Fish > Cichliformes
The Peacock Bass (Cichla ocellaris), celebrated throughout the Amazon and northern South America as the ‘Butterfly Peacock’ or ‘Tucunaré’, is a dazzlingly colored, hyper-aggressive apex cichlid of tropical freshwaters. Despite its common name,...
Fish > Tetraodontiformes
The Titan Triggerfish (Balistoides viridescens), famously known to scuba divers worldwide as the ‘Titan of the Reef’, is the largest, most formidable, and notoriously fearless triggerfish in the Indo-Pacific. Stretching over two and a half feet in length...
Birds > Coraciiformes
The Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicoides), celebrated across Africa as the ‘Flying Ruby’, is one of the most breathtakingly gorgeous, gregarious, and vividly colored migratory birds on planet Earth. Clad in an incandescent plumage of glowing crimson-pink,...
Birds > Accipitriformes
The African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer), celebrated across the globe as the evocative ‘Voice of Africa’, is the majestic, white-headed fishing raptor sovereign of the continent’s rivers and lakes. Instantly recognized by its pristine snowy-white...
Mammals > Carnivorans
The Northern Olingo (Bassaricyon gabbii) is the secretive, golden-eyed ghost of the Central American rainforest canopy. Belonging to the raccoon and coati family Procyonidae, this slender, arboreal acrobat lives almost its entire life in the high treetops of Costa...
