Plains

Oak Toad

Big life in a tiny sandy toad

Fierce Snake

Fierce snake: desert taipan legend

Fer-de-lance Snake

Heat-sensing ambush, heavy-hitting venom

Mussurana Snake

The Neotropical snake-eater

House Sparrow (English Sparrow)

The sparrow that followed humanity

Eastern Gray Squirrel

The acorn planter in a gray coat

Kenyan Sand Boa

Buried hunter of Africa's sands

Cantil

Two stripes, one heat-seeking hunter.

Mexican Eagle (Northern crested caracara)

Golden power on open skies

Weaver Birds

Nature's master basket-weavers

Baya

Hanging-nest genius of the monsoon

Chicken Snake

Barn Guardian, Not a Viper

Eastern Brown Snake

Australia's swift rodent-hunting elapid

Cascabel

Hear the rattle. Respect the hunter.

Collett's Snake

Banded black snake of inland Queensland

Mulga Snake

Outback heavyweight with a high-yield bite

Pine Snake

The bluffing burrower of the pines

Red Diamondback Rattlesnake

Red diamonds, silent strike

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake

Hear the rattle-respect the desert.

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

Big diamonds. Bigger warning.

Mud Snake

Wetland phantom with a blazing belly

Aesculapian Snake

The healer's serpent of Europe

Arafura File Snake

Baggy-skinned fish-gripper

Egyptian Goose

Africa's bold, loud, territorial grazer