Blue Sucker

Fish > Suckerfishes & Loaches

The Blue Sucker (Cycleptus elongatus) is a magnificent, long-lived big-river fish belonging to the sucker family Catostomidae. Easily distinguished by its slender, torpedo-shaped body, sickle-shaped dorsal fin, and deep steel-blue or slate-black breeding coloration,...

African Finfoot

Birds > Finfoots & Rails

The African Finfoot (Podica senegalensis) is a bizarre, highly secretive aquatic bird belonging to the small, ancient family Heliornithidae. Neither a duck nor a grebe, this reclusive waterbird combines a slender, cormorant-like neck with a serrated bright orange bill...

Corncrake

Birds > Rails & Coots

The Corncrake (Crex crex), also known as the Landrail, is an iconic, secretive grassland bird of the rail family Rallidae. Famed for the loud, rhythmic, mechanical rasping ‘crex-crex’ song broadcast by males throughout summer nights, it has been...

Blue Duiker

Mammals > Antelopes & Bovids

The Blue Duiker (Philantomba monticola) is the smallest antelope in southern Africa and one of the smallest bovid species in the world. Standing barely a foot tall at the shoulder, this dainty forest dweller gets its name from the slate-blue or silvery sheen of its...

Black Flying Fox

Mammals > Bats

The Black Flying Fox (Pteropus alecto) is one of the largest bat species on Earth, native to northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea, and eastern Indonesia. With an impressive wingspan exceeding one meter and velvety, jet-black fur, this magnificent megabat serves...