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Dec. 2, 2024

Eastern Indigo Snake

Eastern indigo snakes are native to the southeastern United States. They prefer longleaf pine forest habitats, but may also be found in sandhills, dry prairies, edges of ...

Nov. 22, 2024

Cape Genet

Cape genets inhabit savanna, shrub lands, and forests in countries of southern Africa. Considered highly adaptable, genets seem also to thrive in and around human settlements, ...

Nov. 13, 2024

East African Savannah Pouched Rat

East African savannah pouched rats are native to tropical regions of southern Africa, including Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, and Democratic Republic of Congo. This species ...

Dec. 13, 2022

Lappet-faced Vulture

The lappet-faced vulture is native to much of Africa and the Middle East. Over most of its range, it inhabits dry and semi-arid land with only scattered trees, thorn bushes, and ...

July 19, 2022

Southern Three-banded Armadillo

Southern three-banded armadillos are found primarily in dry forests and grasslands of Argentina, Boiva, Brazil, and Paraguay. They can also be found in and around agricultural ...

Nov. 1, 2017

Von der Decken Hornbill

Von der Decken hornbills are found across eastern Africa from central and eastern Tanzania, throughout Kenya, and into southeastern Ethiopia and Somalia. They favor the open bush ...

Nov. 1, 2017

Ostrich

Wild ostriches live in Africa’s savannahs and semi-arid Sahel region. They once populated parts of the Middle East but were hunted to extinction there by the mid 20th century ...

Nov. 1, 2017

Northern Ground Hornbill

Northern ground hornbills live on the African savanna north of the equator and south of the Sahara Desert, from forest edge to steppe. See these birds in the African ...

Oct. 31, 2017

Leopard Tortoise

Leopard tortoises are native to the dry savannahs of central and southern Africa. They belong to the family of “land tortoises” known as Testudinae. Africa supports more ...

Oct. 31, 2017

Eastern Hognose Snake

Babe is an Eastern hognose snake, the name “Hognose” coming from their distinct upturned snouts. Eastern Hognoses can be found across Eastern North America in a massive ...

Oct. 31, 2017

Corn Snake

Corn snakes like Colonel are found with a variety of different natural colorations like red, brown, orange (like Colonel), or gray. They are also known for the black and white ...

Oct. 30, 2017

Harris’s Hawk

Harris’s hawks are found in the southwestern U.S. and further south into Mexico, Central America, and parts of South America. They inhabit open, dry country such as cactus ...

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