Girls hit your hallelujah [TRONIC SCREECH]

Greater one-horned rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis

Defassa waterbuck Kobus defassa, left

Northern warthog Phacochoerus africanus africanus, right

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

Wild water buffalo Bubalus arnee

American bison Bos bison

Lowland bongo Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus

With red-billed oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus

Mountain goat Oreamnos americanus

Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), family Sphenodontidae, order Rhynchocephalia, endemic to New Zealand

Once considered ENDANGERED, they have been upgraded to Least Concern now.

There were once considered to be 2 species of Tuatara, but now there is only one species recognized.

This is not a lizard.

Tuataras can grow to a total length of up to 80 cm (31 in).

This is the only member of the reptile group Rhynchocephalia that is still around. All other species went extinct millions of years ago.

Tuataras were eradicated by humans and introduced species from the main islands of New Zealand, and now only occur on small islands near the North Island and far north of the South Island. (*There has been some modest success re-introducing them to the main islands.)

Tuataras are mainly insectivorous.

The oldest known tuatara is around 130 years old!

This is one of my very favorite animals!!!

Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus m. magister), male in breeding colors, family Phrynosomatidae, Arizona, USA

Green-tailed Sunbird (Aethopyga nipalensis), male, family Nectariniidae, order Passeriformes, India