Temperate Forest

Grouse

Masters of the lek and the snow

Collared Peccary

Not a pig-America's javelina

Bandicoot

Digging by night, healing soils by day

Marine Toad

Big toad. Bigger toxins.

Oyster

Reef builders that clean the coast

Darwin's Frog

Dad's vocal sac, nature's nursery

Slow Worm

Blinking lizard, not a snake

Bengal Tiger

Stripes of the subcontinent

Indochinese Tiger

Ghost of the Southeast Asian forests

Siberian Tiger

Taiga's striped heavyweight

South China Tiger

Southern China's tiger-waiting to return

Dormouse

Tiny tree sleepers, big hibernators

Crane

Dance, Trumpet, Migrate

Gar

Armored ambushers of the backwaters

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

Indian Elephant

One trunk-many forests sustained

Sparrow

Small birds, big social networks

Purple Emperor Butterfly

Purple flash in the treetops

Marsh Frog

The laughing giant of the marsh

Dhole

The Whistling Pack Hunter of Asia

Leopard Cat

Asia's adaptable little spotted hunter