Addax

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

OverviewThe Addax (Addax nasomaculatus), also renowned as the white antelope or screwhorn antelope, is a critically endangered bovid representing the pinnacle of mammalian adaptation to hyper-arid desert life. Historically roaming across the entirety of the vast...

Bat-eared Fox

Mammals > Carnivorans

OverviewThe Bat-eared Fox (Otocyon megalotis) is an extraordinary, insectivorous canid endemic to the arid open savannas and short-grass plains of sub-Saharan Africa. Exhibiting a disjunct geographic distribution, the species occurs in two distinct populations...

American Marten

Mammals > Carnivorans

OverviewThe American Marten (Martes americana), frequently known as the pine marten, is an agile, semi-arboreal mustelid that inhabits the expansive boreal and montane coniferous forests of North America. Spanning from Alaska and the Canadian taiga south into the...

Brown Hyena

Mammals > Carnivorans

OverviewThe Brown Hyena (Parahyaena brunnea), historically referred to along the Atlantic seaboard as the ‘strandwolf,’ is an enigmatic arid-adapted carnivoran endemic to the desert basins and thornscrub biomes of southern Africa. Predominantly inhabiting...

Sable

Mammals > Carnivorans

OverviewThe Sable (Martes zibellina) is an iconic medium-sized mustelid native to the vast boreal taiga forests of Northern Eurasia, extending from the Ural Mountains through the Siberian wilderness to northern Mongolia, northeastern China, and Hokkaido, Japan....

Philippine Colugo

Mammals > Colugos

The Philippine Colugo (Cynocephalus volans), universally known across the southern Philippines as the ‘kagwang’, is one of the most anatomically extraordinary and biologically specialized gliding mammals on Earth. Often misleadingly dubbed the...

Eastern Quoll

Mammals > Marsupials

The Eastern Quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), traditionally known to Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples as the *luaner*, is an agile, charismatic, and fiercely predatory dasyurid marsupial native to southeastern Australia. Clothed in a thick, silky coat boldly polka-dotted with...

Giant Pangolin

Mammals > Pangolins

The Giant Pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) is the largest, most formidable, and most anatomically astonishing extant species of the ancient mammalian order Pholidota. Prowling the nocturnal shadows of central and western Africa’s equatorial rainforests, this colossal...

Matschie’s Tree-kangaroo

Mammals > Marsupials

Matschie’s Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei), also celebrated as the Huon tree-kangaroo, is one of the most visually stunning, ecologically specialized, and endangered arboreal marsupials in the world. Endemic strictly to the cloud-shrouded montane...

Tiger Quoll

Mammals > Marsupials

The Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), also known as the spotted-tailed quoll, is the largest surviving carnivorous marsupial on the Australian mainland and the second largest in the world, surpassed only by the Tasmanian devil. Draped in a rich, reddish-brown coat...