Mammals > Hippopotamids & Artiodactyls
The Pygmy Hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) is an elusive, solitary forest-dwelling ungulate belonging to the hippopotamus family Hippopotamidae. Native exclusively to the vanishing primary rainforests and river basins of West Africa’s Upper Guinean...
Plants > Fabaceae & Fabales
The Jade Vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys), known natively in the Philippines as ‘tayabak’ and celebrated across international botany as one of the most mesmerizing and colorimetrically unique plants on planet Earth, is a colossal woody liana belonging to...
Birds > Rhynochetids & Eurypygiformes
The Kagu (Rhynochetos jubatus), affectionately revered in Melanesian culture as the ‘ghost of the forest’ for its pale, ash-grey plumage and eerie, dog-like morning barking duets, is an extraordinary, virtually flightless bird belonging to the monotypic...
Plants > Cactaceae & Caryophyllales
The Golden Barrel Cactus (Echinocactus grusonii), affectionately nicknamed the ‘mother-in-law’s cushion’ or ‘golden ball’, is an iconic, globally beloved globular succulent belonging to the cactus family Cactaceae. While cultivated by the...
Plants > Arecaceae & Arecales
The Coco de Mer (Lodoicea maldivica), famously known as the double coconut or sea coconut, is a legendary, colossal fan palm belonging to the monotypic genus Lodoicea within the palm family Arecaceae. Strictly endemic to two tiny granitic islands in the Seychelles...
