Mammals > Bats
The Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus), celebrated historically as one of the most abundant and beloved small mammals in North America, is the delicate, glossy-furred aerial guardian of northern lakes and summer evening skies. Weighing less than a single coin, this...
Mammals > Bats
The Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus) is one of the most widespread, ecologically vital, and beneficial insect-eating mammals in North America. Cloaked in a dense, glossy, rich copper-brown fur coat with broad, leathery wings, this nocturnal aerial acrobat patrols...
Mammals > Cetaceans
The Indus River Dolphin (Platanista minor), revered in the Sindhi language as the ‘Bhulan’, is one of the world’s most unique, ancient, and critically endangered obligate freshwater cetaceans. Diverging from ancestral marine cetaceans tens of...
Mammals > Cetaceans
The Vaquita (Phocoena sinus), affectionately known in Spanish as the ‘little cow,’ is the world’s smallest and most critically endangered marine cetacean. Discovered by science in 1958, this shy, elusive porpoise is found nowhere else on Earth except...
Mammals > Bats
The Mauritian Tomb Bat (Taphozous mauritianus) is one of the most distinctive and visually striking microbats of the African continent and western Indian Ocean islands. Belonging to the sheath-tailed bat family Emballonuridae, it defies the stereotypical nocturnal bat...
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