Meet Chano, a Geoffroy’s cat. In the wild, this nocturnal species can be found navigating through the forests of South America. Within its homerange, this carnivorous cat is an ambush hunter, searching for and stalking prey like small mammals, birds, snakes, and amphibians.

The North American river otter is built for life on the water. Thick, protective fur keeps them warm as they navigate chilly waters, short legs and webbed feet make them fast swimmers, and their long, narrow body and flattened head helps to keep their movements streamlined.

Pileated gibbons like this two-year-old are master brachiators, using their long forearms to swing from tree to tree in their forested homes, sometimes bridging gaps as wide as 30 to 50 feet. When on the ground, gibbons walk bipedally like humans.

This amphibian is a Malaysian golden gliding tree frog. It resides in a variety of areas including cities and other built environments. It breeds in stagnant pools and puddles where its hungry tadpoles can devour decayed plants, invertebrates, and sometimes even one another.

A pair of two-month old yellow-faced turtles hang out on their keeper’s hand. When full-grown, this species will be nearly a foot long. In the wild, this medium-sized turtle can be found near bodies of water across much of northern Australia.

Found in lagoons and reef crests, the green clown goby is often spotted navigating its home range alone or in pairs. Peaceful in nature, this species prefers to live a more subdued life, hiding amongst broad-branching coral.

The ‘ā or brown booby is a large seabird that is distributed throughout the tropical regions of both hemispheres. The subspecies you see here is a resident of Hawaii, where it nests in small colonies of tens to hundreds of pairs.

If not for its large nose, one might confuse the Amur leopard cat for a common house cat. Found in parts of south and east Asia, this solitary species spends much of its time resting in trees or hiding on the ground amongst dense, thorny undergrowth.

This beauty is a greater carpet chameleon. In the wild, this species calls southern Madagascar home, where it is found in savannas or large, dry forests. Females like this one often sport a more striking look than their male counterparts who are typically pale green.

The Barbary lion is one of the most recognizable lion subspecies throughout history. These large carnivores were often kept by royal families of north African nations, battled gladiators in the Roman Colosseum, and even took up brief residence at the Tower of London.

Female African elephants give birth to just one calf after a 22-month-long gestation period - the longest of any mammal. Mom and baby are part of a matriarchal society, in which related females and their young form herds that are led by the eldest female.

With its piercing yellow eyes, the face of this Indochinese southern terrapin is not an easy one to forget. But over the last 75 years, several subpopulations of this critically endangered species have gone extinct, and those remaining have experienced major declines.

This species may be known as the common octopus, but it's nothing short of spectacular. A well studied species, researchers have found that this octopus is able to tell how bright an object is, distinguish between different shapes, and recognize patterns.

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Meet Teiku, a two-month old jaguar cub. Jaguars are most similar in appearance to leopards, but there’s nothing you can confuse them in South America. The most distinctive feature of the jaguar is the shape of their spots, which resemble a certain sweet-smelling flower – the rose

I am thrilled to introduce the 15,000th species to join the Photo Ark - the Miami tiger beetle. Swipe and click the link to learn more about this incredible species I photographed at Pine Rocklands.

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Happy Thanksgiving from Barley, the Narragansett turkey! The breed, which is a cross between wild and domesticated turkeys, is named for the Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island where they originated.

The Madagascar giant day gecko’s tail can regenerate after an injury - in this case, it grew back twice. Such tails, which can grow longer than the gecko’s body, aid this tree-dwelling species in balancing as it clings to branches and trunks with sticky, flattened toe pads.