Muddy

Grouper Fish

Big mouth. Bold strike. Reef ruler.

Common European Adder

Zigzag guardian of the heath

Moon Jellyfish

Four horseshoes under a living moon

Jonah Crab

Big claws, Gulf of Maine flavor.

Lizardfish

Hidden on the bottom, built to strike

Polecat

Small predator, big attitude

Macaque

Smart, social, seriously adaptable

Ruddy Turnstone

Flip a stone, cross an ocean.

Spider

Silk, stealth, and eight-legged skill

Great Egret

Big white hunter of the wetlands

Moccasin Snake

White-mouth warning of the wetlands

Weaver Birds

Nature's master basket-weavers

Mud Snake

Wetland phantom with a blazing belly

Arafura File Snake

Baggy-skinned fish-gripper

Egyptian Goose

Africa's bold, loud, territorial grazer

Congo Snake

Not a snake-an eel-shaped salamander

Mangrove Snake

Mangrove shadows, golden rings

Sea Roach

Rock runners of the tide line

Junglefowl

Wild roots of the chicken

Red-Billed Quelea Bird

The "feathered locust" weaverbird

Cobia Fish

The ray-riding runner of warm seas

Halibut

Big, flat, fast: the true halibuts

Alaskan Pollock

The fish behind the fish stick

Lumpfish

The suction-cup guardian of the North