Prairie Dog
Builders of the grassland underground
Conservation Threats
Infrastructure
Roads, dams, power lines, and buildings causing mortality or habitat fragmentation
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Infrastructure Animals
White-tail deer
Flag the tail, vanish into the woods
Painted Turtle
Bright stripes, master basker.
Snow Leopard
Built for cliffs. Made for cold.
Tree Kangaroo
Kangaroos that took to the trees
Tibetan Fox
Square-faced hunter of the high plateau
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.
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
American Toad
The trilling toad of the backyard
Blue Iguana
Grand Cayman's comeback lizard
Star-nosed mole
22 rays. 0.12 seconds. Pure touch.
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