Badger
Badger Badgers are short-legged omnivores in the family Mustelidae which also includes the otters, polecats, weasels and wolverines. The 11 species of badger are grouped in three subfamilies: Melinae, ...
Galagos
Galagos Galagos, also known as bushbabies, bush babies or nagapies (little night monkeys), are small, nocturnalprimates native to continental Africa, and make up the family Galagidae. They are sometim ...
Gelada Baboon
Gelada Baboon Gelada baboons are found only in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea. A majority of gelada baboon populations live in Gich and Sankaber areas of the Semien Mountains National Park in E ...
St. Bernard (dog)
St. Bernard (dog) The St. Bernard is a breed of very large working dog from the Italian and Swiss Alps, originally bred for rescue. The breed has become famous through tales of alpine rescues, as well ...
Malayan Coral Snake
Malayan Coral Snake The Blue Malayan Coral Snake is a beautiful, but highly venomous, front-fanged elapid. It inhabits primary and secondary forest, in lowland and lower montane areas. In common with ...
Tsetse Fly
Tsetse Fly The tsetse fly is found only in Africa and carries trypanosomes (the disease agents causing human sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomosis). The disease is a serious problem in Sub-Saha ...
Polar Bear
Polar Bear The polar bear is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is a large ...
Hyena
Hyena The hyena is Africa’s most common large carnivore. Over the years hyenas and humans have come into close contact in Africa and, in earlier times, in Asia and in Europe, often leading to mu ...
Cone Snail
Cone Snail Conus is a large genus of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs, with the common names of cone snails, cone shells or cones. This genus is placed in the subfamily C ...