Indus River Dolphin

Mammals > Cetaceans

The Indus River Dolphin (Platanista minor), revered in the Sindhi language as the ‘Bhulan’, is one of the world’s most unique, ancient, and critically endangered obligate freshwater cetaceans. Diverging from ancestral marine cetaceans tens of...

Jentink’s Duiker

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

Jentink’s Duiker (Cephalophus jentinki) is the largest, rarest, and most mysteriously colored forest duiker on Earth. Discovered by Dutch zoologist Fredericus Anna Jentink in 1884, this heavyweight forest antelope wanders the deep, impenetrable primary...

Golden Langur

Mammals > Primates

The Golden Langur (Trachypithecus geei), also celebrated as Gee’s Golden Langur, is one of the most radiant, enigmatic, and celebrated primates in South Asia. Described for Western science by naturalist E. P. Gee in the 1950s, this sacred, leaf-eating colobine...

Pygmy Tarsier

Mammals > Primates

The Pygmy Tarsier (Tarsius pumilus), also known as the Mountain Tarsier, is the smallest, rarest, and most high-altitude tarsier on the planet. Barely larger than a tennis ball and weighing less than two ounces, this diminutive nocturnal primate was believed to have...

Cat Ba Langur

Mammals > Primates

The Cat Ba Langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus), also known as the Golden-headed Langur, is one of the rarest primates on Earth and a world-renowned flagship species for island conservation. Confined entirely to the dramatic, jagged karst limestone cliffs of Cat Ba...