Plains

Grouse

Masters of the lek and the snow

Pink Fairy Armadillo

The pink "sand-swimmer" of Argentina

Collared Peccary

Not a pig-America's javelina

Bandicoot

Digging by night, healing soils by day

Leopard Tortoise

Spotted shell, savanna soul.

Marine Toad

Big toad. Bigger toxins.

Slow Worm

Blinking lizard, not a snake

Avocet

Curved bill, clean sweep.

Fishing Cat

Spotted swimmer of Asia's wetlands

Bengal Tiger

Stripes of the subcontinent

Indochinese Tiger

Ghost of the Southeast Asian forests

Malayan Tiger

Malayan Tiger: last shadow of the forest

Sumatran Tiger

Sumatra's last Sunda-island tiger

Siberian Tiger

Taiga's striped heavyweight

South China Tiger

Southern China's tiger-waiting to return

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

African Wild Dog

Painted packs, perfect teamwork.

Dodo

Mauritius' lost pigeon giant