Vector generated image of Cape porcupine(Hystrix africaeaustralis):Habitat: Porcupines are found in woodland, savannah and forest biomes as well as rocky outcrops. Behaviour: They often take shelter in aardvark (Antbear) burrows which they modify to make more comfortable. The porcupine is...

Painting of Chilean pudu ( Pudu pudu):native to South America,world's second smallest deer,eats grass, leaves, and fallen fruit.

Painting of Paca (Agouti paca), Distribution Pacas are found in southern and eastern Mexico to southern Brazil, but not Uruguay. Pacas are not found west of the Andes in Ecuador and Peru. Habitat Pacas live in rainforest, cloud forest, and some slightly more...

Painting of Black duiker (Cephalophus niger):Found throughout lower West Africa, in Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Populations once found in the Kalakpa and Shai Hill reserves in central and southeastern Ghana have disappeared.Found on the edges of...

Painting of Thick-spined porcupine (Hystrix crassispinis):North Borneo, especially Kalimantan.Forests and cultivated areas.Nocturnal; terrestrial.Fallen fruits and other vegetable material.Lower Risk/Near Threatened.

Painting of Sumatran porcupine (Hystrix sumatrae):Found in Sumatra.Takes refuge in ground caves, rock crevasses, and under fallen trees; generally forests, abandoned and active plantations, and in rugged rocky areas.Poor climber.An assortment of vegetation.Not threatened.

Painting of Indonesian porcupine (Hystrix pumila):Palawan, Busuanga, and Balabac Islands (Philippines).Lowland secondary and primary forests, abandoned and active plantations, and rugged areas.Takes refuge in ground caves, rock crevasses, and under fallen trees; frequently two, seldom one or...

Painting of Male blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola):Blue Duiker live mainly in rainforests, where they eat fruit, flowers and leaves, which have fallen from the canopy as well as eggs, and insects. It is, in turn, the prey of the ferocious Crowned Eagle. Blue Duiker are nocturnal and solitary or...

Painting of Red-flanked duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus):is a tiny antelope found in western and central Africa .The duiker feeds on leaves, fallen fruits, seeds, flowers, and sometimes small birds or other small animals

Painting of Central American tapir (Tapirus bairdii):Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas in southern Mexico; through all nations of Central America, except El Salvador where it is exterminated. South along Pacific coastal forests and swamps at least to mid elevations of western Andes, in Colombia to...

Painting of Water chevrotain (Hyemoschus aquaticus):Africa’s single chevrotain species, it is endemic to lowland tropical forest zones of eastern Central Africa.The current range includes scattered regions of east Sierra Leone, Liberia, west Côte d’Ivoire, and south Ghana.Inhabit dense...

Painting of Lesser Malay mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus):Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia), Range Brunei Darussalam,Cambodia, southwestern China (Yunan province), Indonesia,Borneo, Laos, People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar,Singapore, and Thailand.Primary and secondary lowland forests....

Painting of Greater Malay mouse deer (Tragulus napu):Southern Thailand and Indochina, Malay Peninsula, and several nearby islands, Sumatra, Borneo, North and South Natuna island, Balabac Island, Brunei Darussalem, Cambodia, Indonesia,Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam.In dense...

Painting of Reeve’s muntjac or Barking deer (Muntiacus reevesi):Generally, eastern Asia; specifically, natural range is from southern to eastern (mainland) China (from Yunnan to Fujian) and extends north through Palaearctic China and Taiwan; introduced in Great Britain and the western region of...

Painting of American black bear (Ursus americanus). HABITAT Commonly woods with thick undergrowth, wetland areas, meadows, tundra particularly in Labrador, and sometimes disturbed sites near human activity. BEHAVIOR :Spend most of the day and night resting in a clump of leaves on the ground,...

Painting of Mhorr gazelle (Gazella dama mhorr). The Dama Gazelle (Nanger dama; formerly Gazella dama), also known as the Addra Gazelle, is a species of gazelle. It lives in Africa in the Sahara desert and migrates south in search of food during the dry season. After the rains return...

Painting of Malagasy giant rat (Hypogeomys antimena) DISTRIBUTION West coast of Madagascar. HABITAT Found only in the sandy forests of western coastal Madagascar. They construct long, deep burrows in the sandy soil.Eat mainly fallen fruit.

Painting of South African porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis), DISTRIBUTION Despite its name, only found in sub-Saharan Africa, excluding the coastal desert of the southwest: basically the southern half of Africa HABITAT Found from sea level to 6,560 ft (2,000 m) above sea level in most areas...

Painting of North African porcupine (Hystrix cristata), DISTRIBUTION Italy, Albania, Sicily, and northern Greece (European populations possibly introduced by humans) and along the editerranean coast of Africa to northern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. HABITAT Highly adaptable,...

Painting of African brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus), DISTRIBUTION Only in Africa in the countries of Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and southern Sudan. HABITAT:Spend days hidden in burrows, caves, crevices, or fallen trees...

Painting of Common porcupine (Hystrix brachyura), DISTRIBUTION Nepal to southeastern China and Malay Peninsula, Hainan, Sumatra, Kalimantan (in Borneo). HABITAT Forests, lowlands, hills, cultivated areas.Feed on fallen fruits including oil palm, roots, and stems.Listed Vulnerable.

Painting of Agouti (Dasyprocta sp.), Distribution Agoutis range from southern Mexico to northern Argentina and Paraguay. Habitat Agoutis are associated with primary and secondary forest and scrub. They require some dense vegetation for cover, but often...

Painting of Black-breasted leaf turtle (Geoemyda spengleri) , Range includes Hainan Island and two other provinces of southern China, and Vietnam. (Although several sources include Sumatra, Borneo and Philippines in the spengleri range, this is probably based on mis-identified juveniles of other...

Painting of Central American river turtle (Dermatemys mawii), Distribution Atlantic lowlands from southern Veracruz in Mexico through the southern Yucatán Peninsula, northern Guatemala, and Belize. Habitat Permanent water in rivers and large freshwater lakes, occasionally entering brackish...

Painting of South American yellow-footed tortoise (Geochelone denticulata), DISTRIBUTION Atlantic versant of northern South America, including the Amazon River basin; southern populations may be disjunct.HABITAT Tropical evergreen and deciduous forests.FEEDING & DIET This species is mostly...