The spotted turtle is a small, semi-aquatic turtle that hails from Canada and the eastern United States. They prefer marshes, flooded forests, wet meadows, bogs, and woodland stream habitats. Unfortunately, these little
The Itatiaia highland frog is a small frog species native only to the Itatiaia Mountains of Brazil. These anurans prefer to dwell in leaves, mulch, and stones in sparse forests, open grasslands, and even in burrows. Sadly, due
The porbeagle shark is a species of mackerel shark (in the same family as great whites and others) that can be found in the frigid and temperate ocean waters of the North Atlantic and in the Southern Hemisphere. With facing
The western gorilla can only be found in forests, tropical jungles, lowland swamps, and secondary forests in western Central Africa. More specifically they dwell in Angola, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Congo, Gabon,
The yellowfin tuna, aka ahi (although that is more related to the bigeye tuna) or albacore (which is a misnaming as albacore are a separate species altogether) are epipelagic (part of the oceanic zone into which enough light
The topi (pronounced toh-pee) hails from Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. They prefer semi-deserts, savannas, and floodplains of sub-Saharan Africa. These critters face the threats of
The boodie, aka burrowing bettong or Lesueur’s rat-kangaroo, hails only from the Australian islands of Barrow, Bernier, and Dorre. They were once prominent throughout Australia. However, these critters are the product of
The Cairo spiny mouse, aka Egyptian spiny mouse, Arabian spiny mouse, or common spiny mouse, hails from northern Africa. More specifically Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Morocco, and Sudan. They prefer dry,
The southern banded snake eagle hails from Somalia to northeastern Kwazulu-Natal, inland along the Save River, on into south eastern Zimbabwe. They prefer evergreen coastal forests, thick inland forests near wetlands, and can
The northern river terrapin, aka tuntung, only remains in India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. They are extinct from their other locales. These aquatic turtles prefer large rivers, tidal areas in estuaries, and mangrove forests.
