Giant Eland

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

The Giant Eland (Taurotragus derbianus), also revered worldwide as Lord Derby’s Eland, is a colossal, magnificent spiral-horned bovid belonging to the cattle and tragelaphine tribe Tragelaphini, native to the open broadleaf woodlands and wooded savannas of...

Takahe

Birds > Rails & Cranes

The Takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri), officially known as the South Island Takahē, is an extraordinary, colossal flightless rail endemic exclusively to New Zealand, celebrated worldwide as one of the most iconic conservation success stories in ornithological history....

Arabian Oryx

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

The Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx), known in Arabic as al-maha, is an exquisite, medium-sized desert antelope belonging to the family Bovidae, historically native to the hyper-arid deserts and gravel plains of the Arabian Peninsula. Renowned for its luminous,...

Black-headed Bushmaster

Reptiles > Snakes

The Black-headed Bushmaster (Lachesis melanocephala), known in Costa Rica as the plato negro or cascabel muda, is one of the most magnificent, formidable, and elusive venomous serpents in the Western Hemisphere. Belonging to the pit viper genus Lachesis—which contains...

Goonch

Fish > Catfishes

The Goonch (Bagarius yarrelli), universally known across the Indian subcontinent as the Giant Devil Catfish, is an immense, prehistoric-looking predatory freshwater siluriform belonging to the Asian torrent catfish family Sisoridae. Indigenous to the roaring, snow-fed...