Muddy

Moorhen

The reed-bed runner on lily pads

Mayfly

Born in water, gone in a day

Fire-Bellied Toad

Flash the belly, live to tell it.

Spiny Dogfish

Two spines. Slow life. Big schools.

Macaroni Penguin

Big colony. Bigger crest.

Crab-Eating Macaque

Long tail, big brains, bold foraging

Hermit Crab

Borrowed shells, bold lives

Burrowing Frog

Dig deep. Emerge with the rain.

Earwig

Forceps, night-life, and fierce mothering

Common Frog

Spring's frogspawn maker

Wrasse

Wrasses: the reef's colorful caretakers

Collared Peccary

Not a pig-America's javelina

Bandicoot

Digging by night, healing soils by day

Marine Toad

Big toad. Bigger toxins.

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.

Fishing Cat

Spotted swimmer of Asia's wetlands

Bengal Tiger

Stripes of the subcontinent

Sumatran Tiger

Sumatra's last Sunda-island tiger

Crane

Dance, Trumpet, Migrate

Gar

Armored ambushers of the backwaters

Snail

One class, a thousand ways to snail.