Mexico

🦎Axolotl: The smiling salamander, a Mexican lake creature that never grows up and can regenerate its brain.

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

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

🐆Ocelot: Spotted stealth of the Americas — a medium wild cat threading rainforest and scrub by night.

🦝White-nosed Coati: Ring-tailed forager of the Americas — a mobile snout probing leaf litter and canopy.

🦎Gila Monster: Beaded venom of the Southwest — a slow, powerful lizard that stores fat in its tail.

🐒Geoffroy's Spider Monkey: Five-limbed canopy acrobat — prehensile tail, long arms, and Endangered rainforest grace.

🍯Kinkajou: Honey bear of the night canopy — prehensile tail, nectar tongue, and rainforest sweetness.

🦏Baird's Tapir: Living fossil of Mesoamerica — prehensile snout, stout body, and Endangered forest gardener.

🐦Greater Roadrunner: Desert sprinter with a crest — lizard hunter, sun-basker, and southwestern cartoon made real.

🐍Western Diamondback Rattlesnake: Diamond back, black-and-white tail rings — the Southwest’s most famous rattlesnake.