Crab-Eating Macaque
Long tail, big brains, bold foraging
Animal Habitats
Beach
Sandy or pebbly shores used by nesting sea turtles and shorebirds
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Beach Animals
Hermit Crab
Borrowed shells, bold lives
Earwig
Forceps, night-life, and fierce mothering
Wrasse
Wrasses: the reef's colorful caretakers
Tropicbird
Streamers of the tropical seas
Oyster
Reef builders that clean the coast
Horseshoe Crab
Beach Spawners, Blue-Blooded Guardians
Barracuda
Silver speedsters with a bite
Avocet
Curved bill, clean sweep.
Snail
One class, a thousand ways to snail.
Pond Skater
Skating predators of the surface film
Sparrow
Small birds, big social networks
Aldabra Giant Tortoise
Aldabra's living island giants
Sand Lizard
Green-flanked sprinter of the sands
Humboldt Penguin
Built for the Humboldt Current
Rockhopper Penguin
Small penguin. Big cliff-hopper energy.
Royal Penguin
Macquarie's white-faced crested king
Crested Penguin
Yellow brows, ocean pros.
Yellow-Eyed Penguin
New Zealand's yellow-eyed diver
African Penguin
The braying penguin of the Cape
Galapagos Penguin
The penguin that lives on the equator
Little Penguin
Tiny diver, big coastal survivor
Gentoo Penguin
White-capped speedster of the South
King Penguin
Royal diver of the Southern Ocean