Crocodile Monitor
New Guinea's whip-tailed tree hunter
Pair Bond Durations
Transient
Brief associations lasting only for copulation with no extended pair bond
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Transient Animals
Common Carp
Tough fish, muddy footprint.
Dragon Eel
Spots, horns, and fangs after dark
Pictus Catfish
Spots, speed, and super-long whiskers
Giant House Spider
Fast runner, funnel-web architect
Dobsonfly
Big jaws, clean streams, short adult lives
Thresher Shark
The shark that hunts with a whip
Common Angelshark
Ray-shaped, shark-built, seabed hunter
Oceanic Whitetip Shark
White-tipped wings of the high seas
Lemon Shark
Twin dorsal fins, coastal king
African Golden Cat
The rainforest's hidden cat of many colors
Megalochelys
A fossil giant with a living legacy
Hainosaurus
Titan hunter of Europe's Cretaceous seas
Eastern Dobsonfly
Big wings. Clean streams. Fierce larvae.
Simbakubwa
Not a lion-Africa's other mega-predator
Pelycosaurs
Permian pioneers of the mammal line
Holy Cross Frog
The desert frog with a cross on its back
Palaeophis
Eocene sea-snakes, written in vertebrae
Dinopithecus
The giant baboon of ancient Africa
Banana Cinnamon Ball Python
Caramel coils, calm soul.
Paleoparadoxia
The North Pacific's ancient "paradox grazer"
Viper Boa
Looks like a viper, hugs like a boa.
Executioner Wasp
Big paper wasp, bigger attitude
Snowflake Eel
Spotted night hunter of the reef cracks