Desert Rain Frog
Squeak of the Namib dunes
Conservation Threats
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Contamination from chemicals, plastics, noise, and light affecting wildlife health and behavior
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Longnose Gar
Needle-nosed, armor-scaled survivor
Gray Tree Frog
Hear the trill-spot the gray treefrog
Green Tree Frog
Green, striped, and built to climb
Desert Locust
When rains fall, deserts can swarm.
Wood Frog
The frog that thaws back to life
Honduran White Bat
The bat that sleeps in a leaf tent
Muskox
Underwool-cloaked guardians of the tundra
Cicada
Years belowground, weeks in the spotlight
Locust
Small hoppers, huge impact
Kangaroo Rat
Two-footed seed bankers of the desert
Fruit Bat
Plant the forest-one flight at a time
Black-Footed Ferret
Mask of the prairie-dog towns
Fire Salamander
Bright warning colors. Bitter consequences.
Eastern Bluebird
A splash of sky in open fields
Brown Hyena
Shaggy scavenger of the Kalahari
Barred Owl
Hear the forest's "who-cooks-for-you"
Shoebill Stork
The swamp's silent shoe-billed hunter
Mountain Bluebird
Sky-blue sentinel of the open West
Gray Fox
The canid that climbs like a cat
Naked Mole Rat
One queen. Hundreds of helpers. No air? No problem.
Painted Turtle
Bright stripes, master basker.
Tibetan Fox
Square-faced hunter of the high plateau
Striped Hyena
Nature's night-shift carrion recycler