June 3, 2019

Blue-throated Macaw

Blue-throated macaws are often called barba azul in Spanish, meaning “blue beard,” because of the bright blue coloration covering their...

August 29, 2018

Crowned Lemur

Crowned lemurs, like all lemurs, are primates only found on the island of Madagascar, off the southeastern coast of Africa....

June 25, 2018

Huacaya Alpaca

Alpacas are a domesticated, social species that live in herds. Although they originated in Peru, they have now spread worldwide...

January 12, 2017

Komodo Dragon

Komodo dragons are Earth’s largest living lizards and are part of the large family known as monitor lizards.

January 12, 2017

Guatemalan Beaded Lizard

The Guatemalan beaded lizard lives only in an isolated pocket of desert in eastern Guatemala. Discovered by scientists in the...

January 12, 2017

Eastern Indigo Snake

Eastern indigo snakes are the largest native non-venomous snake in the United States. Rather than relying on constriction to disable...

January 12, 2017

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes are the largest venomous snakes the U.S. They are maligned and slaughtered, both opportunistically by rural citizens...

January 12, 2017

Southdown Baby Doll Sheep

Their name refers to their cute, teddy bear-like appearance and the fact that the breed was developed in the South...

January 12, 2017

Sidewinder

Sidewinders get their name from their unique form of side-stepping locomotion that is an adaptation for moving across loosely packed...

January 12, 2017

Wolf’s Guenon

The word “guenon” means fright in French and refers to the monkeys’ appearance (exposed teeth or grimacing) when excited. ...

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