Apteryx mantelli

The North Island brown kiwi is New Zealand’s national bird and one of the most evolutionarily unique animals on Earth — a flightless, nocturnal bird…

Erethizon dorsatum

The North American porcupine is a large, slow-moving rodent instantly recognized by its coat of roughly 30,000 hollow quills. It is the only New World…

Agkistrodon contortrix

The eastern copperhead is North America’s most commonly encountered venomous snake, a pit viper found across the eastern and central United States in deciduous forests,…

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

The giant panda is one of the world’s most recognisable endangered mammals, native to the mountain bamboo forests of central China. Despite being classified in…

Cervus canadensis

The elk, or wapiti, is one of the largest members of the deer family and one of the largest land mammals in North America and…

Dryocopus pileatus

The pileated woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in North America, a crow-sized bird with a flaming red crest that excavates large, rectangular cavities in dead…