Prairie Rattlesnake
Rattle of the Grasslands
Conservation Threats
Hunting
Legal and illegal hunting, poaching, and direct persecution by humans
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Hunting Animals
Bush Baby
Big eyes. Bigger leaps.
Horned Lizard
Spines, stealth, and ants for dinner.
Red Squirrel
Tufted ears, forest engineer
Flying Lemur
Not a lemur-nature's glide master
Canada Lynx
Taiga's snowshoe hunter
Sulcata Tortoise
Sahel's burrowing giant
Blue Iguana
Grand Cayman's comeback lizard
Elk
Hear the mountains bugle: wapiti
Pronghorn
Pronged horns. Prairie speed.
Giant Armadillo
Big burrows. Bigger impact.
Springbok
Born to bound: the pronking springbok
Ibex
Born to climb the impossible
Box Turtle
The turtle that shuts the door
Fisher
The tree-running porcupine hunter
Ferruginous Hawk
Royal hawk of the wide-open West
Wood Bison
Boreal muscle, northern resilience.
Florida Panther
Florida's last eastern wild cougar
Mudpuppy
Gilled for life, built for the bottom.
Burmese Python
Big, blotched, built to constrict
Indian Giant Squirrel
India's rainbow squirrel of the treetops
Nile Crocodile
The Nile's armored ambush master
Skink Lizard
Smooth scales, global explorers
Harbor Seal
No ears. Big whiskers. Coastal pro.