Cape Cobra

Reptiles > Snakes

The Cape Cobra (Naja nivea), celebrated throughout southern Africa as the ‘Koperkapel’ (Copper Cobra) or ‘Geelslang’ (Yellow Snake), is one of the most formidable, beautiful, and dangerously venomous elapids on the African continent. Possessing...

Salmon Shark

Fish > Lamniformes

The Salmon Shark (Lamna ditropis) is the fierce, warm-blooded sovereign of the subarctic North Pacific and a close relative of the Great White and Porbeagle sharks. Often described by mariners as a ‘miniature great white’ due to its heavy spindle-shaped...

Common Potoo

Birds > Nyctibiiformes

The Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus), legendary across Central and South America as the ‘Ghost Bird’ or ‘Urutaú’, is the undisputed master of avian crypsis and a worldwide internet sensation. Renowned for its bizarre, almost alien...

King Vulture

Birds > Accipitriformes

The King Vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) is the undisputed aristocrat of the Neotropical skies and one of the most visually extraordinary raptors on the planet. Revered in ancient Mayan hieroglyphics and religious codices as a divine intermediary between humans and the...

Dall Sheep

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

The Dall Sheep (Ovis dalli), celebrated across the North American Subarctic as the Thinhorn Sheep or Alaskan White Sheep, is a legendary, snow-white monarch of the northern mountains. Inhabiting some of the most unforgiving, glaciated alpine peaks on Earth from Alaska...