An illustrated encyclopedia of wildlife
Explore the living Animal Kingdom
Wander through the world's wildlife — search hundreds of species, journey into their habitats, and uncover the facts that make each one extraordinary.
Featured species
Meet the wildlife
Rainforest
Bengal Tiger
Panthera tigris tigris
The largest of the big cats by weight, the Bengal tiger is a powerful ambush predator of dense forests, mangroves and grasslands. Each individual carries a stripe pattern as unique as a fingerprint.
Savannah
African Elephant
Loxodonta africana
The largest living land animal, the African elephant shapes entire ecosystems as it feeds, digs for water and clears paths through the bush. Herds are led by a matriarch and bound by deep social ties.
Tundra
Emperor Penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
The tallest and heaviest of all penguins, the emperor breeds through the brutal Antarctic winter, males huddling in vast colonies to shelter a single egg balanced on their feet.
Ocean
Blue Whale
Balaenoptera musculus
The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived, straining tonnes of tiny krill from the sea through baleen plates. Its calls are among the loudest sounds made by any creature.
Mountains
Snow Leopard
Panthera uncia
A ghost of the high mountains, the snow leopard is superbly adapted to cold, thin air, with a thick coat and a long tail for balance on steep, rocky slopes.
Rainforest
Scarlet Macaw
Ara macao
One of the most striking birds of the Americas, the scarlet macaw is a large, brilliantly coloured parrot that mates for life and travels the rainforest canopy in noisy flocks.
The biomes
Journey through the habitats
Every animal belongs to a world of its own. Step into the ecosystems that shape the wildlife within them.
Warm and humid year-round
Rainforest
Dense, layered forests holding more species than any other habitat on Earth, from the canopy giants to the shadowed forest floor.
Hot with distinct wet and dry seasons
Savannah
Vast open grasslands dotted with acacia trees, home to the great herds and the predators that follow them.
Cold depths to warm sunlit shallows
Ocean
The planet's largest habitat, from coral reefs teeming with life to the vast open blue where the greatest animals roam.
Bitterly cold, frozen much of the year
Tundra & Polar
Treeless frozen plains and polar ice where only the hardiest, best-insulated animals endure the long winters.
Warm, waterlogged and rich
Wetlands
Swamps, marshes and mangroves where land meets water, cradling amphibians, birds and reptiles in dense abundance.
Cool, thin air, steep and rugged
Mountains
High, rocky slopes and misty bamboo forests where specialised climbers and grazers make a home above the clouds.
Why it matters
Every species tells a story worth protecting
From the least concern to the critically endangered, every profile in the atlas carries a conservation status — a quiet reminder of how fragile the animal kingdom can be, and how much is still worth fighting for.
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