Mediterranean

Wallaby

Pouches, power-hops, and wild places

Earwig

Forceps, night-life, and fierce mothering

Common Frog

Spring's frogspawn maker

Collared Peccary

Not a pig-America's javelina

Bandicoot

Digging by night, healing soils by day

Leopard Tortoise

Spotted shell, savanna soul.

Oyster

Reef builders that clean the coast

Slow Worm

Blinking lizard, not a snake

Avocet

Curved bill, clean sweep.

Dormouse

Tiny tree sleepers, big hibernators

Crane

Dance, Trumpet, Migrate

Snail

One class, a thousand ways to snail.

Pond Skater

Skating predators of the surface film

Glass Lizard

All the lizard-none of the legs.

Common Buzzard

The countryside's master of thermals

Sparrow

Small birds, big social networks

Marsh Frog

The laughing giant of the marsh

Stag Beetle

Antlers of the insect world

Sand Lizard

Green-flanked sprinter of the sands

Long-Eared Owl

Tufts up, talons down.

Humboldt Penguin

Built for the Humboldt Current

African Penguin

The braying penguin of the Cape

Little Penguin

Tiny diver, big coastal survivor

Saber-Toothed Tiger

Big bite, bigger grappling power