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Uncia uncia
(Snow leopard)
This beautiful cat is a white to smokey-grey colour, with yellow tinged fur and patterned dark-grey to black rosettes and spots....
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Urocyon littoralis
(Island fox)
The island fox is the smallest North American canid, found only on the California Channel Islands. A descendent of the mainland...
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1 Video
Ursus arctos gobiensis
(Gobi bear)
This subspecies of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a shy and elusive resident of the Gobi desert in Mongolia. Brown bears...
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3 Videos
Ursus maritimus
(Polar bear)
The polar bear is the largest living land carnivore in the world today with adult males growing up to 2.6 meters in length. The...
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36 Images
20 Videos
Ursus thibetanus
(Asiatic black bear)
This Asiatic bear has a similar appearance to its better-known American relative (the American black bear, Ursus americanus) with...
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4 Videos
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A marathon flier, an arctic tern's annual migration is a round trip of over 32,000 kilometers.
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Animal olympians
Faster than an olympic sprinter, the cheetah can maintain a speed of up to 87km/hr for 200-300 metres.
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The fastest swimming of all sharks, the short-fin mako is capable of attaining bursts of up to 35 km/hr.
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Executing breathtaking plunge-dives from considerable heights, gannets can dive as deep as 30m.
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With no need for a run-up, the long-jumping Verreaux's sifaka can travel as far as 10m in one leap.
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