater Crocodile The largest living reptile and most powerful bite on Earth The fast-breeding pet and classic prey animal The gentle constrictor that curls into a ball The agile, barking acrobat of the coast The tusked unicorn of the sea Spectacled Caiman The common crocodilian of the Americas Thomson's Gazelle The small antelope of the Serengeti The horse-faced seal of the Atlantic North America's ground bird Eastern Box Turtle North America's hinged turtle The Andean pack animal and flock guardian The adaptable wild dog of three continents The fish that built Atlantic nations Living-fossil reptile unique to New Zealand Large African water monitor and egg predator Mountain sheep with massive curling horns Ubiquitous sparrow of towns and farms South Island Takahe Flightless purple swamphen of New Zealand Common Garter Snake Familiar harmless snake of North American yards Weedy Seadragon Australia's colourful weedy seadragon The largest marsupial and a powerful hopper The large, hairy spider with a gentle reputation Black-tailed Prairie Dog The keystone burrower of the plains Eastern Coral Snake Brightly banded venomous elapid of the Southeast Long-eared desert bandicoot Sure-footed climber of North American peaks Deep-sea shark with a protrusible jaw The world's longest venomous snake The cooperative sentinel of the Kalahari Ring-Tailed Lemur Madagascar's striped-tailed, sun-bathing primate The world's most popular pet fish South Africa's pronking antelope Europe's chimney-nesting messenger The pond slider of North America The Andean fleece specialist The smallest and most abundant rorqual North America's pond-building rodent Horned rattlesnake that sidewinds across dunes Diurnal termite-eating marsupial Magnificent Frigatebird Aerial pirate with a scarlet throat pouch Superb Lyrebird Master mimic of Australian forests Veiled Chameleon Tall-casqued chameleon of the Arabian Peninsula World's longest bony fish Monarch Butterfly The insect that migrates thousands of miles North America's weather-watching marmot Great Spotted Woodpecker Europe's drumming carpenter North American Porcupine The quilled climber of northern forests Ant farmers that cut leaves to grow fungus Spotted-tailed Quoll Largest mainland Australian marsupial carnivore Colour-changing hare of northern forests Arboreal African snake with potent venom The largest lizard on Earth The ghostly, heart-faced night hunter The semi-aquatic mustelid The patient wetland hunter The hardy working companion of arid lands Brown Recluse Spider The violin-marked spider of the American South Blue-tongued Skink Stocky Australian skink with a blue tongue Northern Goshawk Powerful forest hawk of the north Acrobatic garden tit of Europe Wild Andean camelid with ultrafine wool Jesus Christ lizard that runs on water The tiny fish where fathers give birth The agile forest mustelid The blood-feeding pest of mattresses worldwide Fork-tailed aerial insectivore of farms Spiky desert lizard that drinks via skin channels Bold black-capped tit of Eurasian gardens

Wild South American camelid ancestor of the llama Green Sea Turtle The gentle, long-lived grazer of tropical seas White-tailed Deer The Americas' most familiar deer The shy, spotted true seal of northern coasts Northern Flying Squirrel North America's gliding rodent The largest and fastest bird on land Britain's beloved red-breasted garden bird The largest fish in the world The ermine in winter white Blacklegged Tick The Lyme disease vector of eastern forests Widespread European pond newt Blind cave salamander of European karst American Goldfinch Bright yellow finch of North American fields Arboreal mustelid that can prey on porcupines Nocturnal scavenger of Africa and Asia Famed nocturnal songster of European spring Nomadic swarm-raiding ants of the Neotropics Termite-eating hyena relative of African plains Spirally horned antelope of the Indian plains Shortfin Mako Shark The fastest shark in the ocean The pollinator that powers much of the food we eat The spiny night-time garden visitor North America's adaptable 'song dog' New Zealand's flightless nocturnal bird with nostrils at the tip of its bill The glossy black genius of the bird world The colorful fighter of Southeast Asian waters The tiny insectivore with a fierce appetite Colour-changing lizard of southern US gardens Huge-eared fox that listens for insects Largest Asian antelope, also called blue bull Poison Dart Frog Tiny, brilliantly colored, and among the most toxic animals alive The agile, tree-climbing rodent of parks and woods The world's most widespread small rodent The bold, brilliant problem-solver of the crow family The spotted beetle gardeners love Galápagos Tortoise The giant tortoise that can live over a century Rock-dwelling desert lizard that inflates to wedge itself Tiny antelope that whistles when alarmed The playful, water-loving member of the weasel family Fully aquatic salamander with external gills The only mammals capable of true flight The world's largest rodent The clever, adaptable rodent that lives everywhere humans do Ruby-throated Hummingbird A tiny hovering bird with a blazing throat The city bird with an extraordinary sense of direction Atlantic Salmon The fish that swims upriver to spawn The tireless team-working insect The world's largest land arthropod and tree-climbing island giant Indian Stick Insect Master of twig camouflage The desert traveler that thrives without water The graceful giant of lakes and rivers Africa's largest and most formidable predator of the rivers North America's largest land animal The wide-ranging big cat with many names The smiling marsupial of Western Australia African Grey Parrot One of the most intelligent talking birds The glossy garden thrush with a golden song Hammerhead Shark The shark with a head like a hammer Red-bellied Piranha The sharp-toothed fish of the Amazon The Southeast Asian insect that mimics a flower to lure and ambush prey Giant House Spider Britain's large but harmless funnel-weaving house spider The heaviest snake in the world The largest member of the deer family The striped night-digger of British woodlands The ornamental carp of garden ponds The wide-ranging scavenger of warm seas The deep-sea fish that only looks like a blob out of water Boa Constrictor The powerful constricting snake of the Americas Northern Harrier Owl-faced hawk of North American marshes Roseate Spoonbill Pink wader with a sweeping spoon bill American White Ibis Red-billed white wader of the Southeast Tactile-fishing stork of southern swamps Giant stork of Neotropical wetlands Satin Bowerbird Blue-black architect of forest bowers Northern Gannet Plunge-diving giant of Atlantic cliffs Pear-egg diver of northern sea cliffs Willow Ptarmigan Snow-white grouse of Arctic willows Drumming phantom of northern woods Stubble-dwelling partridge of old farmlands Common Chaffinch Pink-breasted songbird of European woods Common Starling Speckled invader of global cityscapes Screaming aerialist of summer rooftops Large Flying Fox Endangered fruit bat of island canopies Guereza Colobus Black-and-white leaf monkey of African canopy Alarm-calling savanna primate of Africa Verreaux's Sifaka Dancing lemur of Madagascar's spiny forest European Polecat Wild ancestor of the domestic ferret Nine-banded Armadillo Armoured digger marching through the Americas Collared Peccary Collared herd animal of American scrublands White horned climber of northern peaks Rubber-hoofed dancer of African kopjes Long-nosed Bandicoot Nocturnal digger of Australian leaf litter Spotted Tasmanian survivor lost from the mainland Lightning-fast elapid of Australian cane fields Emerald Tree Boa Emerald coil of the Amazon canopy Green Tree Python Lime-green python of Papuan rainforests Panther Chameleon Locale-coloured chameleon of Madagascar Flat frog that grows babies in its back Golden Mantella Critically Endangered orange gem of Madagascar Thumb-sized herald of eastern spring Pacific Tree Frog West Coast chorus frog behind the movie ribbit Australian Lungfish Queensland river survivor from the age of dinosaurs Megamouth Shark Deep-sea filter ghost discovered in 1976 Yellow coastal shark of mangrove nurseries Oceanic Whitetip Shark Critically Endangered lord of the open ocean Warm-blooded hunter of cold Atlantic seas Cookiecutter Shark Bioluminescent plug-biter of the deep Bioluminescent commuter of the twilight zone Fang-faced ambusher of the abyss Pelican-jawed phantom of the abyss Seagrass-munching hammerhead of warm shallows Common Guitarfish Critically Endangered shovel ray of sandy coasts Mediterranean voltage trap of the sandy seabed Critically Endangered nacre snail of Pacific kelp Soft recycler of tropical reef sediments Buried flower of Atlantic sand flats Leathery giant of Pacific tidepools Filter-feeding crinoid that walks on cirri Arm-dropping filter feeder of Atlantic gravel Cube-shaped killer of Australian shallows Glass-disc drifter of harbours worldwide Cavitation snapper of reef burrows Japanese Spider Crab Record-span scavenger of Pacific depths Chambered Nautilus Vulnerable coiled survivor of deep reefs Detritus-eating cape of the oxygen minimum zone Fin-flapping octopus of the abyssal plain Giant Pacific Octopus Largest octopus of the North Pacific Near-indestructible moss dweller under the microscope Slime-shooting living fossil of leaf litter Shell-less winged hunter of polar seas Crown-of-thorns Starfish Spiny coral scourge of Indo-Pacific reefs Wood-boring giant bee of eastern gardens The great ape of the Southeast Asian rainforest The white owl of the Arctic tundra The gentle giant that flies through the sea Atlantic Bluefin Tuna The warm-blooded ocean speedster The shark that swims into freshwater The tiny insect with an outsized impact The fuzzy, hard-working pollinator of meadows and gardens The tiny nudibranch that went viral for looking like a miniature rabbit The social, powerful hunter of the African savanna The ocean hunter armed with a sword The flat-bodied ray with a venomous tail The fish that generates powerful electric shocks The yellow-and-black predator and scavenger of summer The color-changing master of camouflage Black Widow Spider The glossy black spider with the red hourglass The powerful Australian digger famous for cube-shaped droppings The striped, cheek-stuffing squirrel of North America American Bullfrog North America's largest and loudest frog The rainforest bird with the giant colorful bill The bright blue reef fish from Finding Nemo The colorful beginner's aquarium fish The 100-year reproductive mystery that baffled scientists from Aristotle to the 21st century The glowing beetle of warm summer nights Asian Giant Hornet The world's largest hornet The five-armed drifter that regrows its limbs The swift swimming crab of Atlantic estuaries Peacock Mantis Shrimp The reef brawler with the fastest punch in nature The tiny reef-building animals of tropical seas Western Diamondback Rattlesnake The venomous pit viper with a warning rattle The gentle, colorful beginner's pet snake Snapping Turtle The powerful-jawed freshwater turtle of North America The reef-dwelling eel with hidden jaws The loud summer singer with a long underground youth Atlantic Horseshoe Crab The ancient living fossil with blue blood The big-eyed spider that pounces on its prey The lizard that flares a dramatic neck frill Asian Water Monitor One of the largest lizards in the world The only mammal that lives entirely on blood The black-and-white mammal with a chemical defence The warty garden toad of Europe Atlantic Puffin The colorful 'sea parrot' of the North Atlantic The little Australian parakeet and world's most popular pet bird Peregrine Falcon The fastest animal on the planet The fish that inflates into a spiky ball The patient ambush predator with folded arms The colony-building recycler of dead wood The large beetle with antler-like jaws The familiar fly found wherever people live The elusive deep-sea giant with enormous eyes Chambered Nautilus The living-fossil cephalopod in a spiral shell The fast, venomous predator with many legs The spotted desert gecko and beginner-friendly pet One of the few venomous lizards One of North America's most common and widespread snakes Britain's only venomous snake The round, big-mouthed horned frog One of the largest and fastest birds of prey The strong beetle that rolls balls of dung The large, pale-green silk moth with long tails American Lobster The long-lived clawed crustacean of cold seas The slow, many-legged recycler of the forest floor The fish-eating crocodilian with a long, narrow snout Britain's smallest carnivore, built for chasing prey into burrows North America's only marsupial Red-Eyed Tree Frog The bright-eyed icon of the rainforest canopy The color-changing tree frog of eastern forests Common Kingfisher A jewel-colored diver of rivers and streams The brilliant red parrot of the rainforest Northern Mockingbird The bird that learns 200+ songs and sings through the night The agile aerial hunter of ponds and streams The wingless parasite famous for jumping The large tree-dwelling lizard of the tropics African Clawed Frog The fully aquatic lab and pet frog Oriental Fire-bellied Toad The green toad with a warning-red belly The plump, bright-red frog of Madagascar Red-tailed Hawk North America's most familiar soaring hawk One of the world's most intelligent birds The deep-sea hunter with a glowing lure Emperor Scorpion The large, glowing arachnid with a stinging tail The world's most endangered marine mammal The long-legged sprinter of open fields Spotted Salamander The yellow-spotted salamander of eastern forests The crested Australian parrot known for whistling The familiar wild duck found around the world The jumping insect of fields and meadows The crustacean that wears borrowed shells The tunnelling insectivore behind every molehill Great Horned Owl The powerful nocturnal hunter with feathered tufts The bold, noisy blue songbird of North America A large, toxic toad turned invasive pest The limbless, burrowing amphibians Northern Cardinal The bright red songbird of North American gardens The orange-breasted herald of spring Rhinoceros Beetle One of the strongest animals for its size The slow, shell-carrying garden mollusk The shaggy ox of the high Himalayas The largest frog on Earth The hardy survivor that lives almost anywhere The spiny ball that grazes the seabed The acrobatic leaper of the African savanna Fire Salamander The black-and-yellow salamander of European forests The chirping insect of warm evenings The soil engineer that enriches the earth The frog with see-through skin Nature's clean-up crew on broad soaring wings Tiger Salamander A stout, burrowing salamander of North America The reef-dwelling giant of the mollusks The mountain climber with sweeping ridged horns The frog that freezes solid to survive winter The newt with a bright orange land stage North America's giant, fully aquatic salamander The bold black-and-yellow social wasp The small, secretive ground bird of fields and grassland The long-billed wading bird of marsh and river The crimson-faced monkey of the flooded Amazon The wild sheep of the Central Asian hills The African ground squirrel that shades itself with its tail The see-through fish of the Amazon No animals found Try a different search term or clear the filters to see every guide.