Freshwater

Tennessee Walking Horse

The Smooth Ride of Tennessee

Red-Billed Quelea Bird

The "feathered locust" weaverbird

Ghost Catfish

See-through swimmer, river-school ghost

Tire Track Eel

Tire-track camo, night-stalking hunter

Pipefish

Tube snouts. Bony armor. Dad does the brooding.

Blue Catfish

Forked tail. Big river muscle.

Steelhead Salmon

Sea-run rainbow, built to return

Cat-Eyed Snake

Night eyes, frog hunters

Fire Eel

Not a true eel-pure river fire.

Mamushi Snake

Small viper, big heat-sensing precision

Needlefish

Built for speed at the surface

Yarara

Lanceheads: silent heat-seeking ambushers

Sockeye Salmon

Silver at sea, scarlet to spawn

Night Adder

Rhombus-marked frog hunter of the night

Bull Trout

Big char, cold water, connected rivers.

Rhino Viper

Horns in the leaf litter.

Urutu Snake

Urutu-cruzeiro: the cross-marked ambusher

Snook Fish

Linesiders of the tides

Mojarra

Silver schools, sand-sipping snouts

Bluegill

Small mouth, big attitude-Bluegill

Redtail Catfish

Big head. Red tail. River titan.

Electric Catfish

Africa's freshwater "shock" catfish

Chinook Salmon

King of the Pacific salmon runs

Black Rat Snake

Barn-climbing rodent patrol