Rare Animals

Cacajao calvus

The bald uakari is a small Amazonian monkey best known for its strikingly bare, bright red face, found in seasonally-flooded forests along the Amazon and its tributaries.

Balaenoptera musculus

The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever existed, filtering enormous quantities of tiny krill from the ocean through baleen plates as it roams every ocean except the Arctic.

Pongo pygmaeus

The Bornean orangutan is a critically-endangered great ape found only on the island of Borneo, spending nearly its entire life moving through the rainforest canopy.

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

The giant panda is a bear native to the mountain forests of central China, famous for a diet made up almost entirely of bamboo despite a digestive system built for meat.

Phyllobates terribilis

The golden poison frog is widely regarded as the most toxic animal on Earth by weight, native to a small stretch of Colombian rainforest.

Dermochelys coriacea

The leatherback is the largest sea turtle species in the world and the only one without a hard bony shell, ranging farther into cold water than any other reptile.

Danaus plexippus

The monarch butterfly is famous for an extraordinary multi-generational migration spanning thousands of kilometers between Canada, the United States, and central Mexico.

Gorilla beringei beringei

The mountain gorilla is a critically-studied great ape subspecies living in the misty forested slopes of the Virunga Mountains and Bwindi in central Africa, and one of conservation's most notable recovery stories.

Monodon monoceros

The narwhal is an Arctic whale famous for the male's long spiraled tusk, which is actually an enormous protruding canine tooth, earning it the nickname 'unicorn of the sea'.

Ailurus fulgens

The red panda is a small, tree-dwelling mammal native to the temperate forests of the eastern Himalayas, unrelated to the giant panda despite the shared name and bamboo diet.

Panthera uncia

The snow leopard is an elusive big cat adapted to life in the high, cold mountains of Central and South Asia, so rarely seen it's often called the 'ghost of the mountains'.

Tyrannosaurus rex

Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest land predators to ever exist, dominating the ecosystems of western North America at the very end of the Cretaceous period roughly 66-68 million years ago.

Velociraptor mongoliensis

Velociraptor was a small, fast, feathered predatory dinosaur that lived in the arid deserts of what is now Mongolia around 75-71 million years ago, far smaller than its famous Hollywood depiction.