Temperate Grassland

Avocet

Curved bill, clean sweep.

Siberian Tiger

Taiga's striped heavyweight

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

Sparrow

Small birds, big social networks

Marsh Frog

The laughing giant of the marsh

Woolly Mammoth

Built for the Ice Age grasslands

Markhor

Corkscrew kings of the cliffs

Sand Lizard

Green-flanked sprinter of the sands

Pike Fish

Built to ambush, born to bite.

Raccoon Dog

Masked canid, master of winter torpor

Pool Frog

Small frog, big role in wetlands

Long-Eared Owl

Tufts up, talons down.

Crested Penguin

Yellow brows, ocean pros.

Saber-Toothed Tiger

Big bite, bigger grappling power

Green Bee-Eater

Green flash of the open country

Red Wolf

America's rarest wild wolf

Edible Frog

The hybrid water frog of Europe

Vampire Bat

Small bite, big biology.