Temperate Grassland

Caiman

Freshwater armor, silent power

Tiger Salamander

Vernal-pool tiger, underground traveler

Stick Insect

Nature's living twigs and leaves

Capybara

Built to graze, born to swim

Guinea Fowl

Spotted sentinels of the savanna

Gila Monster

Venom by chew, built for the desert

Tree Frog

Sticky toes, big voices, forest lives

Common Toad

Warty wanderer, springtime pond pilgrim

Gharial

The long-snouted fisher of big rivers

Moorhen

The reed-bed runner on lily pads

Dingo

Australia's wild voice of the outback

Mayfly

Born in water, gone in a day

Fire-Bellied Toad

Flash the belly, live to tell it.

Burrowing Frog

Dig deep. Emerge with the rain.

Turkey

Strut, gobble, and soar-wild-born.

Wallaby

Pouches, power-hops, and wild places

Earwig

Forceps, night-life, and fierce mothering

Common Frog

Spring's frogspawn maker

Grouse

Masters of the lek and the snow

Pink Fairy Armadillo

The pink "sand-swimmer" of Argentina

Collared Peccary

Not a pig-America's javelina

Bandicoot

Digging by night, healing soils by day

Leopard Tortoise

Spotted shell, savanna soul.

Slow Worm

Blinking lizard, not a snake