Eastern Rat Snake
Barn-Patrolling, Tree-Climbing Black Snake
Conservation Threats
Agricultural Expansion
Conversion of natural habitats to farmland and ranching operations
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Agricultural Expansion Animals
Sambar
Asia's heavyweight forest deer
Honey Buzzard
The wasp-nest excavator of Europe
Spider-Tailed Horned Viper
A viper with a spider on its tail.
Leopard Lizard
Spotted sprinters of the desert
Basilisk Lizard
Kings of the riverbank sprint
Carpet Viper
Hear the hiss, heed the saw
Armadillo Lizard
The lizard that becomes a ring of armor
Texas Spiny Lizard
Spiky scales, Texas trails.
Unau (Linnaeus's Two-Toed Sloth)
Two claws, night life, rainforest slow
Natterjack
The stripe-backed toad that runs and roars
Lazarus Lizard
The wall lizard that came back
Copperhead
Hourglass bands, hidden in plain sight
Agama Lizard
Colorful rock sentinels of Africa
Western Hognose Snake
The prairie snake that plays dead best
King Vulture
Color-crowned cleaner of the rainforest
Eastern Indigo Snake
Iridescent hunter of the longleaf
Bearded Vulture
The Bone-Breaking Mountain Vulture
Brown Snake
Australia's swift, serious brown snakes
Texas Indigo Snake
South Texas' diurnal snake hunter
Kirtland's Snake
Red-bellied ghost of wet prairies
Black Mamba
Black mouth. Cool head. Keep distance.
Green Mamba
Mambas: the canopy's quick-strike elapids
Egyptian Cobra (Egyptian Asp)
Hood up: the classic "asp" of history