Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) This adaptable monkey is a notorious opportunist, and the troop at Uluwatu Temple is famous for snatching sunglasses, hats, and phones from visitors, then bartering them back for food. Resident year-round around Uluwatu (Pura Luhur Uluwatu) on Bali’s Bukit Peninsula, where they live alongside the clifftop temple. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map
Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) Named for its tail, which is often longer than its head and body combined, this adaptable monkey thrives in forest, mangrove, and urban edges across Southeast Asia. Singapore’s most common wild primate, found year-round in nature reserves like Bukit Timah and MacRitchie and along forest fringes. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map
📍 San Salvador Green Heron (Butorides virescens) A small, stocky heron that is one of the few birds known to use bait, dropping insects or twigs on the water to lure fish. Sharing the bank are two red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans), a widespread pond turtle named for the red stripe behind each eye. The green heron ranges widely across the Americas and is a common sight along wooded ponds and slow water year-round in warmer regions. ...
American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) North America’s smallest and most common bear, black bears are agile climbers and can run up to 35 mph despite their bulk. New Jersey has one of the densest black bear populations in the U.S., concentrated in the forested northwest; they are active year-round but most visible from spring through fall. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map
Monterey Cypress (Hesperocyparis macrocarpa) The Lone Cypress has clung to its granite perch on the 17-Mile Drive for well over 250 years, guy-wired against the wind since the 1940s and one of California’s most photographed trees. The species is native only to two tiny remnant groves on the Monterey Peninsula, making these wild stands rarer in habitat than they appear in the landscaped world. Wikipedia | Monterey cypress
Southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) The smallest marine mammal in North America, it has the densest fur of any animal — up to a million hairs per square inch — since it has no blubber to keep warm. Year-round resident along the central California coast; Monterey Bay is one of the most reliable places to spot them, often rafting up in kelp beds like this one. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map
Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) These look like Navajo-Churro, an old hardy breed descended from the Iberian Churra brought by Spanish colonists — prized for heat tolerance, a lean carcass, and rams that often grow two sets of horns. Flocks like this are increasingly used around San Diego for targeted grazing, munching dry grass to cut wildfire fuel on the region’s golden summer hillsides. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map
Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) One of the most widespread primates on Earth, the rhesus macaque is famous for its adaptability and gave its name to the Rh blood-group factor, first identified in this species. Common year-round in Hong Kong’s Kam Shan (“Monkey Hill”) Country Park, where large troops descend from the wooded slopes and are a familiar sight to hikers. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map
📍 Stuyvesant Town, New York City Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) — melanistic morph This is a melanistic Eastern gray squirrel, not a separate species. Melanism is an overproduction of the dark pigment melanin (the inverse of albinism), which turns the normally gray coat near-black; such animals are known informally as “black squirrels.” The two-toned appearance here — a black body with a tail retaining a warm rufous cast — reflects incomplete pigmentation of the tail rather than the animal’s age. ...
📍 Grand View Reef, Encinitas Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus) The brilliant orange California state marine fish, a damselfish whose adults are fiercely territorial nest-guarders on rocky reefs. Common year-round in southern California’s kelp forests, including the reefs off Encinitas; the species is fully protected in California waters. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map | eBird/map
📍 Panama City White-nosed Coati (Nasua narica) Females and young travel in noisy bands of up to 30, rooting through leaf litter for insects, fruit, and small vertebrates, while adult males forage alone for most of the year. Common year-round in the forests and parks around Panama City, where they’ve adapted well to the urban-wildland edge. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map
📍 Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador Feral Horse (Equus caballus) Descendants of horses brought by Spanish colonists, feral horses roam freely through Ecuador’s highlands, grazing unfenced hillsides and wandering among towns with little human interference. Feral and semi-feral horses are a common sight around Baños de Agua Santa year-round, navigating the steep Andean terrain with sure-footed ease. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map