Honduran White Bat
The bat that sleeps in a leaf tent
Conservation Threats
Agricultural Expansion
Conversion of natural habitats to farmland and ranching operations
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Agricultural Expansion Animals
Cicada
Years belowground, weeks in the spotlight
Locust
Small hoppers, huge impact
Kangaroo Rat
Two-footed seed bankers of the desert
Fruit Bat
Plant the forest-one flight at a time
Black-Footed Ferret
Mask of the prairie-dog towns
Fire Salamander
Bright warning colors. Bitter consequences.
Eastern Bluebird
A splash of sky in open fields
Brown Hyena
Shaggy scavenger of the Kalahari
Scarlet Macaw
Scarlet skies, rainforest voice.
Shoebill Stork
The swamp's silent shoe-billed hunter
Mountain Bluebird
Sky-blue sentinel of the open West
Fallow deer
Palmate antlers, spotted summer style
Gray Fox
The canid that climbs like a cat
Naked Mole Rat
One queen. Hundreds of helpers. No air? No problem.
Prairie Dog
Builders of the grassland underground
White-tail deer
Flag the tail, vanish into the woods
Painted Turtle
Bright stripes, master basker.
Tree Kangaroo
Kangaroos that took to the trees
Striped Hyena
Nature's night-shift carrion recycler
Prairie Rattlesnake
Rattle of the Grasslands
Wood Turtle
Sculpted shell, stream-to-forest trekker
Bush Baby
Big eyes. Bigger leaps.
Horned Lizard
Spines, stealth, and ants for dinner.