Young boy crouched down to get a better look at a baby tiger cub at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park

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Mother cheetah laying in grass with cub

African cheetah

African dwarf crocodile walking on sand dotted with crab grass

African dwarf crocodile

African elephant with ears extended

African elephant

Male African lion

Closeup of an African penguin in front of a field of tall dry grass

African penguin

Allen's swamp monkey face.

Allen's swamp monkey

American Alligator

American alligator

Mother flamingo sits on a mud mound nest as her chick rests folded under her wing with tiny fuzzy gray head peeking out.

American flamingo

Anaconda curled up

Andean bear

Male Anna's hummingbird perched on a small branch

Anna's hummingbird

Arabian oryx eating hay.

Arctic fox laying on pine forest floor.

B

Babirusa with tusks.

Bald eagle looking left in front of a green leafy background

A honeybee on honeycomb

Bee-eater with bee in its beak.

Tanimbar blue tongue skink

Blue-tongued skink

bonobo looking right.

Grizzly Bear in front of pool of water

A burrowing owl cocks its head slightly to the right as it stares straight into the camera

A small orange, black, brown and white spotted butterfly drinks nectar from a small pink flower

C

California condor perched in tree.

California condor

California sea lion looking right as it sits on a sandy beach

California sea lion

Baby capybara climbing on mother's back.

Coati on a large boulder.

Male cock-of-the-rock

Cock-of-the-rock

Coconut crab hanging onto a wood log behind a small palm frond

Cockerel's sifaka with mouth sightly agape

Coquerel's Sifaka

D

Dhole standing in front of a green shrub.

A dung beetle sitting atop a small ball of dung

E

East African crowned crane standing in green field.

East African crowned crane

Australian echidna walking down a dirt path.

Emu looking straight into the camera

F

Fiji iguana sitting on a piece of wood

Fire salamander climbing over a small wood branch

Fire salamander

Fishing cat behind bamboo.

Greater flamingos

Adult fossa looking off to the left, standing in front of rocky wall.

G

A pair of Galapagos tortoises standing on dirt ground.

Galápagos tortoise

New Caledonian Crested Gecko

Gharial laying on sandy river bank.

A panda cub on a tree branch looks at us.

Gila monster lizard facing camera flicking black forked tongue

Baby giraffe standing in front of adult giraffes' haunches

Great horned owl with wings spread

Great horned owl

H

Male hamadryas baboon looking off to the side.

Hamadryas baboon

Harpy eagle looking off to the right with its crown feathers flared.

Honey badger, or ratel

Honey badger (ratel)

J

Male Jackson's chameleon perched on a dried piece of wood.

Jackson's chameleon

Jaguar looking to the left as it climbs down a tree trunk

K

Klipspringer peaking out from in between large kopje boulders.

Koala mother holding baby

Komodo dragon facing left with it's large forked tongue sticking out.

L

Kookaburra

Laughing kookaburra

A pair of leafcutter ants carrying a piece of leaf.

Leafcutter Ants

Leopard shark swimming in front of tall kelp trees

M

Close-up of a Man Mountain pit viper with it's pink tongue flicking

Mang Mountain pit viper

A meerkat stands on all fours on a dirt mound, looking at the camera

Mountain lion

N

New guinea singing dog with mouth open in a howl

New Guinea singing dog

North American porcupine holding onto a piece of gnawed wood

North American porcupine

North American raccoon walking across log in the woods.

North American raccoon

O

Okapi

Male orangutan face with cheek pads

P

PAlm cockatoo with crest feathers flared and bright red cheek patch partially concealed

Peacock displaying his elaborate tail feathers

Platypus on semi-submerged log.

Blue poison frog sitting on a bright green tropical leaf

Polar bear standing on snow

Ball python curled up onto itself.

R

Rattlesnake wit rattle raised

A pair of Southern White Rhinos

Ring-tailed lemur face

Ring-tailed lemur

Young hippo half peeking out of the water

Rodrigues fruit bat

Rodrigues fruit bat

S

Secretary bird looking straight at the camera

Snow leopard sitting on a snow-covered rock cliff

Southern Cassowary

Southern cassowary

Orb-weaver spider on dew covered web

Spotted hyena

T

Takin baby and mother nuzzling

Baird's tapir on a grass field

Mexican fireleg tarantula sitting on rocky ground next to green succulents

Tasmanian devil standing on tall green grass

Tasmanian devil

Three-banded armadillo walking across a grass field

Three-Banded armadillo

Sumatran tiger prowling

Toco toucan

Matschie's Tree kangaroo

Two-toed sloth eating a red apple with one claw while hanging upside down.

V

Virginia opossum on dried leaves.

Virginia opossum

W

Warthog with tusks

Western lowland gorilla silverback

Western lowland gorilla

Southern white rhino

Z

A pair of zebras with their muzzles close together

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