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Small Animals

The petite members of the animal kingdom, from pocket-sized pets to backyard birds.

Chihuahua

The world's smallest recognized dog breed

Hamster

The tiny rodent that logs marathon miles on a wheel each night

Hummingbird (Ruby-throated)

A flying jewel that beats its wings 53 times per second

Red-Eyed Tree Frog

The neon-eyed poster child of tropical rainforests

Gecko (Tokay)

A loud, colorful lizard that can walk on ceilings

Domestic Cat

Humanity's favorite apex predator in a 4.5 kg package

Corgi

The low-rider herding dog favored by royalty

Bald Eagle

America's national bird and a fearsome aerial hunter

Emperor Penguin

The tallest penguin and deepest avian diver on Earth

Fennec Fox

The Sahara's smallest fox with the largest ears-to-body ratio

Three-Toed Sloth

The world champion of doing absolutely nothing quickly

Hedgehog

A spiny ball of attitude that can run 6 km per night

Capybara

The world's largest rodent and everyone's favorite chill animal

Red Panda

The original panda, discovered 48 years before its giant namesake

Platypus

The venomous, egg-laying, duck-billed mammal that broke taxonomy

Axolotl

The perpetually smiling salamander that can regrow its own brain

Sugar Glider

A palm-sized marsupial that glides 50 meters between trees

Veiled Chameleon

A tree-dwelling color-shifting sharpshooter

Pangolin (Sunda)

The world's most trafficked mammal

African Grey Parrot

The Einstein of the bird world

Peregrine Falcon (In Stoop)

The fastest animal alive at 389 km/h

Bee Hummingbird

The smallest bird in the world, lighter than a penny

Shoebill

A prehistoric-looking stork with a shoe-shaped beak

Kea

The world's only alpine parrot, and a notorious car vandal

Resplendent Quetzal

The sacred bird of Mesoamerican civilizations

Superb Lyrebird

A bird that can mimic chainsaws, camera shutters, and car alarms

Atlantic Puffin

The clown of the sea with a beak full of fish

Hoatzin

A punk-crested bird whose chicks have claws on their wings

Greater Roadrunner

A ground-dwelling cuckoo that outruns rattlesnakes

Magnificent Riflebird

A bird of paradise with a velvet-black courtship display

Great Frigatebird

A pirate of the skies with the largest wingspan-to-weight ratio of any bird

Andean Condor

The largest flying bird by combined weight and wingspan

Kiwi Bird

A flightless bird with nostrils at the tip of its beak

Toucan

A tropical bird whose beak is a third of its total length

Flamingo

A pink wading bird that eats upside down

Pelican

A waterbird with a throat pouch that holds more than its stomach

Porcupine

A rodent wearing 30,000 sharp reminders to keep your distance

Armadillo

A mammal in a suit of bony armor plates

Opossum

North America's only marsupial, famous for playing dead

Chinchilla

A rodent with the densest fur of any land mammal

Slow Loris

One of the few venomous mammals, with enormous nocturnal eyes

Golden Lion Tamarin

A tiny golden primate that nearly went extinct in the 1960s