American alligators are large aquatic reptiles with strong jaws, armor-like bodies and muscular tails.

Chinchillas are small rodents native to South America who live in large colonies.

Coyotes deserve lives free from persecution.

Deer are our wild neighbors, forced by habitat loss into the spaces where humans now live.

Ferrets are playful, curious carnivores who have become popular pets.

While folktales portray them as sly tricksters, red foxes deserve our respect for their intelligence and adaptability.

Mink are semi-aquatic mammals similar in appearance to weasels and ferrets.

These sleek, beautiful animals live in coastal waters, hunting for fish in the sea and returning to land to give birth to their young.

Sleek, powerful and endlessly fascinating, sharks have roamed the oceans for millions of years.

Turtles have been roaming the Earth for millions of years—but now dozens of these “slow and steady” species are racing toward extinction.