American alligators are large aquatic reptiles with strong jaws, armor-like bodies and muscular tails.

Bears are powerful, majestic animals who face numerous threats.

Named for their stubby tails, bobcats are so elusive that you’d be lucky to catch a glimpse of one in your lifetime.

Chinchillas are small rodents native to South America who live in large colonies.

Sensitive, intelligent elephants are the world’s largest land mammal (by weight) and a living link to long-extinct species like the woolly mammoth.

Ferrets are playful, curious carnivores who have become popular pets.

Fish are aquatic animals who live in diverse habitats.

Giraffes are gentle giants.

Combine a bulbous snout with a prominent jaw, a body like a beer keg set on four stubby legs, and you have a hippopotamus.

They look like a deer crossed with a giant jack rabbit; with long, muscular tails and belly pouches, kangaroos are the world’s largest marsupial.

African lions are stunning and iconic creatures in danger of extinction.

Manatees are large, gentle marine mammals who eat only aquatic plants.

Mink are semi-aquatic mammals similar in appearance to weasels and ferrets.

Whether you call them mountain lions or cougars, they’re one of the most adaptable big cats in the Western Hemisphere.

Members of the weasel family, otters are known for their elongated bodies, webbed feet and playful antics, particularly their love of sliding down rocks, banks or waterfalls.

Sporting their tux-with-tails plumage, penguins are one of Earth’s most charismatic and recognizable birds.

Depending on pack ice for their habitat, polar bears are threatened by climate change—and by traffic in their fur and parts.

One of the largest living land mammals, rhinoceroses once shared the earth with saber-toothed cats and the earliest humanlike apes.

Sheep are complex and intelligent animals.

Tigers are the largest cat species, with striped coat patterns as unique as fingerprints.