Asian Animals

Panthera tigris tigris

The Bengal tiger is the most numerous tiger subspecies, primarily found in India, and is the largest wild cat native to Asia's forests, mangroves, and grasslands.

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.

Tursiops truncatus

The bottlenose dolphin is one of the most widely-recognized and intelligent marine mammals, found in temperate and tropical oceans worldwide.

Amphiprion ocellaris

The clownfish is a small, brightly-colored reef fish famous for its symbiotic relationship with sea anemones, whose stinging tentacles it is immune to.

Coturnix coturnix

The common quail is a small, secretive ground-dwelling bird that migrates annually between Europe, Africa, and Asia, more often heard than seen in dense grassland.

Camelus dromedarius

The dromedary, or one-humped camel, is a large desert mammal domesticated thousands of years ago and superbly adapted to surviving extreme heat and long stretches without water.

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.

Canis lupus

The gray wolf is the largest wild member of the dog family, once ranging across nearly the entire Northern Hemisphere and living in tightly-coordinated family packs.

Phoenicopterus roseus

The greater flamingo is the largest and most widespread flamingo species, found wading in large flocks through shallow saline lakes and lagoons.

Apis mellifera

The honeybee is a highly social insect essential to global agriculture, pollinating a huge share of the crops humans depend on while producing honey and wax.

Pavo cristatus

The Indian peafowl, commonly called a peacock, is a large ground-dwelling bird native to South Asia, world-famous for the male's spectacular iridescent tail display.

Ophiophagus hannah

The king cobra is the world's longest venomous snake, found across the forests of South and Southeast Asia, and is unusual among snakes for building a nest to guard its eggs.

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.

Panthera leo

The lion is one of the world's most recognizable big cats, known as the 'king of the jungle' despite living mainly on open savanna, and is the only cat species that lives in large social groups called prides.

Aurelia aurita

The moon jellyfish is one of the most common and widely-distributed jellyfish species, drifting through coastal waters worldwide in large seasonal blooms.

Ursus maritimus

The polar bear is the largest land carnivore on Earth, superbly adapted to hunting seals across the sea ice of the Arctic Circle.

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.

Enhydra lutris

The sea otter is the heaviest member of the weasel family and one of the few mammals known to use tools, cracking open shellfish with rocks while floating on its back.

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'.

Ovis vignei

The urial is a wild sheep species native to the dry hills and mountains of Central and South Asia, recognized by the male's large curling horns.

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.

Odobenus rosmarus

The walrus is a massive Arctic marine mammal easily identified by its long ivory tusks, thick blubber layer, and distinctive whiskered snout.

Bos grunniens

The yak is a large, long-haired bovine adapted to the extreme cold and thin air of the high Himalayan plateau, long domesticated as a vital pack animal.

Stegostoma tigrinum

The zebra shark is a docile, bottom-dwelling shark of the Indo-Pacific, named for the dark stripes seen in juveniles that fade into a spotted pattern as adults.