Amphibians > Salamanders
The Long-toed Salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) is the strikingly painted, cold-hardy mountaineer of the Pacific Northwest and northern Rocky Mountains. Celebrated for its brilliant, jagged racing stripe of neon-yellow, chartreuse, or metallic gold running down its...
Reptiles > Lizards
The Red Tegu (Salvator rufescens), celebrated across South America as the ‘Tegu Colorado’, is a colossal, intelligent, rust-colored dragon of the arid Gran Chaco. Stretching up to four and a half feet in length and tipping the scales at over twenty pounds,...
Fish > Perciformes
The White Bass (Morone chrysops), affectionately hailed across the American Heartland as the ‘Sand Bass’ or ‘Silver Bass’, is the ferocious, silver-armored schooling predator of North America’s great lakes and river reservoirs. A true...
Birds > Coraciiformes
The White-fronted Bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) is an exquisitely painted, intensely social jewel of East and Southern Africa’s savanna waterways. Renowned for its complex, multi-tiered clan societies—one of the most socially sophisticated colonial nesting...
Mammals > Rodents
Franklin’s Ground Squirrel (Poliocitellus franklinii) is the reclusive, bushy-tailed phantom of North America’s endangered tallgrass prairie. Frequently mistaken for a common tree squirrel due to its long, flattened, furred tail and slender body, this...
