Japanese Badger

Mammals > Carnivorans

The Japanese Badger (Meles anakuma) is an ancient, medium-sized fossorial mustelid endemic exclusively to the temperate woodlands and agricultural foothill margins of the Japanese archipelago, specifically the islands of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. Historically...

Asian Badger

Mammals > Carnivorans

The Asian Badger (Meles leucurus) is a robust, fossorial mustelid distributed extensively across the diverse landscapes of Central, North, and East Asia. Historically classified as a subspecies of the European Badger (Meles meles), comprehensive morphological and...

Marbled Cat

Mammals > Carnivorans

The Marbled Cat (Pardofelis marmorata) is an extraordinary, small, arboreal felid inhabiting the dense, multi-tiered rainforest canopies of South and Southeast Asia. Holding an evolutionary position sister to the Asiatic golden cat and bay cat, this enigmatic predator...

Spectacled Porpoise

Mammals > Cetaceans

The Spectacled Porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica) is one of the most enigmatic, visually striking, and poorly understood small cetaceans patrolling the windswept, cold-temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere. First described from stranded specimens on the shores of...

Yellow-throated Marten

Mammals > Carnivorans

The Yellow-throated Marten (Martes flavigula), frequently referred to across its Asian range as the Kharza, is the largest, most arboreal, and most strikingly colored member of the genus Martes. Ranging from the icy boreal forests of the Russian Far East and the...

Harbour Porpoise

Mammals > Cetaceans

The Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is one of the smallest and most widespread odontocetes inhabiting the cold, highly productive inshore waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Found predominantly over continental shelves, within sheltered estuaries, and navigating...

Swift Fox

Mammals > Carnivorans

The Swift Fox (Vulpes velox) is one of the smallest native canids of North America, historically roaming the vast unbroken expanses of the Great Plains from the Canadian prairies down to the desert grasslands of northwestern Texas. Characterized by its diminutive,...

Red Deer

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

The Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), immortalized across centuries of art, heraldry, and folklore as the ‘Monarch of the Glen’ or Royal Stag, is a colossal, majestic cervid belonging to the deer family Cervidae. Native to the temperate broadleaf woodlands,...

Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin

Mammals > Cetaceans

The Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin (Sousa chinensis), globally renowned and celebrated across East Asia as the Chinese White Dolphin or Pink Dolphin, is an extraordinary, charismatic coastal cetacean belonging to the oceanic dolphin family Delphinidae. Indigenous to...

Grey Seal

Mammals > Carnivorans

The Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus), also widely celebrated across the British Isles and Scandinavia as the Atlantic seal or horse-head seal, is a large, imposing phocid marine carnivore native to the cold, turbulent coastal waters of the North Atlantic Ocean and the...