Rainforest

The African forest elephant moves through the rainforests of western and central Africa.

Grey parrots are social African birds with grey feathers, a red tail and a strong curved bill.

Anteaters are insect-eating mammals with elongated snouts.

Armadillos are American mammals with bony armour.

The Asian elephant is a large herbivore native to southern and southeastern Asia.

The Asian palm civet is a small, cat-like viverrid of South and Southeast Asia that climbs trees at night to eat fruit.

The atlas moth is a large silk moth of Asian tropical and subtropical forests.

The aye-aye is a nocturnal Madagascan primate with large ears and an unusually slender middle finger.

Baboons are social African monkeys.

Basilisks are tropical American lizards.

The binturong is a large, shaggy civet of the South and Southeast Asian forest canopy.

Birds-of-paradise are renowned for elaborate courtship displays.

The bonobo is a great ape of the Congo Basin.

The Bornean orangutan is the largest tree-living animal in the world.

The Burmese python is a large Asian constrictor with dark blotches.

Capuchins are agile American monkeys with grasping tails and varied diets.

Cassowaries are large flightless forest birds.

Centipedes are many-legged predators.

The chimpanzee is an African great ape that feeds mainly on fruit and other plant foods.

The Christmas Island red crab is a land crab that spends most of its life on the forest floor.

The clouded leopard is a mid-sized cat of the forests of the Himalayan foothills, Southeast Asia and southern China.

Cockatoos are parrots with mobile head crests.

The coconut crab is the largest land-living arthropod.

The crested gecko is a nocturnal lizard native to New Caledonia.

The emperor scorpion is a large, glossy black arachnid from western Africa.

Flying foxes are fruit bats with large eyes and fox-like faces.

The fossa is the largest carnivorous mammal on Madagascar, a cat-like relative of the mongooses that hunts lemurs in the trees.

The gaur, or Indian bison, is the largest of all wild cattle, a forest bovine of India and Southeast Asia.

Gibbons are small apes adapted to travelling through trees.

Glass frogs are small tree-dwelling amphibians with translucent undersides.

The golden poison frog is the most poisonous animal known.

The Goliath birdeater is the heaviest spider in the world.

The goliath frog is an exceptionally large frog of equatorial African rivers.

Gorillas are large African great apes that feed mainly on plants.

The green anaconda is a heavy-bodied South American boa associated with slow-moving water.

The green iguana is a large tree-climbing lizard of tropical America.

The harpy eagle is the most powerful bird of prey in the American rainforest, with rear talons the length of a grizzly bear's claws.

The hoatzin is a crested bird of Amazon swamp forest that lives on leaves and ferments them in a huge crop.

Hornbills are tropical birds with large bills.

Howler monkeys are tree-dwelling American primates known for their powerful calls.

The Indian cobra is a venomous South Asian snake known for spreading a broad hood.

The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas and the third largest in the world.

The king cobra is the longest venomous snake.

The kinkajou is a small nocturnal relative of the raccoon that lives in the canopy of tropical forests from Mexico to Brazil.

Leafcutter ants carry pieces of leaf back to the nest, but they do not eat them.

The leopard is a spotted big cat that lives across Africa and Asia in more kinds of country than any other cat.

The leopard cat is a small spotted cat found across South, Southeast and East Asia, from Pakistan to the Russian Far East.

Lyrebirds are Australian forest birds famed for complex songs.

Macaws are long-tailed New World parrots.

The mandrill is the largest monkey and one of the most colourful mammals, with a red and blue face and a rump to match.

The ocelot is a medium-sized spotted cat of the Americas, from Texas to northern Argentina.

Orangutans are Asian great apes adapted to life in trees.

Pangolins are scaled mammals specialized for eating insects.

The panther chameleon is one of the most colourful lizards in the world.

The Philippine eagle is the longest eagle in the world, a crested forest hunter found on only four Philippine islands.

Poison dart frogs are colourful tropical amphibians.

The red junglefowl is a shy forest-edge bird of South and Southeast Asia, and the wild ancestor of the domestic chicken.

The boa constrictor is a patterned American snake that captures prey by constriction.

The red-eyed tree frog sleeps by day under a leaf with its colours hidden.

The reticulated python is a large constricting snake of Southeast Asia.