Childrens Illustrated Animal Atlas

11 Snow geese Flocks of snow geese turn fields white when they land. These noisy birds live in cold areas, but fly south in larg ...

The Himalayan wolf is a rare type of gray wolf. Some are almost white—like snow on the Himalayas! Giant panda The giant panda li ...

Male prairie chickens inflate their orange neck sacs and raise their feathers to attract females. Prairie rattlesnake Though it ...

A Chinese peacock butterfly feeds on a spider lily plant. 68 This snake eats poisonous toads, absorbs the poisons, then releases ...

13 Washington, D.C. Black-tailed prairie dog These grass-eating rodents live in underground prairie-dog towns. They greet family ...

14 A tortoise snacks on a desert plant.Mohave desert tortoiseThis desert tortoise can live for up to 50 years. It digs a burrow ...

P A C IF IC O CE AN This snake eats poisonous toads, absorbs the poisons, then releases them later from its neck glands! N S W E ...

15 Mohave desert tortoiseThis desert tortoise can live for up to 50 years. It digs a burrow to avoid the desert heat, and it spe ...

70 Partridges run rather than fly away when threatened. Hamadryas baboon These monkeys live in troops of up to 1,000. They spend ...

Location Central America connects North and South America. Its tropical climate is ideal for plants and the animals that depend ...

N S W E Location Indian forests stretch from the Himalayan mountains south to the Indian Ocean. The weather here is hot or warm ...

17 HABITAT KEY Wetlands Mountains Tropical forests Mangroves Magnificent frigate bird These birds are skilled flyers, known for ...

18 Florida Everglades The Everglades, North America’s largest subtropical wetland, is really a big, slow-moving river. The area ...

Southeast Asian rain forest The Southeast Asian rain forests are some of the oldest on Earth, and they are home to hundreds of a ...

19 Purple gallinule This duck-sized bird has long toes that allow it to walk on lily pads without sinking. Green tree frog Depen ...

73 Location Lots of countries make up Southeast Asia, including many island nations. All are tropical, with a rainy monsoon seas ...

20 South America Earth’s fourth-largest continent lies mostly in the southern half of the world. It has tropical rain forests, d ...

74 Gobi desert The Gobi is Asia’s largest desert. It spans more than 460,000 sq miles (1.2 million sq km). Temperatures here can ...

21 URUGUAY GUYANA BRAZIL VENEZUELA BOLIVIA FALKLAND ISLANDS (UNITED KINGDOM) FRENCH GUIANA (FRANCE) A T L A N T I C O C E A N Pa ...

75 Yarkand gazelle Unlike other gazelles, the Yarkland doesn’t “bound.” If scared, it sprints away as fast as it can! Great bust ...