Agricultural
Foraging across farm pastures, crop fields, and grain silos, capitalizing on human agricultural landscapes.
American Crow
Learns a dangerous human face, and the scolding spreads from crow to crow.
Barn Owl
A heart-faced hunter that is completely silent on the wing and, in tests, found prey in total darkness by sound alone with an error of under one degree.
Bombardier Beetle
Miniature artillery specialist that blasts attackers with a chemical spray up to 100°C, fired in rapid pulses.
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
The shield-shaped bug whose name points to its scent glands, a fruit-eating invader from east Asia that has reached North America and Europe.
Chicken
The toothless bird whose gizzard does the chewing, whose hen usually lays an egg every 26 hours, and which outnumbers every other bird species.
Common Earthworm
A hermaphrodite that lives in deep vertical burrows and generally leaves them only to feed and mate.
Donkey
A working equid whose hee-haw can travel up to 3 km, domesticated in Africa around 5000 BCE.
Dromedary
The desert animal that lets its body warm to 41.7 degrees Celsius instead of sweating as the day heats up.
European Crane Fly
A gangly fly whose leather-skinned grubs mostly hide underground by day and feed at night.
European Hare
Mom parks her furry newborns apart and makes the rounds to nurse them.
European Harvestman
Not a spider: a stilt-legged arachnid with a body roughly 3.5 to 9 millimeters long.
European Starling
The iridescent mimic whose larger British winter roosts can top a million birds, and whose flocks can burst into a "flash expansion" after a falcon attacks.
Garden Snail
A night-feeding garden snail that seals itself shut to wait out hot, dry weather.
Gloucestershire Old Spot Pig
Large lop ears, black spots on white, and a history of feeding on windfall fruit in English orchards.
Goat
A domesticated ruminant with rectangular pupils and a digestive system that works nonstop.
House Mouse
A 12 to 30 gram squatter whose love songs are too high for human ears.
House Sparrow
A plain brown bird that developed regional differences in color and size in North America.
Housefly
A fly that tastes with its feet, sips only liquids and is a mechanical vector of more than 100 diseases.
Llama
A woolly Andean pack animal that makes heavy chain-only antibodies, one of which, raised by immunization, neutralized 96 of 100 HIV-1 strains tested.
Spotted Lanternfly
A planthopper, not a moth, that turns red as it stocks up on its host tree's chemical defences.
Suffolk Sheep
A jet-black, wool-free head and legs against a clean white fleece, on an English meat breed whose lambs can gain more than a pound a day.
Water Buffalo
A farm giant that can reach 1,000 kg and wallows in mud to cool off.