Jentink’s Duiker

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

Jentink’s Duiker (Cephalophus jentinki) is the largest, rarest, and most mysteriously colored forest duiker on Earth. Discovered by Dutch zoologist Fredericus Anna Jentink in 1884, this heavyweight forest antelope wanders the deep, impenetrable primary...

Golden Langur

Mammals > Primates

The Golden Langur (Trachypithecus geei), also celebrated as Gee’s Golden Langur, is one of the most radiant, enigmatic, and celebrated primates in South Asia. Described for Western science by naturalist E. P. Gee in the 1950s, this sacred, leaf-eating colobine...

Kaempfer’s Pitcher Plant

Plants > Caryophyllales

Kaempfer’s Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes bokorensis) is an exotic, spectacular carnivorous pitcher plant native exclusively to the mist-shrouded sandstone plateau of Mount Bokor in southern Cambodia. Formally described by botanists in 2009, this resilient tropical...

Delhi Sands Flower-loving Fly

Invertebrates > Insects

The Delhi Sands Flower-loving Fly (Rhaphiomidas terminatus abdominalis) is a magnificent, charismatic, and historic insect in American environmental history. Looking and behaving like a miniature golden hummingbird, this large, nectar-feeding fly hovers effortlessly...

Pygmy Tarsier

Mammals > Primates

The Pygmy Tarsier (Tarsius pumilus), also known as the Mountain Tarsier, is the smallest, rarest, and most high-altitude tarsier on the planet. Barely larger than a tennis ball and weighing less than two ounces, this diminutive nocturnal primate was believed to have...