Mertens’ Water Monitor

Reptiles > Lizards

Mertens’ Water Monitor (Varanus mertensi) is one of the most thoroughly aquatic varanid lizards in the world, an elegant semi-aquatic predator endemic to the tropical riverways and rocky gorge pools of northern Australia. Named in honor of German herpetologist...

Javan Surili

Mammals > Primates

The Javan Surili (Presbytis comata), also known as the grizzled leaf monkey or Sunda Island colobine, is an elegant and endangered Old World primate endemic exclusively to the Indonesian island of Java. Confined to fragmented highland rainforests cloaking volcanic...

Nabarlek

Mammals > Marsupials

The Nabarlek (Petrogale concinna), also known as the pygmy rock-wallaby or little rock-wallaby, is an exceptionally diminutive and secretive macropod native to the rugged sandstone escarpments of northern Australia. Ranking as the second smallest member of the...

Spiny Turtle

Reptiles > Tortoises & Turtles

The Spiny Turtle (Heosemys spinosa), commonly known as the ‘cog-wheel turtle’ or spiny terrapin, is one of the most architecturally unique chelonians in the world. Native to the humid rainforest floors of Southeast Asia, this terrestrial geoemydid is...

Dingiso

Mammals > Marsupials

The Dingiso (Dendrolagus mbaiso), also revered locally by the indigenous Moni people as ‘bondegezou’—meaning ‘man of the forest’—is a distinctive, high-altitude tree-kangaroo endemic strictly to the misty Sudirman Range of West Papua,...