Pelican Flower

Plants > Vines & Creepers

The Pelican Flower (Aristolochia grandiflora), also widely celebrated as the Giant Dutchman’s Pipe or Poison Hogweed, is a colossal, bizarre, and visually staggering woody liana belonging to the birthwort family Aristolochiaceae. Indigenous to the humid tropical...

Wunderpus Octopus

Invertebrates > Cephalopods

The Wunderpus Octopus (Wunderpus photogenicus) is one of the most spellbinding, charismatic, and celebrated marine invertebrates discovered in modern zoology. Officially described only in 2006, its scientific name literally translates from German and Latin to...

Paradoxical Frog

Amphibians > Frogs & Toads

The Paradoxical Frog (Pseudis paradoxa), also widely celebrated in natural history literature as the Shrinking Frog, is a legendary, semi-aquatic hylid anuran native to the warm freshwater wetlands, marshes, and river floodplains of northern and central South America...

Boomslang

Reptiles > Snakes

The Boomslang (Dispholidus typus), whose Afrikaans name translates evocative to ‘tree snake’, is a slender, extraordinarily agile rear-fanged serpent belonging to the colubrid family Colubridae. Indigenous to the savannas, thornvelds, and open woodlands of...

White-necked Jacobin

Birds > Hummingbirds

The White-necked Jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is an exceptionally striking, medium-sized hummingbird native to the lush, humid tropical rainforests of Central and South America. Renowned for its dazzling metallic plumage, deep cobalt-blue hood, pristine white collar,...