Plants > Malvaceae & Malvales
Grandidier’s Baobab (Adansonia grandidieri), celebrated worldwide as the most majestic and famous of all baobabs, is a colossal deciduous succulent tree belonging to the mallow family Malvaceae. Strictly endemic to the arid coastal lowlands of western...
Birds > Gruids & Gruiformes
The Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum), celebrated as the national bird of Uganda and prominently featured on its national flag and coat of arms, is an exquisitely beautiful, stately wading bird belonging to the crane family Gruidae. Inhabiting the permanent...
Plants > Cupressaceae & Conifers
The Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), celebrated across botany and evolutionary paleontology as one of the greatest biological discoveries of the 20th century, is a magnificent deciduous conifer belonging to the cypress family Cupressaceae. Believed by...
Mammals > Canids & Carnivorans
The African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus), known across natural history and conservation as the ‘painted wolf’ or ‘Cape hunting dog’, is a uniquely specialized, highly endangered social canid belonging to the family Canidae, native to the open...
