Fire Salamander
Bright warning colors. Bitter consequences.
Conservation Threats
Natural System Modification
Altered fire regimes, water management, and ecosystem engineering
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Natural System Modification Animals
Eastern Bluebird
A splash of sky in open fields
Shoebill Stork
The swamp's silent shoe-billed hunter
Mountain Bluebird
Sky-blue sentinel of the open West
Prairie Dog
Builders of the grassland underground
White-tail deer
Flag the tail, vanish into the woods
Painted Turtle
Bright stripes, master basker.
Tibetan Fox
Square-faced hunter of the high plateau
Prairie Rattlesnake
Rattle of the Grasslands
Wood Turtle
Sculpted shell, stream-to-forest trekker
Horned Lizard
Spines, stealth, and ants for dinner.
Flying Lemur
Not a lemur-nature's glide master
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
Ibex
Born to climb the impossible
Box Turtle
The turtle that shuts the door
Horsefly
Fast flyers with a fierce bite
Grasshopper Mouse
A mouse that hunts like a wolf
Sharp-Tailed Snake
Small snake, sharp tail, slug hunter
Ferruginous Hawk
Royal hawk of the wide-open West
Wood Bison
Boreal muscle, northern resilience.