Forest Animals

Orycteropus afer

The aardvark is a nocturnal, burrowing mammal found across sub-Saharan Africa, best known for its long snout and powerful digging claws used to raid termite mounds.

Loxodonta africana

The African elephant is the largest living land animal, roaming savannas, forests, and deserts across sub-Saharan Africa in tightly-bonded matriarchal herds.

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

The bald eagle is a large bird of prey and the national bird of the United States, typically found near large bodies of open water with an abundant fish supply.

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.

Desmodus rotundus

The common vampire bat is one of only three bat species that feeds exclusively on blood, mainly targeting livestock across Latin America under cover of darkness.

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.

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.

Aepyceros melampus

The impala is a medium-sized antelope found across eastern and southern African savannas, famous for its explosive leaping ability when startled.

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.

Phascolarctos cinereus

The koala is a tree-dwelling marsupial native to Australia, spending nearly its entire life in eucalyptus trees on a diet that would be toxic to most other mammals.

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.

Setonix brachyurus

The quokka is a small wallaby found almost exclusively on a handful of islands off Western Australia, widely nicknamed 'the world's happiest animal' for its permanent smile-like expression.

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.

Cathartes aura

The turkey vulture is a widespread scavenger found across the Americas, playing a critical ecological role by cleaning up carrion using one of the keenest senses of smell in the bird world.

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.