Emerald Toucanet
Green jewel of the cloud forest
Conservation Threats
Hunting
Legal and illegal hunting, poaching, and direct persecution by humans
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Hunting Animals
Kagu
Crest up. Wings out. Kagu!
Rhea
South America's sprinting ratites
Egyptian Tortoise
Small shell, big desert survivor
Eastern Box Turtle
Nature's little hinged "lockbox"
Loris
Quiet climbers of the night canopy
Kodiak Bear
Island giants of salmon season
Tiger snake
Southern wetlands' striped heavyweight
Eastern Tiger Snake
Wetland hunter with a tiger's bite
Brown Tree Snake
Night-climber that changed Guam's forests
Tasmanian Tiger Snake
Banded, black, and built for wetlands
Rhesus Macaque
Street-smart primate, social to the core
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
Gooty Sapphire Tarantula
Metallic blue-built for the treetops
Eider
Downy divers of the far north
Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher
A spark of orange in deep shade
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
The woodland sprinter with a long tail
Emperor Goose
White-headed goose of the sea-ice edge
King Eider
Crown of the Arctic pack ice