Indonesia

🦧Orangutan: The person of the forest, a red-haired great ape found only in the rainforest canopies of Borneo and Sumatra.

🦎Komodo Dragon: The world's largest lizard, a three-metre apex predator that rules a handful of Indonesian islands.

🦅Bali Starling: One of the rarest birds on Earth, a snow-white starling with electric-blue eye patches, found only on Bali.

🐠Clownfish: The anemone's roommate, a bright orange reef fish that lives immune among stinging tentacles and swaps sex when the dominant female dies.

🐙Octopus: Eight arms, three hearts, one brilliant mind, the most intelligent invertebrate in the sea.

🐢Sea Turtle: Ancient mariner of the tropics, a reptile that crosses oceans and returns to the same beach where it hatched decades earlier.

🐾Pangolin: The world's most trafficked mammal, a scaly anteater that curls into an armoured ball when threatened.

🐘Asian Elephant: Smaller-eared cousin of the African elephant — temple icon, forest engineer, and one of Asia's most beloved giants.

🦧Proboscis Monkey: Borneo's big-nosed river primate — pot-bellied, superbly adapted to swimming, and impossible to confuse with anything else.

🐍King Cobra: The world's longest venomous snake — a hooded forest hunter that eats other snakes.

👀Sunda Slow Loris: Huge eyes, deliberate moves, and a venomous bite — Southeast Asia's nocturnal slow-motion primate.

🛸Giant Manta Ray: Ocean wings — the largest ray, gliding through blue water with a wingspan that can top seven metres.

🦈Scalloped Hammerhead: The hammer-headed schooler — a shark whose wide-set eyes and scalloped head are built for hunting.

🐆Clouded Leopard: Asia's cloud-patterned climber — short legs, long tail, and canines built for the canopy.

🦧Lar Gibbon: The singing ape of Southeast Asia — long arms, hook-like hands, and duets that claim the canopy.

🦤Great Hornbill: A casque like carved ivory — Asia's great hornbill, booming through tall rainforest.

🐢Hawksbill Turtle: The reef's patterned shell — a tropical turtle with a hawk-like beak built for sponges.

🐋Dugong: The sea cow of warm coasts — gentle grazer of seagrass from Australia to the Indo-Pacific.

🌸Orchid Mantis: A living blossom with a strike — petal-leg camouflage from Indonesia's rainforests.

🦐Peacock Mantis Shrimp: Rainbow smash specialist — club claws that crack shells with underwater shockwaves.

🐻Sun Bear: Smallest bear, longest tongue — orange chest blaze and honey-raiding rainforest stealth.

👀Spectral Tarsier: Dinner-plate eyes in the dark — leaping Sulawesi primate with a voice like a camera shutter.

🦜Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise: Flame-orange flank plumes in rainforest lek — Papua New Guinea’s national bird, West Papua too.