Savanna

The aardvark is a pig-sized burrowing mammal of sub-Saharan Africa.

The aardwolf is the smallest member of the hyena family and eats almost nothing but termites.

The African buffalo is a heavy wild ox of sub-Saharan Africa that lives in herds of dozens to thousands and must drink every day.

The African bullfrog spends dry periods buried underground and becomes active with rain.

The African bush elephant is the largest land animal alive.

The African wild dog is a social canid with an irregularly patterned coat.

The African wildcat is a small striped cat of dry Africa and Asia, and the ancestor of every domestic cat.

Baboons are social African monkeys.

The ball python is a heavy-bodied African snake that curls around its head when threatened.

The barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.

The black mamba is a venomous African snake named for the dark lining of its mouth.

The black rhinoceros is a two-horned browser of eastern and southern Africa with a pointed, gripping upper lip.

The black-footed cat is Africa's smallest wild cat, a spotted night hunter of the dry grasslands of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.

The caracal is a slim, long-legged cat with black ear tufts, found across Africa and from Arabia to India.

The cheetah is the fastest land animal.

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

Cockatoos are parrots with mobile head crests.

The common nightingale is a small brown songbird of dense scrub in Europe and western Asia.

The common ostrich is the largest and heaviest living bird and lays the largest egg.

The emu is a tall flightless bird found only in Australia, and no native bird there stands higher.

The frilled lizard is a tree-dwelling reptile of northern Australia and southern New Guinea.

Gazelles are slender antelopes, but their habitats and ranges differ by species.

The giraffe is the tallest land animal.

The golden jackal is a small wolf-like canid of Europe and southern Asia that lives in lifelong pairs and eats anything from voles to fruit.

Guineafowl are ground-feeding African birds.

The hippopotamus spends its days in rivers and lakes and its nights grazing on land.

The honey badger is a stocky, loose-skinned mustelid that roams Africa, Arabia and India.

The hyacinth macaw is the longest parrot in the world, a cobalt blue bird with bare yellow skin around the eye.

The impala is a reddish-brown African antelope that both grazes and browses.

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

The Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard.

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

The lion is the only cat that lives in social groups.

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 maned wolf is the tallest wild dog in the world and the largest canid in South America.

The meerkat is a small mongoose of the dry plains of southern Africa.

Mongooses include solitary hunters and highly social species.

Monitor lizards are active foraging reptiles.

The monk parakeet is a small green parrot from southern South America with a pale grey face and breast.

The naked mole-rat is a hairless, wrinkled rodent that lives underground in East Africa in colonies ruled by one queen.

The nilgai is Asia's largest antelope, a heavy, thin-legged grazer of the scrub and farmland of northern India and Nepal.

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

The common ostrich is a large, ground-dwelling African bird.

The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial and the largest animal in Australia.

The rock hyrax is a squat, rabbit-sized mammal of African and Middle Eastern rock outcrops.

The rose-ringed parakeet is a slim green parrot with a red bill and a very long tail.

The serval is a slender African cat with the longest legs and largest ears of any cat for its size.

The sloth bear is a shaggy, long-clawed bear of India, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka that lives on termites, ants and fruit.

The southern cassowary is a huge flightless bird of the rainforests of New Guinea and northeast Australia.

The spotted hyena is Africa's most common large carnivore and a hunter first, not a scavenger.

The springbok is a slender antelope of dry southern African country.

Storks are large long-legged birds.

The striped hyena is a small, shaggy scavenger of dry country from North Africa to India.

Toucans are tropical American birds with prominent bills.

The white rhinoceros is the biggest and most social of the five living rhinos.

The white stork is a large white bird with black wings, a red bill and long red legs.

The white-tailed deer is the most widespread wild hoofed animal of the Americas, from Canada to Peru.

Wildebeest are grazing African antelopes.

Zebras are the striped African members of the horse genus Equus.