Scrawled Filefish

The Scrawled Filefish (Aluterus scriptus), also known as the Broomtail Filefish, is the largest member of the filefish family (Monacanthidae). Famous for its strikingly compressed body, broom-like caudal fin, and dazzling electric-blue squiggles and spots, this...

Asian Black Bear

The Asian Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus), affectionately known as the Moon Bear due to the prominent, cream-colored crescent blaze adorning its chest, is an iconic forest mammal of Asia’s mountain wilderness. Adapted to rugged montane slopes from the...

Indonesian Blue-tongued Skink

The Indonesian Blue-tongued Skink (Tiliqua gigas) is a robust, fascinating terrestrial lizard native to the warm, rain-drenched jungles of New Guinea and the Moluccan Islands. Famous worldwide for its fleshy, cobalt-blue tongue that it sticks out in a dramatic threat...

Gold Tegu

The Gold Tegu (Tupinambis teguixin), also known as the Golden Tegu or Colombian Black and Gold Tegu, is a large, powerful teiid lizard native to the tropical rainforests and river basins of northern South America. Reaching over one meter in length, this robust...

Hooded Skunk

The Hooded Skunk (Mephitis macroura) is a uniquely elegant, silken-coated mesopredator native to the desert canyons and scrublands of the American Southwest and Central America. Distinguished from its familiar cousin, the Striped Skunk, by an extraordinary ruff of...