Margay

Mammals > Carnivorans

The Margay (Leopardus wiedii), celebrated in Spanish as the Tigrillo or Gato Manchado, is an exquisitely spotted, highly specialized arboreal wild cat belonging to the ocelot lineage within the family Felidae. Indigenous to the continuous tropical rainforests and...

Fishing Cat

Mammals > Carnivorans

The Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) is an extraordinary, powerfully built semi-aquatic felid belonging to the leopard cat lineage within the family Felidae. Indigenous to the lush mangrove swamps, river floodplains, and freshwater marshes of South and Southeast...

Sika Deer

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

The Sika Deer (Cervus nippon), celebrated across Japan as the Nihonjika or simply the spotted deer, is a medium-sized, highly vocal, and extraordinarily graceful cervid belonging to the true deer genus Cervus. Indigenous to the temperate forests, coastal marshes, and...

Sable Antelope

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

The Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger) is a breathtakingly majestic, powerfully built savanna bovid belonging to the horse antelope tribe Hippotragini within the family Bovidae. Native to the wooded savannas, miombo woodlands, and open grasslands of East and Southern...

Nutria

Mammals > Rodents

The Nutria (Myocastor coypus), universally recognized in South America and Europe as the Coypu, is a massive, semi-aquatic rodent belonging to the spiny rat family Echimyidae (historically placed in its own family Myocastoridae). Native to the rich wetlands,...

Roe Deer

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

The Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus), also celebrated as the Western Roe Deer or European Roe, is a small, extraordinarily graceful cervid belonging to the Capreolinae subfamily within the deer family Cervidae. Widely distributed across the temperate woodlands, pastoral...

Muskrat

Mammals > Rodents

The Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), the sole living species in the genus Ondatra, is a robust, highly adaptable semi-aquatic rodent belonging to the subfamily Arvicolinae within the family Cricetidae. Native to the vast freshwater wetlands, marshes, and river valleys of...

European Badger

Mammals > Carnivorans

The European Badger (Meles meles), also known traditionally across Britain and Ireland as the ‘Brock,’ is a heavy-set, powerfully built fossorial carnivoran belonging to the weasel family Mustelidae. Renowned as one of the most charismatic, widespread, and...

Fin Whale

Mammals > Cetaceans

The Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus), widely celebrated as the Finback Whale, Common Rorqual, or Razorback, is an immense, streamlined marine mammal that reigns as the second-largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth, surpassed in sheer mass and length only by...

Stoat

Mammals > Carnivorans

The Stoat (Mustela erminea), internationally renowned in its pure white winter pelage as the Ermine, is a small, elongated, and extraordinarily ferocious carnivorous mammal belonging to the weasel family Mustelidae. Distributed across the circumboreal and temperate...