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

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

Bears are powerful, majestic animals who face numerous threats.

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

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

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