Going through to find dead images, I noticed some startling omissions. Mostly on my part, though I'm surprised nobody's posted any of these first three:
I'm going to start with the giant salamanders. Like alligators and
paddlefish (scroll to bottom of post), there's one genus found in eastern North America and one in East Asia. Now the Asian genus also has a species found in Japan, but alligator bones have been found in Japan and maybe we'll find paddlefish pones there too.
Any rate, in North America we have giant aquatic salamanders called "hellbenders." There's a lot of them near where sunny lives.
The Chinese giant salamanders are critically endangered in the wild because Chinese people like eating them, which means there's a lot of people breeding them to eat and/or conserve them, which means, paradoxically, it's easier to find good pictures of them than of the Japanese giant salamander.
In the US we also have neotenous salamanders called mudpuppies, which look a bit like the Mexican axolotl but are less fun to say, less commonly available as pets, and
don't come in pink. Since I couldn't find a good picture on a website I trust to remain up I'm uploading a picture I found and scaled. I'd link the original source but cannot find it.
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Next up are sifakas, which are neat because unlike so-called flying lemurs (which I posted
here as a "colugo," an alternative name), these are lemurs that can actually glide due to loose skin on their limbs and torso. The most famous is Zobomafoo, who was portrayed by a
Coquerel's sifaka (and I've often seen misidentified as a ring-tailed lemur despite his lack of a ring tale), but here is a diademed sifaka:
Here is a golden-crowned sifaka:
And here is a silky sifaka, one of the rarest primates in the world, but still known to locals as "lunch."