Diurnal
Active during daylight hours, relying on color vision and solar warmth to feed and navigate.
Alpine Chamois
Mountain relative of goats and antelopes, with hooves that grip slippery rock and hook-tipped horns on females as well as males.
Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
A keystone rodent that digs towns of multi-chamber burrows, and whose shrill jump-yip seems to set off the neighbors.
Bold Jumping Spider
A daytime stalker from a spider family whose forward-looking resolution beats every insect's, trailing a safety line of silk when it jumps.
Common Warthog
Tusked survivor that usually backs into a borrowed aardvark burrow, so its tusks face whatever comes calling.
Gerenuk
A bipedal antelope of Africa's dry thornbush that rears onto its hind legs to reach leaves other antelope can't, and does not drink standing water, relying instead on the succulent plants it eats.
Hummingbird Hawk-Moth
A day-flying moth that hangs in front of flowers while a special patch of its eye fixes on the flower's entrance.
Indian Peafowl
Iridescent member of the pheasant family whose feathers get their color from a two-dimensional photonic crystal, and whose train rattles out a broadband, pulsating sound.
Japanese Macaque
The world's northernmost wild monkey, meeting -20°C mountain winters with long fur, huddles and, in one valley, a hot-spring soak that may help keep it warm.
Lowland Streaked Tenrec
A black-and-yellow striped Madagascan tenrec, roughly 125 to 280 g, with back quills that rub together to make high-frequency sound.
Pygmy Marmoset
The world's smallest monkey, small enough to fit in a human hand, gouges holes in tree bark and laps up the sap that puddles inside.
Rock Hyrax
A stub-tailed, rabbit-like rock climber with singing males, whose closest living relatives are elephants and manatees.
Strawberry Poison-Dart Frog
A 2-gram rainforest frog in warning colors, whose poison appears to come from the ants and mites it eats.
White-Nosed Coati
A long-nosed forager that sniffs scorpions and spiders out of the forest floor.