Valley

Rhesus Macaque

Street-smart primate, social to the core

Curly Hair Tarantula

Curly, calm, and quietly formidable

Zebra Tarantula

Zebra legs, burrow boss

Skeleton Tarantula

The tarantula with "armed" pedipalps

Texas Brown Tarantula

Big, brown, and mostly mellow.

Arizona Blonde Tarantula

Blond legs, desert burrows, calm giant

Brazilian Black Tarantula

The Velvet Black Burrower

Purple Tarantula

Purple velvet of Ecuador's canopy

Chilean Rose Tarantula

Chile's "rose" with a hidden defense

California Tarantula

Velvet-dark ambush hunter of California

Pumpkin Patch Tarantula

Small spider, big pumpkin vibes

Orchard Oriole

Smallest oriole, biggest spring song

Acadian Flycatcher

Hear it: "peet-sah" in the shade

Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher

A spark of orange in deep shade

Eurasian Sparrowhawk

The woodland sprinter with a long tail

Kea

The clever parrot of the snowline

Nightjar

Built for twilight insect-hunting

Roadrunner

The sprinting cuckoo of the desert

Fulvous Whistling Duck

Tawny flocks, whistled calls

European Goldfinch

Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.

Upland Sandpiper

Fencepost singer of the prairie

Epicyon haydeni

Miocene muscle: the bone-crushing canid

Argentavis Magnificens

Miocene sky-giant of Argentina

Dromornis stirtoni

Australia's Miocene mega-bird