Fish
This gentle ocean animal is the largest fish in the world and has a spotted body.
What is a whale shark?
This orange-and-black striped, large cat is threatened by habitat loss and poaching.
What is a tiger?
This sea turtle has a pointed, birdlike beak and a patterned shell.
What is the hawksbill sea turtle?
This pink Mexican salamander lives underwater and keeps its feathery gills throughout its life.
What is the axolotl?
This tall white bird with black-tipped wings is one of the rarest cranes in North America.
What is the whooping crane?
This fish has a long, flat nose shaped like a saw.
What is a sawfish?
This enormous ocean mammal is the largest animal ever known to live on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
This giant lizard lives on a few Indonesian islands and has a powerful bite., it is named after a mythological, fire-breathing reptile.
What is the Komodo dragon?
This brightly colored frog from Panama is named after the precious metal it resembles.
What is the Panamanian golden frog?
This enormous bird has a bald head and is one of the rarest birds in North America.
What is the California condor?
This large, fast fish is commonly caught for food, like sushi.
What is the southern bluefin tuna?
This red-haired ape lives in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.
What is an orangutan?
This crocodile relative has an extremely long, narrow snout used to catch fish.
What is the gharial?
This brightly colored frog has poisonous skin and lives in Colombia’s rainforests.
What is the golden poison frog?
This intelligent gray bird is famous for copying human speech.
What is the African grey parrot?
This ancient-looking fish has rows of bony plates and is sometimes hunted for its eggs, called caviar.
What is a sturgeon?
This large, black African animal has two horns and is hunted by poachers.
What is the black rhinoceros?
This small, rare alligator is found naturally only in China.
What is the Chinese alligator?
This huge salamander from Asia can grow longer than many adult humans are tall.
What is the Chinese giant salamander?
This large bird of prey lives in the Philippines and is sometimes called the monkey-eating eagle.
What is the Philippine eagle?
This very large reef fish has thick lips and a bump on its forehead.
What is the humphead wrasse?
This endangered ape lives in the mountains of central Africa and has thick, dark fur.
What is the mountain gorilla?
This tortoise from Madagascar has a beautiful shell covered in yellow, star-shaped patterns.
What is the radiated tortoise?
This endangered salamander lives in streams and is sometimes called a “snot otter.”
What is the Ozark hellbender?
This rare green parrot from New Zealand cannot fly and is active mostly at night.
What is the kākāpō?