The gelada (Theropithecus gelada) is the only living member of the Theropithecus genus.

The biggest bat in the Americas, and the biggest carnivorous bat in the world.

Just how common is the huge, ridiculously long-lived Greenland Shark? New research has the beginnings of an answer.

The Robin Hoods of the natural world. I discovered them when I was a kid, burning through wildlife books from the library.

The coelacanth(s) (Latimeria chalumnae and Latimeria menadoensis) must be amongst the most famous fish in the entire world.

The large blue butterfly (Maculinea arion - or Phengaris arion, depending on who you ask) is both beauty and the beast.

Wild cattle don't come much more beautiful or impressive than the banteng (Bos javanicus), one of three (or is it two?) surviving cattle species that are as much a part of wild Asia as are the tiger or the orang-utan.

Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was one of the most surprising, dramatic and generally amazing animals to have shared the world with modern humans.

Plus, a bird that is next to impossible to see, but almost impossible not to hear.

This Wild Episode is all about what was once the rarest insect in the world - the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect