Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker


Joel is the founder of the Photo Ark, a groundbreaking effort to document species before they disappear—and to get people to care while there’s still time.

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Photo: Captive gray wolf at the International Wolf Center in Ely, MN.

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Photo: An Edwards's fig parrot (Psittaculirostris edwardsii) at Loro Parque Fundacion.

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  • Photo: A painted sideneck turtle, Emydura subglobosa, at the Sedgwick County Zoo.
  • Photo: Marajo amazon, Amazona ochrocephala xantholaema, at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • A venomous tiger keelback snake (Rhabdophis tigrinus) at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas.
  • Photo: A male and female Giant thorny stick insect (Trachyaretaon brueckneri) at the Exmoor Zoo.
  • Photo: A slender-billed parakeet (Enicognathus leptorhynchus) at Fauna Andina, a conservation center near south-central Chile.
  • Photo: A female Jackson's chameleon or Jackson's three-horned chameleon (Trioceros jacksonii) at the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, IL.
  • A picture of a male (right) and female brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater ater) in Fort Hood, Texas.
  • Wild caught giant ameiva (Ameiva ameiva) in Gamboa, Panama.
  • Photo: An endangered male yellow-tailed dwarf gecko (Sphaerodactylus dimorphicus) at Josh’s Frogs in Michigan.
  • Photo: Green frogspawn (Euphyllia divisa) at Butterfly Pavilion.
  • Picture of a Texas white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus texanus) at the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, Texas.
  • Photo: Cooper creek turtle (Emydura macquarii emmotti) at Templestowe College
  • Picture of a male Himalayan monal pheasant (Lophophorus impejanus) at Pheasant Heaven, a private pheasant breeding center near Clinton, NC.
  • Picture of the last known critically endangered Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog (Ecnomiohyla rabborum) at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
  • A picture of a pair of Indian spot-billed ducks (Anas poecilorhyncha poecilorhyncha) at Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. The female is in the front with the male behind.
  • Picture of a vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Southern Africa King cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus) named George at Zoo Miami.
  • A critically-endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered female Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) and her five-month-old cub at the Atlanta Zoo.
  • Picture of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) at the Columbus Zoo.
  • A Jamaican iguana (Cyclura collei) from the Sedgwick County Zoo. This is one of the most critically endangered lizards in the world. Listed as critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered.
  • Male bees (Bombus sp.) swarm around sunflowers at Branched Oak Lake.
  • Black-bellied whistling ducks (Dendrocygna autumnalis autumnalis) at the Brevard Zoo.
  • Photo: An American crocodile (Crocodilus acutus) at the Omaha Zoo.
  • Photo: Biscuit Sea Star (Tosia australis) at Melbourne Zoo.
  • Picture of a yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea) at the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, Texas.
  • Photo: A critically endangered Deserta Grande wolf spider (Hogna ingens) at the Zoological Society of London.
  • A federally endangered female desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) named April at The Living Desert in Palm Desert, California.
  • Seal salamander (Desmognathus monticola) from Zoo Atlanta.
  • A gargoyle gecko (Rhacodactylus auriculatus) at the Omaha Zoo.
  • Photo: Maguari stork (Ciconia maguari) at the National Aviary of Colombia.
  • Photo: Green-thighed parrot (Pionites leucogaster) at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • A male eastern bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) at the Great Plains Zoo.
  • Photo: A great-billed mannikin (Lonchura grandis) at Zoo Plzeň.
  • Photo: A Parastenophis betsileanus from a private collection.
  • Photo: A Mexican jumping pitviper (Metlapilcoatlus nummifer) at Reptile Lagoon in Hamer, South Carolina.
  • Photo: A Danube barbel (Barbus balcanicus) at Alpenzoo Innsbruck in Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Photo: A female greater carpet chameleon (Furcifer major) at Zoopark Zajezd.
  • Photo: A Eurasian common crane (Grus grus) named Corcho at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
  • Photo: Yellow wrasse (Halichoeres chrysus) at Pure Aquariums.
  • Photo: A male Luzon rufous hornbill, Buceros hydrocorax, at the Avilon Zoo. This species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN red list.
  • Photo: A black spot piranha (Pygocentrus cariba) at the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth, Minnesota.
  • A studio portrait of western ground snakes, Sonora semiannulata.
  • Picture of a royal diadem ratsnake (Spalerosophis atriceps) from a private collection.
  • Photo: Giant pacific barnacle (Balanus nubilus) at the Trinity Western University.
  • Photo: A walleye surfperch (Hyperprosopon argenteum) at California Science Center in Los Angeles, California.
  • Streamside rainfrog or Bob's robber frog (Craugastor punctariolus), an endangered species from Central America at Zoo Atlanta.
  • A Florida cooter (Pseudemys floridana) at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City.
  • Photo: A Forrer's leafwing (Memphis forreri) at the Omaha Zoo.
  • Picture of an endangered white fronted capuchin (Cebus versicolor) at the Summit Municipal Park in Gamboa, Panama.
  • Photo: Blue color phase of the red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) at the Insectarium in New Orleans.
  • Photo: A Jameson's firefinch (Lagonostricta rhodopareia jamesoni) at a field museum in Gorongosa National Park.
  • Photo: A silver perch (Leiopotherapon plumbeus) at the University of the Philippines.
  • A bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) an endangered (IUCN) and federally threatened species at the Atlanta Zoo.
  • Photo: A Saker falcon (Falco cherrug cherrug) photographed at the Dubai Falcon Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • Photo: Bulls-eye poison dart frog (Oophaga (Dendrobates) histrionicus) at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
  • A picture of a groundhog (Marmota monax bunkeri).
  • Photo: A northern saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus acadicus) at Raptor Conservation Alliance in Elmwood, Nebraska.
  • Photo: Giant Asian mantis (Hierodula membranacea) at Butterfly Pavilion.
  • Picture of a tenrec (Echinops telfairi) at the Lincoln Children's Zoo in Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Photo: An eastern screech owl, (Megascopes asio), at a raptor recovery center near Lincoln, NE.
  • A picture of mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos) at Wildlife Rescue Team Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Photo: A female reticulated siren (Siren reticulata) at Joe Budd Wildlife Management Area near Quincy, FL.
  • A picture of a female long-horned bee (Xenoglossodes sp.) photographed at a studio in Lincoln, NE
  • Photo: A Rio Santiago poison-dart frog (Dendrobates captivus) at Centro Jambatu in Quito, Ecuador.
  • Photo: Mozambique baboon tarantula (Augacephalus ezendami) at the Bugarium at the Albuquerque BioPark.
  • Photo: An Eastern redbelly turtle (Pseudemys rubriventris) at the Estuarium in Dauphin Island, AL.
  • Picture of an endangered Matschie's tree-kangaroo with her joey (Dendrolagus matschiei) at Zoo Miami.
  • Photo: Rainbow shiners (Notropis chrosomus) in spawning colors, from a private collection in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • Endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered Galapagos tortoise (Chelonoidis vicina) at the Great Plains Zoo.
  • Photo: A cricket at the Sunset Zoo in Manhattan, Kansas.
  • Photo: A buff ermine moth (Spilosoma lutea) at Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge in Slimbridge, England.
  • A red-legged brown dart frog (Silverstoneia flotator). The photo was taken at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
  • Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) at the Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure, Salina, Kansas.
  • Photo: Brown trout (Salmo trutta fario) at the Environmental Education Center of the Ribeiras de Gaia.
  • Photo: A male brown leaf chameleon, Brookesia superciliaris, from a private collection.
  • A picture of a band-winged meadowhawk (Sympetrum occidentale) at Cedar Point Biological Station.
  • Photo: A toco toucan (Ramphastos toco albogularis) at Huachipa Zoo in Lima, Peru.
  • Picture of a tuberculated toad-headed turtle (Mesoclemmys tuberculata) at the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa.
  • Picture of a Sonoran mountain kingsnake (Lampropeltis pyromelana knoblochi) at the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, Texas.
  • Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery.
  • Picture of an adult fringe tree frog (Cruziohyla craspedopus) from the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
  • A channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery.
  • Photo: A pair of four-day-old MacQueen's bustard (Chlamydotis macqueenii) chicks at the National Avian Research Center.
  • Photo: Three female leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius) at the Sunset Zoo in Manhattan, Kansas.
  • Photo: A female chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) at the Dubai Safari Park in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • Photo: An Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea) at the West Liberty University Crayfish Conservation Lab in West Liberty, West Virginia.
  • Picture of an olive python (Liasis olivaceus olivaceus) at Wild Life Sydney Zoo.
  • Photo: An unidentified lobophylia coral (Lobophylia sp.) at the Akron Zoo.
  • A picture of an oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris albirostris) at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati, Assam, India.
  • Gulf coast box turtle, Terrapene triunguis major, at the Sedgwick County Zoo.
  • Bornean eared frog (polypedates otilophus) at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
  • Picture of a critically endangered Malaysian river painted terrapin (Batagur borneoensis) at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.
  • Photo: A Moroccan fat-tailed scorpion (Androctonus mauritanicus) at the Safari Land Pet Store.
  • A picture of a female king quail and her chicks (Synoicus chinensis) at Parrots in Paradise, a bird attraction in Glass House Mountains, Queensland.
  • A picture of a critically endangered giant Asian pond turtle (Heosemys grandis) at Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity (ACCB) in Cambodia.
  • Picture of a hairy sea cucumber (Sclerodactyla briareus) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.
  • Picture of a sunburst diving beetle (Thermonectus marmoratus) at the LA Zoo.
  • Photo: A group of isopods (Venezillo parvus) photographed at Josh’s Frogs in Owosso, Michigan.
  • Photo: An endangered gray gibbon (Hylobates muelleri muelleri) at the Miller Park Zoo.
  • A terciopelo (Bothrops asper) at the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • Photo: A Southern naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous unicinctus squamicaudis) at Parque Zoológico Huachipa in Lima, Peru.
  • Photo: A Chilean tinamou (Nothoprocta perdicaria) at Lundi Farm in Verl, Germany.
  • Photo: A South African giraffe (Giraffa giraffa giraffa) at the Emirates Park Zoo in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
  • Photo: A Chinese cobra (Naja atra) at the Kentucky Reptile Zoo in Slade, Kentucky.
  • Photo: A corsac fox (Vulpes corsac) at Zoopark Zajezd.
  • Photo: A critically endangered redtail shark (Epalzeorhynchos bicolor) at the Singapore Zoo's River Safari area.
  • Photo: Pinecone soldierfish (Myripristis murdjan) at Loro Parque.
  • Photo: A Southern brook lamprey (Ichthyomyzon gagei) from Hatchet Creek on the Coosa River Drainage near Goodwater, Alabama.
  • Photo: Two Arabian gazelles (Gazella arabica) and an Arabian mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella cora) at the Dubai Safari Park in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • Photo: A male, critically endangered Otjikoto tilapia (Tilapia guinasana) from a private collection.
  • Picture of an Andean striped-kneed tarantula (Lasiodorides striatus) at the Wellington Zoo.
  • Photo: A female Northern copper pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmeringii scintillans) at Tierpark Berlin.
  • Fork-tailed drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis) in Gorongosa in Mozambique, Africa.
  • Photo: A knob-scaled lizard (Xenosaurus grandis grandis) and juvenile at the San Antonio Zoo.
  • Photo: Oleander Butterfly (Euploea core) at Melbourne Zoo.
  • Photo: A pair of bold characodon (Characodon audax) from a private collection.
  • Photo: A featherfin cichlid (Cyathopharynx furcifer) at Wroclaw Zoo in Poland.
  • Photo: A male rough shiner (Notropis baileyi) from Choctafaula Creek in the Chattahoochee River Drainage, Tuskegee National Forest, Alabama.
  • Zompro's walkingstick (Parapachymorpha zomproi) at the Exmoor Zoo.
  • Photo: A formosan black bear (Ursus thibetanus formosanus) named Happy at the Endemic Species Research Institute in Taichung City, Taiwan.
  • Photo: A butterfly mussel (Ellipsaria lineolata) at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery.
  • Photo: Rose bellied lizard (Sceloporus variabilis) collected from the wild near Rio Medina, TX, on the Rafter O Ranch.
  • Photo: A short-tailed morpho butterfly (Morpho theseus) at the Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm and Amazon Animal Orphanage.
  • Photo: Blue-backed parrot (Tanygnathus sumatranus duponti) at the Avilon Zoo.
  • Picture of an endangered Matschie's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) at the Lincoln Children's Zoo.
  • A federally endangered West African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) from the private collection of Curt Harbsmeier.
  • Photo: A skimmer dragonfly nymph (Odonata Libellulidae) at the West Liberty University Crayfish Conservation Lab in West Liberty, Virginia.
  • Photo: An Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius fasciatus) at Parque Biologico.
  • A federally endangered Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) at the Toledo Zoo.
  • Photo: A female Taiwan ring necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus formosanus) at the Plzen Zoo.
  • Picture of a yellow stingray (Urobatis jamaicensis) at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.
  • Photo: Virgin River chub (Gila seminuda) at Warm Springs Natural Area, Upper Muddy River, NE Clark County, Nevada.
  • Photo: A Central American red brocket (Mazama temama) at the Phoenix Zoo.
  • Picture of a critically endangered golden-headed or Cat Ba langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus) at the Endangered Primate Rescue Center in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. There are just 55 of these animals left on Earth.
  • Picture of a critically endangered Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) at Zealandia, in Wellington, New Zealand.
  • Photo: Eurasian dotterel (Charadrius morinellus) at Monticello Center in Italy.
  • Photo: White-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis) at Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden, Ahmedabad, India.
  • Photo: A Mexican jumping pitviper (Metlapilcoatlus nummifer) at Reptile Lagoon in Hamer, South Carolina.
  • Photo: A whitetail lancehead (Bothrops leucurus) at the Kentucky Reptile Zoo in Slade, Kentucky.
  • A raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) named Thor at Zoo Atlanta. Engaging and curious but skittish, the raccoon dog was said to be a shape shifter according to ancient Japanese legend.
  • Photo: Blue crowned parakeet (Psittacara acuticaudatus haemorrhous) at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • A javan hump-headed lizard or chameleon forest dragon (Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus) at Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure near Salina, Kansas.
  • Picture of a bronze-winged parrot (Pionus chalcopterus) at the Dallas World Aquarium.
  • Photo: A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) at the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona.
  • Photo: Yellow rosella (Platycercus elegans flaveolus) at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • Photo: A lynx spider (Peucetia lucasi) at the Berlin Zoological Garden in Berlin, Germany.
  • Photo: A red milksnake (Lampropelits triangulum) at the St. Louis Zoo.
  • Photo: A bluntnose jack (Hemicaranx amblyrhynchus) at the Institute of Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS) at Gulfport, MS. This animal is part of their public education area.
  • Photo: A spiny skink (Tribolonotus novaeguineae) at Petra Aqua.
  • A picture of a California towhee (Melozone crissalis senicula) at Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network in California.
  • A sunbittern (Eurypyga helias ) at the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • A picture of a Dominican red mountian boa (Chilabothrus striatus striatus) from a private collection.
  • Photo: A South American barn owl (Tyto alba tuidara) at Fundacao Jardim Zoologico de Brasilia.
  • Photo: A tinted cantharus (Pisania tincata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.
  • Photo: A finger-shaped sea pen (Veretillum cynomorium) at the Vasco da Gama Aquarium in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Photo: A Yamatonuma shrimp (Caridina japonica) at Aquarium Berlin.
  • Photo: Eastern white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) at the Sedgwick County Zoo.
  • A lesser treefrog, Dendropsophus minutus.
  • Picture of two-week-old black-bellied whistling ducklings (Dendrocygna autumnalis) at the Dallas World Aquarium.
  • A Brazilian lancehead (Bothrops moojeni) at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas.
  • A serrated-toed tree lizard (Holaspis guentheri) at the Chattanooga Zoo.
  • A female Mt. Kilimanjaro two-horned chameleon or dwarf Fischer's chameleon (Kinyongia tavetana) from Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo
  • A Norhayati's flying frog (Rhacophorus norhayatii) from a private collection.
  • Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) at the Tennessee Aquarium.
  • Great Basin spadefoot toad (Spea intermontana) at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Photo: An undescribed smoky dace (Clinostomus sp. cf. funduloides) at the Marion Conservation Aquaculture Center.
  • Photo: A mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum) from a private collection.
  • Photo: Romeo, a ten-year-old Sehuencas water frog (Telmatobius yuracare) at Museo d'Orbigny, a natural history museum and rare amphibian breeding center in Chocabamba Bolivia.
  • A sand cockroach (Arenivaga floridensis) at the Archbold Biological Station.
  • A picture of a Sonoran cantil (Agkistrodon bilineatus) at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Photo: A creamy-bellied thrush (Turdus amaurochalinus) at Fundacao Jardim Zoologico de Brasilia.
  • A picture of a South Arabian spiny-tailed lizard (Uromastyx benti) at the Denver Zoo in Colorado.
  • Photo: A tawny owl (Strix aluco) at Reptile Gardens.
  • A picture of a Fischer's turaco (Tauraco fischeri fischeri) at the Dallas World Aquarium in Texas.
  • Photo: Walking stick (Medauroidea extradentata) at the Budapest Zoo.
  • An old world harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) at the Omaha Zoo.
  • A picture of a small five-toed jerboa (Scarturus elater) at the Moscow Zoo.
  • Photo: A Rio Cauca caecilian or rubber eel (Typhlonectes natans) at the Detroit Zoo.
  • A picture of a nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus mexicanus) at the Tulsa Zoo, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  • Photo: A female Usambara three-horned chameleon (Trioceros deremensis) from a private collection.
  • Photo: Humboldt penguins at the Great Plains Zoo. (IUCN: Vulnerable)
  • A giant tailless whip scorpion (Damon variegatus) at the Fort Worth Zoo.
  • Photo: A cape ring-necked dove (Streptopelia capicola) named Joey at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, SC.
  • Photo: A giant monkey frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.
  • Photo: Western Bean Cutworm Moth (Striacosta albicosta) at Cedar Point Biological Station.
  • Photo: Limones splitfin (Ilyodon xantusi) at L'aquarium tropical du palais de la Porte DorŽe.
  • Picture of a near threatened Tibetan white-eared pheasant (Crossoptilon crossoptilon drouyni) at Pheasant Heaven, a private pheasant breeding center near Clinton, NC.
  • Photo: Eurasian (grey) crane (Grus grus) at Parc des Oiseaux in Villars Les Dombes, France.
  • Photo: Cabbage leather coral (Sinularia brassica) at the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
  • Photo: Large rose beetle (Potosia aeruginosa) at the Budapest Zoo.
  • Photo: A Mueller's clawed frog (Xenopus muelleri) at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas.
  • Photo: An endangered brook barbel (Barbus caninus) at Alpenzoo in Innsbruck, Austria.
  • An endangered flat-tailed day gecko (Phelsuma serraticauda) at the Houston Zoo.
  • Photo: A male blue-crowned hanging parrot (Loriculus galgulus) at the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee.
  • Photo: A long-eared hedgehog (Hemiechinus auritus auritus) at Wildlife Hospital of Israel & Ramat Gan Safari Park, in Ramat Gan, Israel.
  • Photo: A Cabrit's murex (Murex cabritii) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab.
  • Photo: An Andean flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus) at the Zoo Berlin.
  • Picture of a blue-margined ground beetle (Pasimachus marginatus) at the Dallas Zoo in Dallas, Texas.
  • Picture of a Great Basin gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer deserticola) at the Toronto Zoo.
  • Picture of an endangered, male black-crowned Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii oerstedii) at the Summit Municipal Park in Gamboa, Panama.
  • A Pope's tree viper (Trimeresurus popeorum) from a private collection.
  • Sanguine poison dart frog, Epipedobates zaparo, at Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, WI.
  • A red legged frog (Rana aurora) at the Oregon Zoo.
  • Photo: A Rufous-cheeked laughingthrush (Garrulax castanotis castanotis) at the Prague Zoo.
  • Photo: Butter Hamlet (Hypoplectrus unicolor) at the Albuquerque BioPark Aquarium.
  • Photo: A Toltec fruit-eating bat (Dermanura tolteca) at Bat Jungle in Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki) at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
  • Monk parakeet or quaker parrot (Myiopsitta monachus) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This and other corvid species are studied to learn how cognition evolved, how animals use cognitive abilities to solve problems in nature and how cognitive abilities can affect the evolutionary process.
  • Sicklefin redhorse fish (Moxostoma sp. "sicklefin redhorse") a rare and undescribed species of redhorse found only in the Blue Ridge section of the Little Tennessee River and Hiwassee River. Photographed at Conservation Fisheries, a breeding center for rare native stream fish.
  • Photo: A male Vietnamese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus vietnamensis) at the Zie-Zoo in Volkel, Netherlands.
  • Photo: A bugula (Bugula neritina) at Pure Aquariums in Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Photo: Bigscale logperch (Percina macrolepida) at the Fish Conservation and Culture Lab near Byron, CA at UC Davis.
  • Scarlet mormon (Papilio rumanzovia) at the San Antonio Zoo.
  • A portrait of a great horned owl (Bubo virginianus subarcticus).
  • Photo: A female carpenter ant (Camponotus sansabeanus) at the Dallas Zoo. This animal was collected from South Padre Island.
  • Photo: An Afro Australian fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) at the Faunia zoo in Madrid, Spain.
  • A picture of a pair of Montezuma's quail (Cyrtonyx montezumae mearnsi) at the San Antonio Zoo. The male has the black and white head.
  • Photo: A female lesser Antillean iguana (Iguana delicatissima) at IguanaLand in Punta Gorda, Florida.
  • A picture of a critically endangered Malaysian giant turtle (Orlitia borneensis) at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio.
  • Photo: Red-masked parakeet (Psittacara erythrogenys) at Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden, Ahmedabad, India.
  • A captive, five-month-old mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. (IUCN: Vulnerable)
  • Photo: A western screech owl (Magascops kennicottii bendirei) at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah.
  • Photo: A Wompoo fruit-dove (Megaloprepia magnifica puella) at Pinola Conservancy.
  • The webbed feet of a gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua papua).
  • Photo: A critically endangered Lake Oku clawed frog (Xenopus longipes) at the London Zoo.
  • A bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) an endangered (IUCN) and federally threatened species at the Atlanta Zoo.
  • Picture of a gulf toadfish (Opsanus beta) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.
  • A marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum) at the St. Louis Zoo.
  • Photo: A male mindanao wrinkled hornbill, Rhabdotorrhinus leucocephalus, at Talarak Foundation.
  • A picture of an apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea cinerea) at Healesville Sanctuary.
  • Photo: Jardine parrot, Poicephalus gulielmi gulielmi, at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • Photo: A rough-footed mud turtle (Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi) at the Conservation Department of the San Antonio Zoo.
  • A northern spring salamander (Gyrinophilus porphyriticus) from a private collection.
  • Photo: A Fort Stewart dwarf siren (Pseudobranchus striatus) at the Amphibian Foundation in Atlanta, GA. This animal was originally from Fort Stewart, GA.
  • Photo: A painted carpet viper (Echis coloratus terraesanctae) at Wildlife Hospital of Israel & Ramat Gan Safari Park, in Ramat Gan, Israel.
  • Photo: A common kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula goini) at Petra Aqua.
  • Broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in St. Augustine, Florida. Listed as federally endangered
  • A picture of a female Tongan scrubfowl (Megapodius pritchardii) at the San Diego Zoo. This is thought to be the last one in captivity in the world. She’s very old, at least 30 years of age, a gift from the King of Tonga to the Zoo many years ago. This species is listed as vulnerable by IUCN.
  • Photo: A Natuna langur (Presbytis natunae) at the Lembang Park and Zoo in Lembang, West Java, Indonesia.
  • Picture of a baby robin, Turdus migratorius, from the home of wildlife rescuer in Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Photo: A male and female juvenile western hooded oriole, (Icterus cucullatus nelsoni) at the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network.
  • Picture of a Pacific spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis) at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
  • Photo: A badge star (Porania pulvillis insignis) at the Maine State Aquarium in West Boothbay, ME.
  • Photo: Blue crowned lorikeet (Vini australis) at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • A picture of an endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered pair of white-winged ducks (Asarcornis scutulata) at Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. The female is on the left and the male on the right.
  • Photo: Orange-crowned euphonia (Euphonia saturata) at the National Aviary of Colombia (Aviario Nacional de Colombia).
  • Photo: A Longjaw minnow (Ericymba amplamala) at the Auburn University Natural History Museum.
  • Photo: Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) at the Moscow Zoo.
  • A Mexican pine snake (Pituophis deppei) at the Chapultepec Zoo, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • A vulnerable double-wattled cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) at the White Oak Conservation Center.
  • A picture of a federally endangered yellow-footed rock wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus xanthopus) at Omaha Zoo's Wildlife Safari Park.
  • Photo: A humpback limia (Limia nigrofasciata) at the Denver Zoo.
  • Photo: A Saharan striped polecat (Ictonyx libycus) at the Plzen Zoo.
  • A White's tree frog (Pelodryas caerulea) at the Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure.
  • Photo: A male eyespot gecko (Gonatodes ocellatus) at Josh’s Frogs in Michigan.
  • Photo: A silver-spotted flabeau (Dione juno ssp.) at the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colorado.
  • Picture of a blue wood shrimp (Atya gabonensis) at Pure Aquariums.
  • Photo: An Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) at the Omaha Zoo, Omaha, Nebraska.
  • A lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery.
  • A reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata) at the Gladys Porter Zoo. This species is listed as vulnerable by IUCN.
  • Photo: Andaman barn owl (Tyto alba deroepstorffi) at Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden, Ahmedabad, India.
  • Photo: A 'green and blue' morph of a granular poison dart frog, Oophaga granulifera, at Natura Eco Park.
  • Photo: A black-tailed marmoset (Mico melanurus) at Hemsley Conservation Centre in Fairseat, England.
  • Photo: A pinned specimen of the California monarch (Danaus plexippus plexippus) This migratory subspecies is listed an Endangered by the IUCN.
  • Photo: Female Baw Baw frog (Philoria frosti) at the Melbourne Zoo. This frog critically-endangered.
  • A picture of a federally endangered pink pigeon (Nesoenas mayeri) at the Sedgwick County Zoo.
  • Picture of a vulnerable Fly River turtle (Carettochelys insculpta) from a private collection.
  • Picture of a ribboned seadragon (Haliichthys taeniophorus) at the Dallas World Aquarium.
  • Picture of an endangered Yellow Asian pond turtle (Mauremys nigricans) at the Denver Aquarium.
  • Photo: A black-banded owl (Ciccaba huhula albomarginata) at Fundacao Jardim Zoologico de Brasilia.
  • Photo: A male olive baboon (Papio anubis) named Quinn at Zoo Boise in Boise, Idaho.
  • Narrow-headed garter snake (Thamnophis rufipunctatus) at the Phoenix Zoo.
  • Photo: A four-horned chameleon (Chamaeleo quadricornis) at the Fort Worth Zoo.
  • Photo: Eastern striped skink (Ctenotus robustus) at Lilydale High School in Australia.
  • Picture of a zebra dove (Geopelia striata) from a private collection in the Dominican Republic.
  • Photo: A male greenfin darter (Nothonotus chlorobranchius) from the South Fork of the Holston River, Virginia.
  • Photo: A black boring sea urchin (Echinometra lucunter) at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden
  • Photo: Guatemalan amazon, also called Costa Rican mealy Amazon, Amazona guatemalae virenticeps, at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • Photo: A Moroccan black cobra (Naja haje legionis) at the Dallas Zoo.
  • Photo: Black hawk-eagle or tyrant hawk-eagle (Spizaetus tyrannus) at Parque Jaime Duque near Bogota, Colombia.
  • A picture of a sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii gratus) at the Madrid Zoo
  • Photo: A black Asian upside down catfish (Mystus leucophasis) at the Institute of Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS) at Gulfport, MS. This animal is part of their public education area.
  • Photo: An endangered Fiji banded iguana (Brachylophus bulabula) at the San Diego Zoo.
  • A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered Santa Catalina Island fox (Urocyon littoralis catalinae) named Tachi. Tachi is a hand raised, educational animal, and is the last captive from a breeding program designed to save the species.
  • A spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera spinifera) at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Photo: Mountain patch-nosed snake (Salvadora grahamiae grahamiae) at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Photo: Stag beetle (Rheatulus didieri) at Malacca Butterfly and Reptile Sanctuary.
  • Photo: Striped legless lizard (Delma impar) at Moonlit Sanctuary
  • A hand raised, golden-breasted starling (Lamprotornis regius) named Buddy at Zoo Atlanta.
  • Photo: A blue sucker (Cycleptus elongatus) from the Duck River in Tennessee.
  • Photo: A yellow-footed green-pigeon (Treron phoenicopterus chlorigaster) at The Green Planet in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • Photo: A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus) at the Downtown Aquarium in Denver, Colorado.
  • Photo: A marsh ramshorn (Planorbella trivolvis) photographed at the North Platte Fish Hatchery, owned/operated by Nebraska Game and Parks.
  • Photo: Chestnut naped imperial pigeon (Ducula aenea paulina) at the Exmoor Zoo.
  • Photo: A horned grebe (Podiceps auritus cornutus) at the International Bird Rescue Center in San Pedro, CA. This species is listed as vulnerable by IUCN.
  • Picture of a king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) from the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas
  • Critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) at the St. Louis Zoo's Monsanto Insectarium.
  • Photo: Yellow-headed water monitor (Varanus cumingi) at Wroclaw Zoo.
  • A picture of a red serow (Capricornis rubidus) at the Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden in India. This species is listed as vulnerable by IUCN.
  • Male bees (Bombus sp.) swarm around sunflowers at Branched Oak Lake.
  • Photo: A pair of four-week-old old Asian leopard cats, (Prionailurus bengalensis bengalensis). These two were found abandoned by their mother a couple days ago in a burning field and brought to the Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity (ACCB), a wildlife rehab center in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
  • Photo: A Moore’s variabilichromis (Variabilichromis moorii) at Wroclaw Zoo in Poland.
  • Photo: A superb bird of paradise (Lophorina superba) displays iridescent chest feathers at the Houston Zoo.
  • A picture of an endangered lappet-faced or Nubian vulture (Torgos tracheliotos tracheliotos) at Zoo Atlanta.
  • Photo: A juvenile Mentanani scops owl (Otus mantananensis romblonis) on Semirara Island in the Philippines.
  • Photo: A critically endangered Javan green magpie (Cissa thalassina) in a blue color phase at Taman Safari.
  • Picture of a superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) at Healesville Sanctuary.
  • A southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus) at the Lincoln Children's Zoo, Lincoln, Nebraska. (IUCN: Near Threatened)
  • A thick-tailed scorpion species (Tityus sp.) at the Museo d’Orbigny Natural History Museum in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
  • A picture of a black rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus) at the Tulsa Zoo in Oklahoma.
  • Photo: A bicolored hawk (Accipiter bicolor bicolor) at Huachipa Zoo in Lima, Peru.
  • Photo: Joel Sartore speaks during a presentation about the Photo Ark at the Xposure 2022 International Photography Festival in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
  • Picture of an endangered rowi kiwi or okarito kiwi (Apteryx rowi) at the West Coast Wildlife Centre in Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand.
  • An endangered Mexican alligator lizard (Abronia graminea) at the St. Louis Zoo.
  • Portrait of a male northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus).
  • Two cape sparrows (Passer melanurus) at Safari Park Dvur Kralove. The male has black chest and face.
  • Picture of a Mexican spotted wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys rubida rubida) at the Turtle Conservancy.
  • Photo: A Saint Thomas conure, Eupsittula pertinax chrysophrys, at the Talarak Foundation.
  • Photo: A red billed parrot (Pionus sordidus) at Zoologico de Quito.
  • Liguus tree snail (Liguus fasciatus) at Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Key Largo, Florida.
  • Photo: A Spanish ibex (Capra pyrenaica) at the Madrid Zoo.
  • Picture of an emperor goose, Anser canagicus, at Sylvan Heights Bird Park.
  • Photo: A female coppercheeck darter (Nothonotus aquali) from the Buffalo River at the mouth of Grinder’s Creek, Lewis County, Tennessee.
  • Photo: The blinking snail (Quantula striata) at the Singapore Zoo.
  • Photo: A least chipmunk (Neotamias minimus arizonensis) at Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park in Litchfield Park, Arizona.
  • A picture of a Garrido's crested anole (Anolis barbatus) at the St. Louis Zoo.
  • A federally endangered Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) at the Toledo Zoological Gardens.
  • Photo: A southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans) at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.
  • A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered anegada ground iguana (Cyclura pinguis) at the Fort Worth Zoo.
  • Photo: A mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum) from a private collection.
  • Photo: Albino Prairie kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster) at the Singapore Zoo.
  • Photo: A juvenile black hornbill (Anthracoceros malayanus) at the Jurong Bird Park.
  • A picture of a female Peruvian vicuña (Vicugna vicugna mensalis) at Huachipa Zoo in Lima, Peru.
  • Picture of a vulnerable Hispaniolan or Haitian slider turtle (Trachemys decorata) at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo.
  • A blotched or banded tiger salamander (Ambystoma mavortium melanostictum) at the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium, Dubuque, Iowa.
  • Photo: A male moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax) at the Prague Zoo.
  • Photo: A common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus) at Petra Aqua.
  • Meadow fritillary (Boloria bellona) from Cross Lake, Minnesota.
  • Photo: Jewelled nawab (Polyura delphis) at Malacca Butterfly and Reptile Sanctuary.
  • Photo: A Carolina heelsplitter mussel (Lasmigona decorata) at the Marion Conservation Aquaculture Center.
  • Photo: A harlequin flower beetle (Gymnetis thula) at the Houston Zoo.
  • An endangered baby Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) named Aurora, with her adoptive mother, Cheyenne, a Bornean/Sumatran cross (Pongo pygmaeus x abelii) at the Houston Zoo.
  • Photo: An Asian leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis bengalensis) at the Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity (ACCB) in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
  • Picture of a band-tailed guan (Penelope argyrotis) at the National Aviary breeding center.
  • Vulnerable (IUCN) Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) at the Sunriver Nature Center in Deschutes County, OR.
  • Photo: Malayan giant stick insect (Pharnacia cantori) at Zoo Negara.
  • Photo: A unidentified snipe fly larvae (Rahagionidae sp.) at the West Liberty University Crayfish Conservation Lab in West Liberty, Virginia.
  • Picture of a male surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.
  • Picture of a female silver-beaked tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) at the Tulsa Zoo.
  • Photo: Blossom headed parakeet, Psittacula roseata juneae, at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • Picture of a northern latchtail or Northern water dragon (Lophognathus temporalis) at the Wild Life Sydney Zoo.
  • Photo: Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra curvirostra) at Alpenzoo in Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Photo: Prairie kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster calligaster) collected in Pawnee County, Nebraska.
  • Waandersii's hard-lipped barb (Osteochilus waandersii) at Zoo Negara.
  • Photo: A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center near Wellington, CO. This is a female named Elizabeth Ann, and she’s the world’s first cloned black-footed ferret, created from the genetics of an animal named Willa that died in 1987.
  • Photo: A common bay owl, Phodilus badius badius, at Penang Bird Park.
  • Picture of a New Zealand mantis (Orthodera novaezealandiae) at the Auckland Zoo.
  • Picture of a golden spiny-tailed gecko (Strophurus taenicauda) at the LA Zoo.
  • Picture of a common tree snake (Dendrelaphis punctulatus) at the Healesville Sanctuary.
  • Photo: European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) from the Budapest Zoo.
  • Photo: Yellow-bibbed lory (Lorius chlorocercus) in Choussy, France.
  • A southern walleye (Sander vitreus vitreus) at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery.
  • Photo: A tiger snake (Notechis scutatus) at Reptile Gardens.
  • Photo: Guinean puffer (Sphoeroides marmoratus) at Loro Parque.
  • A Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) at the World Bird Sanctuary.
  • Picture of a male red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) named 'Nigel' at St. Francis Wildlife Association, a wildlife rescue center near Quincy, Florida.
  • A picture of a federally endangered yellow-footed rock wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus xanthopus) at Omaha Zoo's Wildlife Safari Park.
  • Photo: California moray (Gymnothorax mordax) at East Bay Regional Park District.
  • Photo: A chocolate soldier butterfly (Junonia iphita) at Zoo Negara in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Photo: An eared dove (Zenaida auriculata) at Jurong Bird Park, of Wildlife Reserves Singapore.
  • Picture of a red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata) at the Kansas City Zoo.
  • Photo: Palawan binturong (Arctictis binturong whitei) eating a banana at the Nashville Zoo.
  • Picture of a western tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalophus cephalophus) at the Oklahoma City Zoo.
  • Photo: Emperor goose (Anser canagicus) at Monticello Center in Italy.
  • A big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus fuscus) at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab.
  • A picture of a pair of North American ruddy ducks (Oxyura jamaicensis jamaicensis) at Sylvan Heights Bird Park.
  • Picture of a barbfish (Scorpaena brasiliensis) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.
  • Photo: A purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio viridis) at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center - Wildlife Alliance.
  • Photo: Chattering lory (Lorius garrulus morotaianus) at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • Picture of a black-fingered mud crab (Panopeus herbstii) crawls across a slate pencil urchin (Eucidaris tribuloides) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.
  • An eyelash viper (Bothriechis schlegelii) at Reptile Gardens.
  • Photo: A fledgling European barn owl (Tyto alba guttata) from the Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic.
  • Picture of a critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) at the Gharial and Turtle Rehabilitation Center in Lucknow, India.
  • A volcano rabbit (Romerolagus diazi) at Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City. (IUCN: Endangered)
  • Photo: Black-cheeked white-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius ascanius) at Lisbon Zoo
  • Photo: Koch's barking gecko (Ptenopus kochi) from a private collection.
  • Picture of a Baird's patchnose snake (Salvadora bairdi) at the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, Texas.
  • Photo: Threadfin shad (Dorosoma petenense) at the Fish Conservation and Culture Lab in Byron, CA at UC Davis.
  • Photo: A female opossum pipefish (Microphis brachyurus lineatus) at the St. Lucie County Aquarium.
  • Photo: Sri Lankan pit viper, Trimeresurus trigonocephalus, at the Oklahoma City Zoo.
  • Photo: Red-spot diadem (Hypolimnas usambara) at the McGuire Center of the Florida Museum of Natural History.
  • Photo: Saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) at the Alaska SeaLife Center.
  • Photo: Capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus) at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati, Assam, India.
  • An eastern screech owl (Megascops (Otus) asio).
  • Photo: Long nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia wislizenii) at Malacca Butterfly and Reptile Sanctuary.
  • Photo: A male Scottish red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) at Grouse Park Waterfowl in Cascade, Idaho.
  • A coyote (Canis latrans) at the Great Plains Zoo.
  • Photo: A peacock-tail anemone shrimp (Ancylocaris brevicarpalis) at The National Aquarium in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
  • A picture of a group of blesboks (Damaliscus phillipsi) at Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic.
  • A Cuban Amazon parrot (Amazona leucocephala leucocephala) at the Houston Zoo. This species is listed as near threatened on the IUCN Red List.
  • Photo: Pale milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum multistriata) collected in the Nebraska Sandhills--Thomas County.
  • Picture of a Dumeril's monitor (Varanus dumerilii) at the Lincoln Children's Zoo, Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Photo: A citico darter (Etheostoma sitikuense) at Conservation Fisheries in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • Picture of a mountain pitviper (Ovophis monticola monticola) at the Saint Louis Zoo.
  • A female jungle nymph walking stick (Heteropteryx dilatata) in a defensive posture, at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.
  • Bornean eared frog (polypedates otilophus) at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
  • Photo: A swallowtail shiner (Notropis procne) at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, North Carolina.
  • Photo: A Paraguayan rainbow boa (Epicrates crassus) at Wroclaw Zoo in Poland.
  • A female greater green leafbird (Chloropsis sonnerati) at the Sedgwick County Zoo.
  • A pair of giant thorny stick insects (Trachyaretaon carmelae) at the Budapest Zoo.
  • Photo: Cyclone Larry stick insect (Sipyloidea larryi) at Lilydale High School in Australia.
  • Photo: The ethereal sponge (Dysidea etheria) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.
  • Photo: A pair of Taita Falcons (Falco fasciinucha) photographed at the Peregrine Fund in Idaho.
  • Photo: A green keel-bellied lizard (Gastropholis prasina) at Aquarium Berlin.
  • Picture of a Vogel's pit viper (Viridovipera vogeli) at the Houston Zoo.
  • Photo: A fouling anemone (Aiptasiomorpha texaensis) at Gulf Specimen in Panacea, Florida.
  • Photo: A rock squirrel (Otospermophilus variegatus grammurus) at the Wildlife Center of New Mexico.
  • A migrant loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus migrans) at the Toronto Zoo.
  • Photo: A black sea bass (Centropristis striata) at the Maine State Aquarium in West Boothbay, ME.
  • Coturnix quail (Coturnix coturnix japonicus) at the Sutton Avian Research Center.
  • Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica) at the Omaha Zoo.
  • A picture of a Parson's chameleon (Calumma parsonii parsonii) at the Houston Zoo.
  • Photo: Yellow flying stick (Necroscia annulipes) at the Budapest Zoo.
  • Photo: A grapevine looper (Eulithis sp.) from the wild near Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Photo: A bay pipefish, Syngnathus leptorhynchus, at the Alaska SeaLife Center
  • Photo: Amur ratsnake (Elaphe anomala) at Wroclaw Zoo.
  • A picture of a brahminy starling (Sturnia pagodarum) at Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic.
  • Photo: A female double-eyed fig-parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma) photographed at Loro Parque Fundacion, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife.
  • Photo: Javan small-toothed palm civet (Arctogalidia trivirgata trilineata) at the Prigen Conservation Breeding Ark in Indonesia.
  • Photo: A little forest bat (Vespadelus vulturnus) from a private collection.
  • A vulnerable (IUCN) Madagascar painted frog (Mantella madagascariensis) from a private collection.
  • Photo: Oleander Butterfly (Euploea core) at Melbourne Zoo.
  • Photo: A male eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) photographed in Bellevue, Nebraska.
  • Photo: A fat-tailed scorpion (Hottentotta pellucidus) at Verve Biotech in Waverly, Nebraska.
  • Photo: A male South Florida molesnake (Lampropeltis calligaster rhombomaculata) at Zoo Atlanta.
  • Photo: Red-naped ibis (Pseudibis papillosa) at the Ahmedabad Zoo.
  • Photo: A black sea cucumber (Holothuria leucospilota) from the Gulf of Oman.
  • Photo: A female grey junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii) at the Budapest Zoo.
  • Photo: African flower chafer (Mecynorhina polyphemus) at the Insectarium in New Orleans.
  • Picture of a variegated sea urchin (Lytechinus variegatus) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.
  • Picture of a superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) at Healesville Sanctuary.
  • Photo: Goliath pink-toe tarantula (Avicularia braunshauseni) at the Woodland Park Zoo.
  • A black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery and Aquarium.
  • Photo: A strawberry poison frog (Oophaga pumilio) at Josh’s Frogs in Owosso, Michigan.
  • Photo: Cownose ray, Rhinoptera bonasus, at Phoenix Zoo. This is a 4 month old ray pup named Faith Hill.
  • Photo: An American marten (Martes americana) named ‘Joey’ at the Indianapolis Zoo.
  • A redfish (Sciaenops ocellatus) from the wild in Louisiana.
  • A picture of a school of sawfin shiners (Notropis sp. cf. spectrunculus) at Conservation Fisheries in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • A Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) at the San Antonio Zoo. (IUCN: Near Threatened)
  • Photo: A blue-tailed monitor (Varanus doreanus) in Jakarta, Indonesia in the care of PT. Alam Nusantara Jayatama.
  • Photo: An American crocodile (Crocodilus acutus) at the Omaha Zoo.
  • Picture of a variegated sea urchin (Lytechinus variegatus) at the Columbus Zoo.
  • Single tooth simnia (Simnia uniplicata) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab.
  • Photo: A two-spot astyanax (Astyanax bimaculatus) from a private collection.
  • Picture of a vulnerable (IUCN) and federally threatened Florida scrub jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens).
  • Photo: Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) from Parc des Oiseaux in Villars Les Dombes, France.
  • Photo: A slender-tailed meerkat (Suricata suricatta) at the Miller Park Zoo. She is very curious and inquisitive and will chase crickets all over the exhibit to catch and eat.
  • Giant palm salamander (Bolitoglossa dofleini) at the Fort Worth Zoo.
  • A nymphal red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum) found at Spring Creek Prairie.
  • Starry Night Cracker or Starry Cracker (Hamadryas laodamia) at the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.
  • Picture of a fiery searcher beetle (Calosoma scrutator) at the Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans.
  • Photo: A racket-tailed treepie (Crypsirina temia) at Walsrode Bird Park in Walsrode, Germany.
  • A male Mt. Kilimanjaro two-horned chameleon or dwarf Fischer's chameleon (Kinyongia tavetana) from the Omaha Zoo.
  • A federally threatened Northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) named Opal.
  • Photo: A mangrove killifish (Kryptolebias marmoratus) from a private collection in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • Photo: A banded rock lizard (Petrosaurus mearnsi) at the Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic.f
  • Photo: Iberian spadefoot toad (Pelobates cultripes) at the Environmental Education Center of the Ribeiras de Gaia.
  • Photo: Albino Prairie King Snake (Lampropeltis calligaster) at the Singapore Zoo.
  • Photo: A brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater artemisiae) at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah.
  • Photo: Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery.
  • Photo: Orange breasted bunting, Passerina leclancherii, in Choussy, France.
  • Endangered Anderson's newt (Echinotriton andersoni) at the Detroit Zoo.
  • Coyote puppies (Canis latrans).
  • Photo: An Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis frigoris) at Zoo Plzeň.
  • A volcano rabbit (Romerolagus diazi) at Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City. (IUCN: Endangered)
  • Photo: Crested sculpin (Blepsias bilobus) at the Alaska SeaLife Center.
  • Photo: A lilliput (Toxolasma parvum) at the Center for Aquatic Mollusk Programs in Lake City, Minnesota.
  • Photo: A black paradisefish (Macropodus spechti) at the Berlin Zoological Garden in Berlin, Germany.
  • An Asian green broadbill (Calyptomena viridis caudacuta) in Choussy, France.
  • Photo: A moccasin crayfish (Cambarus longirostris) at the West Liberty University Crayfish Conservation Lab in West Liberty, West Virginia.
  • Photo: A mahogany dun (Isonychia bicolor) at the West Liberty University Crayfish Conservation Lab in West Liberty, West Virginia.
  • Photo: An olive sunbird (Nectarinia olivacea) from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.
  • Photo: A painted Madagascar gecko, Paroedura picta, from a private collection.
  • Photo: An eastern screech owl, (Megascopes asio), at a raptor recovery center near Lincoln, NE.
  • A picture of a male Tennessee warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) from a bird banding study near Hudson, Wisconsin.
  • Photo: Two endangered golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
  • Photo: A group of Indian eyed turtles (Morenia petersi) at Turtle Island
  • Photo: A northern alligator lizard (Elgaria coerulea shastensis) from a private collection in Billerbeck, Germany.
  • Boelen's python (Morelia boeleni) at the Riverbanks Zoo.
  • Photo: Hooded crow (Corvus cornix) from the Budapest Zoo.
  • Picture of a lake duck (Oxyura vittata) at Sylvan Heights Bird Park.
  • A little golden-mantled flying fox (Pteropus pumilus) at the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo, in Omaha, Nebraska.
  • Photo: Hitch (Lavinia exilicauda) at East Bay Regional Park District.
  • Photo: A male bronze darter (Percina palmaris) at the Fish Biodiversity Lab, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.
  • Photo: A male common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) from the wild near Thuringia, Germany.
  • Photo: Colt coral (Cladiella sp.) at Butterfly Pavilion.
  • Goldstripe darter (Etheostoma parvipinne) at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center in Knoxville. This fish is not listed. Little is known about it.
  • Photo: A Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) at the Lincoln Children's Zoo in Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Photo: Common poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) at Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.
  • A luna moth (Actias luna) at the Lincoln Children's Zoo.
  • Photo: An Eastern slender glass lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus) at the Auburn University Natural History Museum.
  • Photo: Longhorn beetle (Plinthocoelium sauveolens) at the Insectarium in New Orleans.
  • Photo: A big mouth sleeper (Gobiomorus dormitor) from the St. Lucie River in Florida.
  • Photo: A southern Appalachian salamander (Plethodon teyahalee) from a private collection.
  • An endangered (IUCN) and federally threatened peaks of otter salamander (Plethodon hubrichti) from a private collection.
  • A cave salamander (Eurycea lucifuga) at the Tulsa Zoo, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  • Photo: A Derby's flower beetle (Dicronorhina derbyana conradsi) at Aquarium Berlin.
  • Photo: A juvenile smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) collected on the Little River near Maryville Tennessee.
  • Photo: An Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab.
  • Picture of a white lipped tree frog, Litoria infrafrenata, at the Wild Life Sydney Zoo.
  • Photo: A mated pair of austral parakeets (Enicognathus ferrugineus minor) at Fauna Andina, a conservation center near south-central Chile.
  • Photo: A Grand Comoro day gecko (Phelsuma v nigra comoraegrandensis) at the Plzen Zoo.
  • Photo: Olive darter (Percina squamata) at Conservation Fisheries.
  • Picture of a critically endangered and federally endangered, female South China tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis, at the Suzhou Zoo in China
  • A buffalo darter (Etheostoma bison) at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center in Knoxville. This fish is common in its restricted range of the Upper and Buffalo Rivers in TN.
  • An endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered Cuvier's gazelle (Gazella cuvieri) named Francois at The Living Desert in Palm Desert, California.
  • Picture of a Perdido Key beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus trissyllepsis) a federally-endangered rodent, at the Univ. of South Carolina.
  • A channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery.
  • A green-winged dove (Chalcophaps indica indica) from the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas.
  • Photo: A male Sulawesi hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus sanfordi) at Walsrode Bird Park in Walsrode, Germany.
  • Photo: Greater dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus major) at the Parc Botanique Et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza.
  • Photo: Spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca ibera) at Wroclaw Zoo.
  • Photo: A male endangered proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) at Taman Safari Prigen in Prigen, Indonesia.
  • Photo: A pigeon, Columbidae sp., at the home of bird rescuer in Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Photo: Rosebud coral (Phyllangia americana) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab.
  • Photo: A juvenile, female, Harris's hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus unicinctus) at Zoologico de Quito.
  • A striped possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata) at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.
  • Photo: A male common blackbird (Turdus merula syriacus) at Wildlife Hospital of Israel & Ramat Gan Safari Park, in Ramat Gan, Israel.
  • Picture of a barking owl (Ninox connivens connivens) at the Healesville Sanctuary.
  • Photo: A male Siberian ibex (Capra sibirica) at Wroclaw Zoo in Poland.
  • Picture of a red-tailed boa (Boa constrictor) at Safari Land Pet Center.
  • Picture of a rufous rat-kangaroo named Shorty (Aepyprymnus rufescens) at the Wild Life Sydney Zoo.
  • Photo: A dusky blue flycatcher (Muscicapa comitata aximensis) at the Plzen Zoo.
  • Peru marsupial frog (Gastrotheca peruana) at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
  • A picture of a little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) at the National Aviary of Colombia.
  • A carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis) from Cape Canaveral Florida.
  • Photo: A male tailless whipscorpion (Phrynus pseudoparvulus) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  • Photo: A black-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis arenarius) at Tierpark Berlin in Germany.
  • Photo: A M3 clade fat-tailed scorpion (Androctonus sp.) at Verve Biotech in Waverly, Nebraska.
  • Photo: A Mantella metisy at Tsimbazaza Zoo.
  • Photo: A Morocco spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca marokkensis) at Aeres MBO Barneveld in Barneveld, Netherlands.
  • Canary island lizard (Gallotia galloti eisentrauti) at Wroclaw Zoo.
  • Photo: Red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus minnesota) at Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Photo: Sanibel Island marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris paludicola) from Sanibel Island.
  • A picture of a white-backed duck (Thalassornis leuconotus leuconotus) at Sylvan Heights Bird Park.
  • Photo: A Palestine mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi) at Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research.
  • Photo: An Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis arvensis) at Zoo Plzeň in the Czech Republic.
  • Photo: A barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) at Parco Natura Viva in Bussolengo, Italy.
  • Photo: A Roanoke hogsucker (Hypentelium roanokense) from the Blackwater River, Virginia.
  • Photo: A Anzamala Madagascar swift (Oplurus fierinensis) at the Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic.
  • Photo: A Southern band-tailed pigeon (Patagioenas (fasciata) albilinea) at the Nashville Zoo in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Photo: A sunburst peacock cichlid (Aulonocara nyassae), at the Medicine Park Aquarium and Natural Sciences Center in Medicine Park, OK.
  • An Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard (Uromastyx aegyptia) at Reptile Gardens.
  • Photo: A javan wood-owl (Strix leptogrammica bartelsi) at the Dubai Safari Park in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • A spotted wood owl (Strix seloputo seloputo) at the Jurong Bird Park.
  • A beautiful pit viper (Trimeresurus venustus) at the Woodland Park Zoo.
  • Photo: A Texas spiny lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus) at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab.
  • Photo: A male white-crowned manakin (Pseudopipra pipra) at Walsrode Bird Park in Walsrode, Germany.
  • Photo: An eastern steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis nipalensis) at the Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden.
  • Photo: A brown-belted bumblebee (Bombus griseocolis) photographed at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center near Denton, NE. This bee was originally collected from Bobcat Prairie near Denton, NE.
  • A yellow-collared macaw (Primolius auricollis) at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.
  • Photo: A big mouth sleeper (Gobiomorus dormitor) from the St. Lucie River in Florida.
  • Photo: An olive ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys olivacea, at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center.
  • Picture of a banded huntsman spider (Holconia immanis) at the Taronga Zoo.
  • Photo: A Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii) at Hessilhead Wildlife Rescue.
  • Picture of Nyala (Tragelaphus angasii) named Niles (male), Ginger, Ivy, and Nutmeg at the Houston Zoo.
  • A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) at Zoo Atlanta. This endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered species is native to China.
  • Argentinian waxy frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii) at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas.
  • Crowned iguana (Laemanctus serratus) from the Omaha Zoo.
  • Photo: A Savi's pipistrelle (Hypsugo savii savii) at Centro Fauna Selvatica "Il Pettirosso".
  • A chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina arizonae) at the Brown Ranch, Texas.
  • Photo: Chocolate chip star (Protoreaster nodosus) at the Moscow Zoo.
  • A federally threatened New Mexico ridge-nosed rattlesnake, Crotalus willardi obscurus, at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Photo: Fire eel (Mastacembelus erythrotaenia) at Zoo Negara.
  • Picture of an Eastern water dragon (Physignathus lesueurii lesueurii) at the Wild Life Sydney Zoo.
  • Picture of an endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus fasciatus) at Healesville Sanctuary.
  • A picture of a Northern Mexican Alligator lizard (Barisia ciliaris) at the San Antonio Zoo.
  • A picture of an endangered male black lemur (Eulemur macaco) at St. Louis Zoo in Missouri.
  • Photo: A male wolf spider (Schizocosa communis) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  • Photo: A male striped day gecko (Phelsuma dorsivittata) at Drayton Manor Park in England.
  • Picture of a Marigold lorikeet (Trichoglossus capistratus) named Linguini at the Dallas Zoo.
  • A picture of a mitred parakeet (Psittacara mitratus mitratus) at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • Photo: An Oriental darter (Anhinga melanogaster) at the Bali Bird Park in Indonesia.
  • Picture of a Texas coral snake (Micrurus tener tener) with a color and pattern mutation at the Houston Zoo.
  • Photo: A giant scops owl (Otus gurneyi) at the Avilon Zoo. This species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN red list and as federally endangered.
  • Photo: A great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) egg from a collection at the University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Photo: Black-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) at Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary.
  • Photo: An Edwards's fig parrot (Psittaculirostris edwardsii) at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • A red shiner (Cyprinella lutrensis) at the Nebraska Game & Parks Commission, Nebraska.
  • Photo: A female Western fox squirrel (Sciurus niger rufiventer) at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Longmont, Colorado.
  • A picture of a black throated laughingthrush (Pterorhinus chinensis chinensis) at the Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic.
  • Photo: A female Sumba hornbill (Rhyticeros everetti) at Batu Secret Zoo and Eco Green Park in Batu, Indonesia.
  • A desert rosy boa (Lichanura trivirgata gracia) at the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois.
  • Photo: Horned shark (Heterodontus francisci) at the Arizona- Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Photo: A male patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas patas) at Safari North in Brainerd, Minnesota.
  • A Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) from the Colorado River. (IUCN: Vulnerable, US: Endangered)
  • Picture of a Mapleleaf mussel (Quadrula quadrula) at the Columbus Zoo.
  • Picture of Thomson's gazelles (Eudorcas thomsonii) at the Columbus Zoo.
  • Photo: A male flame bowerbird (Sericulus ardens) at the Lembang Park and Zoo in Lembang, West Java, Indonesia.
  • Photo: A Percival’s legless skink (Acontias percivali) at Prague Zoo. This species lives underground in Tanzania, but it full range remains undetermined.
  • Photo: A plum-headed finch (Neochmia modesta) at the Thisa Zoo in Stekene, Belgium.
  • Solange, a federally endangered female pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis). She was born in May of 2007. She is 81.5% Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, and the rest is the Idaho race. Since there are no male Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits left, this means only animals intercrossed with the Idaho race will survive.
  • Photo: Vernal hanging parrot (Loriculus vernalis) at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • Photo: An ornate boxfish (Aracana ornata) at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium.
  • Photo: A Tennessee shiner (Notropis leuciodus) collected on the Little River near Maryville Tennessee.
  • Photo: A long-tailed bushbaby (Otolemur crassicaudatus) at Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina.
  • Photo: A white-headed lapwing (Vanellus albiceps) at Lundi Farm in Verl, Germany.
  • A picture of a female paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata) at The Animal Sanctuary, an animal rehab center in Warkworth, New Zealand.
  • Picture of a vulnerable Laotian langur or white-browed black langur (Trachypithecus laotum) at the Endangered Primate Rescue Center in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam.
  • Picture of a red legged seriema (Cariama cristata) at the Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic.
  • Photo: Red tailed amazon, Amazona brasiliensis, at Loro Parque Fundacion.
  • A picture of a red bamboo snake (Oreocryptophis porphyraceus laticincta) at the Fort Worth Zoo.
  • Picture of a black-headed siskin (Spinus notatus) from a private collection.
  • Photo: Gulf pipefish (Syngnathus scovelli) at the Oklahoma City Zoo.
  • Photo: Common carp (Cyprinus carpio) at the Fish Conservation and Culture Lab in Byron, CA at UC Davis.
  • A wild caught orangethroat darter (Etheostoma spectabile) in Missouri.
  • Photo: A hibernating thick-tailed pygmy jerboa (Salpingotus crassicauda) at the Moscow Zoo.
  • Photo: Black cap jawfish (Opistognathus randalli) at Pure Aquariums.
  • Great Basin spadefoot toad (Spea intermontana) at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
  • Photo: A dyeing poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius) at Josh’s Frogs in Owosso, Michigan.This individual is a 'Brazilian Yellow Head’ morph.
  • Photo: An ocellated uromastyx lizard (uromastyx hardwickii) at the Denver Zoo.
  • Photo: A red-billed firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala rendalli) at Explore Gorongosa, Mozambique, Africa.
  • An eyelash viper (Bothriechis schlegelii) at Reptile Gardens.
  • A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) at Zoo Atlanta. This endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered species is native to China.
  • A white-striped gecko (Gonatodes vittatus) from a private collection.
  • Picture of a critically endangered red phased Lehmann's poison frog, also known as a red-banded poison frog, (Oophaga lehmanni) at the Cali Zoo in Colombia.
  • Photo: A Montane leopard frog (Lithobates taylori) from the Tapir Valley of Costa Rica.
  • Photo: Murray Banded Huntsman (Holconia murrayensis) from the Melbourne Museum
  • A meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus pennsylvanicus) from Watertown, New York.
  • Photo: A unidentified northern caddisfly (Limnephilus sp.) in a protective case it made out of leaves to hide itself in a stream, collected by the West Liberty University Crayfish Conservation Lab. This insect was collected from Davis, West Virginia.
  • Photo: A rusty-barred owl, Strix hylophila, at Tierpark Berlin.
  • Photo: An Island day gecko (Phelsuma nigristriata) at the Plzen Zoo.
  • Photo: A male Texas raccoon (Procyon lotor fuscipes) named Ranger.
  • Photo: A lesser siren, Siren cf. intermedia, collected from a tributary of the Choctawhatchee River, Florida.
  • Picture of a whooping motmot (Momotus subrufescens) at the National Aviary breeding center in Palmar, Colombia.
  • Photo: A Peruvian red-snouted treefrog (Scinax ruber) at the Urku Center, Tarapoto, Peru.
  • Photo: Southern kingfish (Menticirrhus americanus) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.
  • Photo: A monacled cobra (Naga kauthia) at Reptile Gardens.
  • Photo: A Colombian golden tegu (Tupinambis cryptus) at Bahitoo Farm in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
  • Photo: A male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at the Wilder Institute Calgary Zoo’s Devonian Wildlife Conservation Center in Alberta, Canada.
  • A gulf fritillary butterfly (Agraulis vanillae incarnata) at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas.
  • A unique color variant of an eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) named "Blondie" at the Saint Louis Zoo. When she came from North Carolina to the zoo as a juvenile, she only had a couple of orange spots. Over the past 12 years her color has morphed into this very showy orange.
  • Photo: An endangered red-fronted macaw (Ara rubrogenys) at the Miller Park Zoo.
  • A centipede (Scolopendra viridis) at the Archbold Biological Station.
  • Picture of an American white ibis (Eudocimus albus albus) at the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, Texas.
  • An endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered Alabama red-bellied turtle (Pseudemys alabamensis) at the Tennesee Aquarium.
  • Photo: A depression crayfish (Cambarus rusticiformis) at the West Liberty University Crayfish Conservation Lab in West Liberty, West Virginia.
  • Photo: A group of Florida augers (Neoterebra dislocata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.
  • Photo: A rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta millaisi) at Lundi Farm in Verl, Germany.
  • Photo: A honey badger (Mellivora capensis cottoni) at Tierpark Berlin.
  • A llama (Lama glama) after a recent summer haircut at the Lincoln Children's Zoo.
  • Photo: A thick-pincer scorpion (Vachoniolus globimanus) at Fujairah Wildlife in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
  • Photo: A Ganzhorn’s mouse-lemur (Microcebus ganzhorni) at the Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic.
  • Photo: A female Mindanao tarictic hornbill (Penelopides affinis affinis) at the Avilon Zoo.
  • Photo: A male indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea) in Hudson, WI.
  • Photo: A great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) at Walsrode Bird Park in Walsrode, Germany.
  • Photo: A grey forest wallaby (Dorcopsis luctuosa) at Taman Safari.
  • Picture of a vulnerable hispaniolan amazon or parrot (Amazona ventralis) at the Knoxville Zoo in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • Photo: Portrait of a hibernating Arctic ground squirrel (Spermopilus parryii) at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
  • Picture of a mountain pitviper (Ovophis monticola monticola) at the Saint Louis Zoo.
  • Photo: Purple vamprie crab (Geosesarma dennerle) from a private collection.
  • Photo: A juvenile many-colored fruit dove (Ptilinopus perousii) at the Toledo Zoo.
  • A picture of a black-bellied plover or grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola cynosurae), in winter plumage, at the Marathon Wild Bird Center in Marathon, Florida.
  • Photo: A red hake (Urophycis chuss) at the Maine State Aquarium in West Boothbay, ME.
  • A sturgeon chub (Macrhybopsis gelida) at the Nebraska Game & Parks Commission, Nebraska.
  • Photo: A yellow-lipped snakehead (Channa ornatipinnis) at Shirley Aquatics in Wythall, England.
  • A picture of a habu viper (Protobothrops flavoviridis flavoviridis) at the San Antonio Zoo.
  • Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery.
  • Picture of a twenty eight parrot or Australian ringneck parrot (Barnardius zonarius semitorquatus) at Parrots in Paradise, a bird attraction in Glass House Mountains, Queensland.
  • Photo: Black and white Helen (Papilio nephelus sunatus) at Malacca Butterfly and Reptile Sanctuary.
  • A picture of the tail of a giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis) from a private collection.
  • Photo: An eastern blacknose dace (Rhinichthys atratulus) photographed at Schramm Education Center, Gretna, Nebraska.
  • Photo: A female painted greenling (Oxylebius pictus) at Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA.
  • A picture of a critically endangered golden thread turtle (Mauremys sinensis) at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas.
  • Photo: A Loja rocket frog (Hyloxalus elachyhistus) at Balsa de los Sapos.
  • Picture of an Eastern long-nose viper, (Vipera ammodytes meridionalis) from Syrose, Greece, at the St. Louis Zoo.
  • A picture of a critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered Houston toad (Anaxyrus houstonensis) at the San Antonio Zoo in Texas.
  • Photo: A palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus aterrimus) at Jurong Bird Park.
  • An endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered snow leopard (Panthera uncia) at the Miller Park Zoo.
  • Photo: A turquoise monitor (Varanus caerulivirens) at Batu Secret Zoo and Eco Green Park in Batu, Indonesia.
  • Photo: An Eques cory (Corydoras eques) at the Denver Zoo.
  • A picture of a critically endangered Burmese big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum peguense) at Turtle Island in Graz, Austria.
  • Photo: A vulnerable bare faced curassow (Crax fasciolata) at the Faunia zoo in Madrid, Spain.
  • Photo: A black-tailed marmoset (Mico melanurus) at Hemsley Conservation Centre in Fairseat, England.
  • Photo: Blue color phase of the red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) at the Insectarium in New Orleans.
  • A picture of a striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis varians) at The Wildlife Center in New Mexico.
  • Photo: A male, Harris's hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus unicinctus) at Zoologico de Quito.
  • Photo: A female dusky Canada goose (Branta canadensis occidentalis) at Sylvan Heights Waterfowl.
  • A picture of a small-toothed palm civet (Arctogalidia trivirgata stigmaticus) at Night Safari, part of Wildlife Reserves Singapore.
  • Photo: A critically endangered negros bleeding-heart pigeon, Gallicolumba keayi, at theTalarak Foundation.
  • A Himalayan salamander (Tylototriton verrucosus) at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas.
  • Photo: A Cotinga River toadhead turtle (Phrynops tuberosus) from a private collection.
  • Photo: A unidentified turtle leech (Placobdella sp.) at the West Liberty University Crayfish Conservation Lab in West Liberty, Virginia.
  • Picture of a flagfin shiner (Pteronotropis signipinnis) at the U.S. Geological Survey Southeast Science Center.
  • Picture of a critically endangered male Delacour's langur (Trachypithecus delacouri) at the Endangered Primate Rescue Center in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam.
  • Photo: A mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) at Bahitoo Farm in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
  • Photo: Palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus) at the Houston Zoo.
  • Photo: An Eastern forktail damselfly (Ischnura verticalis) at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center near Denton, NE.
  • A northern cricket frog (Acris crepitans) at Spring Creek Prairie near Denton.
  • Picture of a female adult common starling (Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris) at Centro Fauna Selvatica "Il Pettirosso".
  • A female, vulnerable African elephant (Loxodonta africana) at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
  • A great grey owl (Strix nebulosa nebulosa) at the New York State Zoo.
  • An endangered tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) at the Australia Zoo.
  • Photo: Pompadour cotinga (Xipholena punicea) at the Dallas World Aquarium.
  • Photo: A panel elimia (Elimia laqueata) from North Fork Creek, Tennessee.
  • Photo: An Indonesian giant sailfin dragon (Hydrosaurus microlophus) at Batu Secret Zoo and Eco Green Park in Batu, Indonesia.
  • Photo: Giant wood rail (Aramides ypecaha) in Choussy, France.
  • Picture of a flag rockfish (Sebastes rubrivinctus) at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.
  • Photo: Loggerhead Sponge (Spheciospongia vesparium) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.
  • Photo: A black skirt tetra (Gymnocorymbus ternetzi) at the Institute of Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS) at Gulfport, MS. This animal is part of their public education area.
  • Picture of a Duvaucel's gecko (Hoplodactylus duvaucelii) at the Auckland Zoo.
  • A leaf beetle (Colaspis sp.) photographed at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center near Denton, NE. This animal was originally collected from Bobcat Prairie near Denton, NE.
  • Picture of a bull elk with his antlers in velvet (Cervus canadensis) at the Oklahoma City Zoo.
  • Photo: A Madagascar hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa) from the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Picture of a cat ba cave gecko (Goniurosaurus catbaensis) at the St. Louis Zoo.
  • Photo: Chihuahuan hook-nosed snake (Gyalopion canum) from a private collection.
  • Picture of a Southern leaf-tailed gecko (Saltuarius swaini) at the Healesville Sanctuary.
  • An endangered lar gibbon (Hylobates lar) at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas.
  • An endangered white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) at the Gladys Porter Zoo.
  • Photo: A desert horned viper (Cerastes cerastes cerastes) at Reptile Gardens.
  • Photo: A common Madagascar skink (Madascincus cf. melanopleura) at the Plzen Zoo.
  • Photo: An adult male northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii) at International Bird Rescue, a wildlife rehab center north of San Francisco.
  • A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis) at the Gladys Porter Zoo.
  • Photo: An endangered humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) at the Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks, Oklahoma.
  • Photo: A shrimp (Caridina lanceifrons) from a private collection.
  • Photo: Joel Sartore (left) and Pierre Chabannes on a spider shoot at Museum of Nature South Tyrol in Bolzano, Italy.
  • Photo: An adult male Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) at the Al Mayya Sanctuary in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
  • Whitetail shiner (Cyprinella galactura) at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This is a common species of stream fish that's being used for mussel propagation work.
  • Photo: Half-black angelfish (Centropyge vroliki) from Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories.
  • Photo: A striped bumblebee shrimp (Gnathophyllum americanum) at De Jong Marinelife in Spijk, Netherlands.
  • Photo: A female yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) at St. Francis Wildlife, a rehab center in Quincy, FL.
  • Photo: An American marten (Martes americana) named ‘Joey’ at the Indianapolis Zoo.
  • A southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus) at the Lincoln Children's Zoo, Lincoln, Nebraska. (IUCN: Near Threatened)
  • Photo: A female Asian emerald cockroach (Corydidarum magnifica) at the Berlin Zoological Garden in Berlin, Germany.
  • Photo: A male rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum) from the Buffalo River, downstream near the confluence of Grinders Creek in Lewis County, Tennessee.
  • A picture of a black-bellied plover or grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola cynosurae), in winter plumage, at the Marathon Wild Bird Center in Marathon, Florida.
  • An Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi willardi) at the St. Louis Zoo.
  • A picture of a female Malayan great argus pheasant (Argusianus argus argus) at Redmon Aviaries. This species is listed as vulnerable by IUCN.
  • Picture of a Florida waterdog (Necturus lodingi) from a private collection.
  • Photo: A juvenile northern rough-winged swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis serripennis) at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota.
  • Photo: A giant coua (Coua gigas) at Walsrode Bird Park in Walsrode, Germany.
  • Photo: A Berlioz’s silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera berliozi) at Tierpark Berlin.
  • Photo: A ivory tusk shell (Graptacme eborea) with unidentified polychaete worm at Gulf Specimen in Panacea, Florida.
  • Photo: A male Petter's chameleon (Furcifer petteri) from a private collection in St. Augustine, Florida.
  • Photo: Lesser Bornean mousedeer (Tragulus kanchil klossi) at the Singapore Zoo.
  • Picture of a praying mantis (Mantis religiosa) at the Houston Zoo.
  • Photo: A group of juvenile Appalachian monkeyface mussel (Theliderma sparsa) from the Powell River, Tennessee photographed at the Aquatic Wildlife Conservation Center in Marion, Virginia.
  • Picture of a warty sea anemone (Bunodosoma cavernatum) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.
  • Photo: A barred rainbowfish (Chilatherina fasciata) at Zoo Leipzig in Germany.
  • Photo: A spiny skink (Tribolonotus novaeguineae) at Petra Aqua.
  • A picture of a blackbelt cichlid (Vieja maculicauda) at the Dallas Children's Aquarium.
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