Toddlers

Although they’re not the largest giraffe subspecies, newborn reticulated giraffe infants can be as large as 6 feet tall at birth. It doesn’t take ...

The only living species of the genus Elephas (not to be confused with the family Elephantidae), Asian elephants are the largest land animal in Asi...

African Elephants are the largest land animals on Earth today, weighing between 2 and 7 tons. They are distinguished from Indian Elephants by the...

Although Bison once roamed the North American plains from North Mexico to Alaska, they now occupy just a fraction of their original range. These ...

Also called "Wapiti", the Elk is one of the largest members of the deer family, second only to the Moose. The name "Wapiti" comes from the Shawnee ...

Moose are northern creatures; their range extends throughout Alaska and Canada, down through the Rocky Mountains into Colorado, and in some sparse...

Pig is the name given baby hogs, what most people would call piglets. Born in litters of around 12, they will double in size their first week of ...

Black Bears live in all the wild areas of North America, including much of Canada and Alaska, throughout the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains, in ...

The ubiquitous red fox ranges throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Its colors help camouflage it on leafy forest floors and in tall grasse...

Wolves once ranged throughout the entire northern hemisphere, but human settlement and subsequent overhunting has diminished their range to about...

Giraffes live in scattered enclaves throughout sub-Saharan Africa. They are the tallest animals alive today, stretching to nearly 20 feet, and th...

Giant Pandas are closely related to bears, but they do have some unique qualities. For example, although they have the digestive systems of carni...

This mini figure displays the male Lion, for females don’t have manes. A male lion leads its pride, which may contain a handful of males along wi...

Chimpanzees live in a narrow strip of rainforest and grassland south of the Sahara Desert in western Africa. The omnivores are known for their in...

Known for their upright lookout posture, Meerkats live on the grasslands in the southern quarter of Africa, where they work together to create th...

The name Hippopotamus means River Horse, and Hippos truly do love the water. In fact, if one looks at a map of rivers in sub-Saharan Africa, one ...

Llamas are members of the camel family, though they lack the distinctive hump of more familiar camel species. Llamas are fully domesticated, and ...

With zero to sixty mph acceleration at only three seconds, and a max speed around seventy miles per hour, the cheetah is a perfect hunter. It nee...

Hedgehogs are small, shrew-like mammals whose fur has evolved into tiny spines that protect the hedgehog from predators. If threatened, the hedge...

Although it’s tempting to think all zebras look alike, each has a unique pattern of stripes, and zebras use these patterns to tell one another ap...

Sloths are slow-moving, tree dwelling mammals in the order Pilosa. Living sloth species are separated into two groups – the three-toed sloths and ...

Fennec Foxes are small foxes with very large ears that are found only in the Sahara Desert in Africa. They are the smallest species in the family...