Slender-horned Gazelle

The Slender-horned Gazelle (Gazella leptoceros), historically known as the Rhim, is an exceptionally pale, ghost-like desert antelope native to the deepest sand dunes of the Sahara Desert. Exquisitely adapted to survive in one of the most hyper-arid, scorched...

Pygmy Hog

The Pygmy Hog (Porcula salvania) is an extraordinarily petite and critically endangered suid holding the distinction of being the smallest wild pig on Earth. Standing barely ten inches high at the shoulder, this reclusive grassland specialist represents the sole...

Dwarf Blue Sheep

The Dwarf Blue Sheep (Pseudois schaeferi), or Dwarf Bharal, is a rare and diminutive mountain caprid confined exclusively to the steep, arid river gorges of the Upper Yangtze River in southwestern China. Morphotaxonomically distinct from the widespread Greater Bharal,...

Mountain Anoa

The Mountain Anoa (Bubalus quarlesi) is an extraordinarily petite, enigmatic forest ox found only in the rugged mountain wilderness of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Standing barely 70 centimeters at the shoulder, it shares the title of the world’s smallest wild cattle...

Tamaraw

The Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis), also widely known as the Mindoro Dwarf Buffalo, is an exceedingly rare, solitary bovine endemic strictly to the mountainous interior of Mindoro in the Philippines. As the largest native terrestrial mammal surviving in the Philippine...
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