Nutria
Orange teeth, big impact on wetlands
Conservation Threats
Disease
Pathogens, parasites, and disease outbreaks threatening wildlife populations
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Onager
Iran's lightning-footed onager
Olingo
Neotropical night-fruit acrobats
Oregon Spotted Frog
Warm-shallow wetland specialist of the PNW
Killifish
Small fish, big survival strategies
Kudzu Bug
Small bug, big swarms-beware kudzu's hitchhiker.
Kiang
Tough hooves for the Roof of the World
Vole
Small rodents, big ecosystem impact
Urial
Horns of the high dry hills
Cormorant
Dive deep. Hunt sleek. Dry proud.
Agkistrodon Contortrix
Hourglass bands. Hidden hunter.
Comb Jellyfish
Eight comb rows, endless glow
Kouprey
Kouprey: the vanishing forest ox
Tarantula
Big spiders, quiet ambush masters
Leafcutter Ant
Farmers of the forest floor
Underwing Moth
Beautiful underneath, invisible on bark
Zokor
Engineers of the Asian underworld
Mollusk
One phylum, endless forms
Inchworm
Loop, look like a twig, and live on leaves
Gourami
Gulp air, build nests, rule the shallows
Kissing Gourami
Not a kiss-it's a contest.
Olympic Marmot
Olympic Mountains' whistling burrower
Pacific Coast Tick
Ornate hunter of the Pacific slopes
Cone Snail
Harpoon hunters of the reef