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406 452
10,117



408 453


Tyrannosaurus
412 456





TIGER Panthera tigris 579

416 460

420 463

421 467 300kg

10m 1.4- 2.8m (4- 9 ft

423 469

424 472

425 472










428 473





6000


430 477

438 482

LIZARDS CHISEL-TEETH LIZARDS

380 381


1m
AUSTRALIAN WATER DRAGON 3 ft
Physignathus lesueurii

27


4,560
40 cm 8,000

16 in

1m
VARIABLE GARDEN LIZARD 3 ft
Calotes versicolor


1
ASIAN WATER DRAGON
Physignathus cocincinus

40 cm

16 in NORTH AFRICAN MASTIGURA
Uromastyx acanthinura




26 cm BOULENGERS PRICKLENAPE
10 in Acanthosaura crucigera

1.5cm

10

30cm


50 cm
CENTRAL BEARDED DRAGON 20 in
Pogona vitticeps

CHAMELEONS


8 cm

3 in

20 cm
8 in

70 cm GREEN-STRIPED TREE DRAGON
BEARDED PYGMY-CHAMELEON PARSONS CHAMELEON 28 in Japalura splendida
Rieppeleon brevicaudatus Calumma parsonii


30 cm
12 in

40 cm

30 cm
12 in 16 in
RANUNCULALES
YELLOW HORNED POPPY
Glaucium flavum
3m
152 153

MEDITERRANEAN
CHAMELEON JACKSONS CHAMELEON 10 ft

Chamaeleo chamaeleon Chamaeleo jacksonii RAINBOW LIZARD

Agama agama

60 cm
23 in
90 cm

90 cm
51 cm 56 cm 35 in 25 cm 90 cm 36 in
20 in 22 in FRILLED LIZARD 10 in
36 in

Chlamydosaurus kingii

PANTHER CHAMELEON
GIANT SPINY CHAMELEON
Furcifer verrucosus
Furcifer pardalis

VEILED CHAMELEON
Chamaeleo calyptratus
DESERT AGAMA GREATER CELANDINE
Trapelus mutabilis
BARBERRY Chelidonium majus

Berberis vulgaris
1.2 m

30 cm 4 ft

12 in






30 cm BLEEDING HEART
12 in Dicentra spectabilis


OCEANIC DOLPHINS
YELLOW CORYDALIS


Corydalis lutea
616 617
1.93.9 m


613 ft

2.12.6 m

1.61.8 m
78 ft

56 ft ROUGH-TOOTHED DOLPHIN

WHITE-BEAKED DOLPHIN BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN
Steno bredanensis
HOURGLASS DOLPHIN
Lagenorhynchus cruciger
Lagenorhynchus albirostris 2.52.8 m

Tursiops truncatus


89 ft

1.92.5 m
68 ft


1.72.3 m
CHOCOLATE VINE
45 cm
57 ft 1.82.9 m SACRED BAMBOO Akebia quinata BISHOPS HAT 18 in

69 ft Nandina domestica Epimedium davidii

1.62.1 m
57 ft 30 cm
2m 12 in CALIFORNIA POPPY WELSH POPPY
Eschscholzia californica Meconopsis cambrica
1.82.5 m
6 ft

ATLANTIC WHITE-SIDED DOLPHIN DUSKY DOLPHIN
Lagenorhynchus acutus Lagenorhynchus obscurus STRIPED DOLPHIN 68 ft
SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALE DOLPHIN
ATLANTIC SPOTTED DOLPHIN
Stenella coeruleoalba Lissodelphis peronii

Stenella frontalis




4.36 m
1420 ft

6m
22.2 m 20 ft
67 ft 2.12.7 m
78 ft

RISSOS DOLPHIN 30 cm
Grampus griseus FALSE KILLER WHALE 12 in
2.63.8 m Pseudorca crassidens 10 m


812 ft 50 cm 33 ft

20 in
PEALES DOLPHIN MELON-HEADED WHALE
Lagenorhynchus australis
Peponocephala electra

22.6 m
2.12.6 m
Cephalorhyncus
1.31.7 m
68 ft

78 ft
COMMON FUMITORY
45 ft MOONSEED Fumaria officinalis
Menispermum canadense



COMMERSONS DOLPHIN FRASERS DOLPHIN

Cephalorhynchus commersonii PYGMY KILLER WHALE

Lagenodelphis hosei Feresa attenuata





4m
13 ft MATILIJA POPPY
Romneya coulteri
1.21.5 m
45 ft


5.510 m
1833 ft 75 cm
30 in
CAROLINA SNAILSEED

Cocculus carolinus
1.31.8 m 1.72.4 m

HECTORS DOLPHIN TUCUXI 46 ft SHORT-BEAKED COMMON DOLPHIN 57 ft KILLER WHALE 3.57 m
1123 ft 20 cm 60 cm
Cephalorhynchus hectori Sotalia fluviatilis Delphinus delphis
Orcinus orca LONG-FINNED PILOT WHALE 8 in 24 in
Globicephala melas








40 cm/16 in 10 m/33 ft

RIVER AND ESTUARINE DOLPHINS INDUS RIVER DOLPHIN Platanista minor

INDIAN RIVER DOLPHINS
JAPANESE



STAUNTON VINE OPIUM POPPY
1.31.7 m
Stauntonia hexaphylla Papaver somniferum
45 ft COMMON POPPY

LEONTICE MAY APPLE CLIMBING CORYDALIS Papaver rhoeas


Leontice leontopetalum Podophyllum peltatum Ceratocapnos claviculata

FRANCISCANA SICKLEFRUIT HYPECOUM
Pontoporia blainvillei Hypecoum imberbe

AMAZON RIVER DOLPHIN 50 cm 2m

20 in 6 ft

Inia geoffrensis

1.82.5 m 1.52.5 m
68 ft 58 ft






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DNA

2000
24






DNA

34
32
4000

1766

p.34 35

1837

10

1859

1879

DNA

95

DNA

1000

180

800

600

400


200

100
550
5.5 500
5 400
4 300
3 200
2 100
1 0


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YELLOW HORNED POPPY
3m Glaucium flavum
152 153

10 ft

90 cm
90 cm 36 in
36 in

GREATER CELANDINE
BARBERRY Chelidonium majus
Berberis vulgaris
1.2 m
30 cm 4 ft
12 in






30 cm BLEEDING HEART
12 in Dicentra spectabilis


YELLOW CORYDALIS


Corydalis lutea

CHOCOLATE VINE
45 cm
SACRED BAMBOO Akebia quinata BISHOPS HAT 18 in
Nandina domestica Epimedium davidii
30 cm
2m 12 in CALIFORNIA POPPY WELSH POPPY
6 ft Eschscholzia californica Meconopsis cambrica




6m
20 ft

30 cm
12 in
10 m
50 cm 33 ft
20 in

COMMON FUMITORY
MOONSEED Fumaria officinalis
Menispermum canadense





4m
13 ft MATILIJA POPPY
Romneya coulteri


75 cm
30 in
CAROLINA SNAILSEED
Cocculus carolinus

20 cm 60 cm
8 in 24 in


40 cm/16 in 10 m/33 ft



JAPANESE
STAUNTON VINE OPIUM POPPY
Stauntonia hexaphylla COMMON POPPY Papaver somniferum
LEONTICE MAY APPLE CLIMBING CORYDALIS Papaver rhoeas
Leontice leontopetalum Podophyllum peltatum Ceratocapnos claviculata
SICKLEFRUIT HYPECOUM
Hypecoum imberbe
50 cm 2m

20 in 6 ft


286 287
33.5 cm 68 mm 810 mm 69 mm
1 1 in in in in
11.2 cm 2.43.4 cm 56 cm

in 11 in 22 in
3 mm
in

ANT-LIKE BEETLE
THICK-LEGGED FLOWER BEETLE BLACK OIL BEETLE EYED LADYBIRD SEVEN-SPOT LADYBIRD
Anthicus floralis Oedemera nobilis Meloe proscarabaeus SCARLET LILY BEETLE Anatis ocellata Coccinella septempunctata

Lilioceris lilii

1.82.2 cm 1.41.6 cm
in in

RED-SPOTTED LONGHORN 45 mm 45 mm 35 mm
BEETLE in in in
Batocera rufomaculata




JEWELLED FROG BEETLE
Sagra buqueti
CARDINAL BEETLE
GIBBIFER CALIFORNICUS Pyrochroa coccinea
BROADBEAN WEEVIL LARCH LADYBIRD
Bruchus rufimanus Aphidecta obliterata
TWENTY-TWO SPOT LADYBIRD

Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata




PHOSPHORUS JANSONI


22.4 cm
22.6 cm 1 in CHURCHYARD BEETLE 1.82 cm
1 in Blaps mucronata in

2.83.6 cm

1 1 in

4.25.5 cm
1 2 in 0.38.6 cm
3 in
33.5 cm 11.3 cm
11 in in
BAPTISIA WEEVIL
Trichapion rostrum

ONYMACRIS CANDIDIPENNIS

Baptisia



WALLACES LONGHORN

CRATOSOMUS RODDAMI

BEETLE
Cyriopalus wallacei
GIRAFFE-NECKED WEEVIL

Trachelophorus giraffa




2.6 cm
1 in
3.24.6 cm

11 in

812 mm
in BLACK VINE WEEVIL
EUPHOLUS LINNEI Otiorhynchus sulcatus
NEPTUNIDES POLYCHROUS DICRONORHINA DERBYANA






458

459
36 cm 20 cm 47 cm 30 cm 38 cm 40 cm
14 in 8 in 18 in 12 in 15 in 16 in

TURQUOISE PARROT EASTERN ROSELLA BLUE-FRONTED PARROT ST VINCENT PARROT
Neophema pulchella Platycercus eximius 85 cm Amazona aestiva Amazona guildingii
Platycercus
34 in Amazona





BLUE-AND-YELLOW MACAW
Ara ararauna



1214 cm
RED-FAN PARROT ROSE-RINGED PARAKEET MASKED SHINING PARROT 45 in
Deroptyus accipitrinus Psittacula krameri Prosopeia personata





7989 cm 2428 cm

3135 in 911 in


3842 cm 4047 cm
1516 in 1618 in
5560 cm
2223 in

BLUE-HEADED PARROT PACIFIC PARROTLET
Pionus menstruus Forpus coelestis

40 cm
16 in Amazona

SCARLET MACAW
33 cm RED-FRONTED MACAW Ara macao
13 in
Ara rubrogenys

SUPERB PARROT

Polytelis swainsonii 30 cm
12 in
PRINCESS PARROT

Polytelis alexandrae





1m
JANDAYA PARAKEET
3 ft Aratinga jandaya

Aratinga

HYACINTH MACAW 2025 cm
Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus 810 in







Aratinga

25 cm
10 in
15 cm 1718 cm
6 in 67 in

4446 cm 29 cm
1718 in 11 in

MAROON-BELLIED PARAKEET

3537 cm
1414 in Pyrrhura frontalis
YELLOW-COLLARED LOVEBIRD ROSY-FACED LOVEBIRD YELLOW-CHEVRONED MONK PARAKEET
GREY PARROT Agapornis personatus Agapornis roseicollis PARAKEET Myiopsitta monachus
Psittacus erithacus BURROWING PARAKEET Brotogeris chiriri
BROWN-NECKED PARROT Cyanoliseus patagonus Pyrrhura
Poicephalus robustus Aratinga



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EUOPLOCEPHALUS

m23ft

86-87 EUOPLOCEPHALUS Euoplocephalus

126-127 Nymphaea alba

WHITE WATER LILY

3 138-139 MANY-BULBED ORCHID Dinema polybulbon

4 160-161 CACTUS Astrophytum ornatum

126 127

5 192-193 HOOPED PITCHER PLANT Sarracenia minor

6

30

216-217 Amanita muscaria

FLY AGARIC

15

MEXICAN RED-KNEED

266-267 Brachypelma smithi

TARANTULA


WHITE WATER LILY Nymphaea alba
50

1.5

JUNGLE NYMPH STICK

10-30cm4 -12 in

278-279

Heteropteryx dilatata

INSECT

216 217

310-311 Octopus vulgaris

COMMON OCTOPUS

BLUE-SPOTTED RIBBONTAIL
10 328-329 RAY Taeniura lymma

FLY AGARIC Amanita muscaria

11

342-343

Pterois volitans

RED LIONFISH

12

356-357 CANE TOAD Rhinella marina 6-15cm2-6in

13 376-377 ALDABRA GIANT TORTOISE Aldabrachelys gigantea 278

JUNGLE NYMPH STICK INSECT Heteropteryx dilatata

279

14

382-383 PANTHER CHAMELEON Furcifer pardalis

15.5cm6 in

15

392-393 Boa constrictor

COMMON BOA

150

16

402-403 Crocodylus rhombifer

CUBAN CROCODILE

17 418-419 KING PENGUIN Antenodytes patagonicus 376

ALDABRA GIANT TORTOISE Aldabrachelys gigantea

100
377

300kg
90

18

434-435 Gyps rueppellii

RPPELL'S VULTURE

1.2 m4 ft

19

442-443 GREY CROWNED CRANE Balearica regulorum

20

511-512 RED KANGAROO Macropus rufus

21 518-519 SIX-BANDED ARMADILLO Euphractus sexcinctus

GREY CROWNED CRANE Balearica regulorum 443

22

530-531 Hystrix cristata

CRESTED PORCUPINE

1.1 m3 ft

23

546-547 Mandrillus sphinx

MANDRILL

24

552-553

LYLE'S FLYING FOX Pteropus lylei

25

568-569

Ursus maritimus

POLAR BEAR

26

578-579 Panthera tigris

568 569

TIGER
POLAR BEAR Ursus maritimus

27

584-585 STRIPED HYENA Hyaena hyaena

1.8- 2.8m6 -9ft

28 590-591 Ceratotherium simum

WHITE RHINOCEROS

800kg

29
40km

610-611 Camelus bactrianus

25,000

BACTRIAN CAMEL

km