North America | San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants

Wild bison graze in a large green field in Yosemite

Map of the world with North America highlighted.

A giraffe dines on some thorny acacia leaves in Africa

Agave

American kestrel

American Kestrel

American pitcher plants

American Pitcher Plant

Amazonian leafcutter ants

Armadillo on the prairie

Gray axolotl floating in an aquarium.

Bald Eagle, Alaska

Flying fox

Native California bee

Shining Leaf Chafer Beetle

Bird's-nest fern

Bird's-nest Fern

Leopard Lacewing (Cethosia Cyane) feeding on Blue Porterweed with purple flowers.

Blue Porterweed

Emerald tree boa

Bonsai maple at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Boojum tree

Butterfly sitting on a bright pink bromeliad flower

Alaskan brown bear

Burrowing owl popped out of its burrow.

Monarch butterfly resting on green leaf

Butterfly, Moth, and Skipper

Cacao pods growing on a tree.

Cochal cactus

California Condor with radio tracking devices on its wings

California Condor

A group of California fan palms against a blue sky

California Fan Palm

California Juniper berries.

California Juniper

Yellow-rumped warbler with a bee in its beak sitting on a cattail in B.C. Canada

Coati climbing down a rock boulder.

A grouping of cedars on a rocky hillside.

East African Crowned Crane

A Chinese dwarf crocodile floating half-submerged in water

Cycad photo showing two cones.

During the hottest part of summer, desert tortoises descend into deep burrows for a period of estivation

Desert Tortoise

Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) Male

Dragonfly and Damselfly

Pitaya fruit growing on plants

Dragonfruit (Pitahaya, Pitaya)

Dudleya

Two dung beetles rolling a ball of dung on gravel

Medusa's Head Euphorbia

Many figs are shown hanging on a ficus tree.

four flamingos stretch their necks up to the sky

California flannelbush

Red-legged kassina frog

Gila monster crawling along rocky brown dirt

Closeup of a male Trandcaspian urial displaying his large, curved horns

Golden eagle with wings spread and talons extended as it goes in for a landing

A red hibiscus flower.

A dense growth of horsetail reed

Costa Rican hummingbird

Grand Cayman Blue Iguana

Jacana walking on a lily pad.

A jaguar peers out from under a tree branch

A kingfisher preening its extended wing

California kingsnake

Kinkajou climbing down leaves, sticking its tongue out.

Ladybug crawling down a blade of grass

Lavender in a field.

Leopard shark swimming in a blue tank

Green-headed tree agama lizard

Close up of a lynx face as it looks slightly to the left with its eyes

Lynx and Bobcat

Hyacinth Macaws

Maidenhair fern growing from a wet, rocky cliffside.

Maidenhair Fern

A pair of manatees floating in murky turquoise Florida bayou water

The red colors of a maple tree's leaves.

Kangaroo joey peeks out of its mother's much as mother lounges on grass

Two honeybees visiting a matilija poppy

Monarch butterfly drinking nectar from milkweed flowers.

A monarch butterfly rests on a pink flower and spreads its wings.

Monarch Butterfly

Closeup of a white-headed langur holding onto a branch while it holds a green leaf in its mouth

Diplacus aurantiacus, Sierra monkeyflower

mountain lion licking lips

Mountain Lion (Puma, Cougar)

Acorns growing on an oak tree

Closeup of an ocelot's face as it looks right

A hawk perches on an ocotillo in the desert.

Opposum walking on green grass that is covered with fallen Autumn leaves.

The white flower on an orchid.

Asian short-clawed otters on log

Great horned owl in flight.

Close up of a fan palm frond.

African grey parrot

The open bloom of a purple and white Passion Vine.

A pair of peccaries.

Great White pelican

Pink trumpet tree blooms.

Pink Trumpet Tree

Polar bear in Arctic

Ponytail palm trees

porcupine

Black-tailed Prairie Dog at Sunset

Prickly pear cactus with salmon-colored blooms

Prickly Pear Cactus

pronghorn

Pumpkin growing from its vine.

A pair of pumpkinseed sunfish under water.

Pumpkinseed Sunfish

Raccoon wading into water

Western diamondback rattlesnake on rust red stone

Red-tailed hawk landing

Red-tailed Hawk

Reindeer in Tromso region, Northern Norway

Reindeer (Caribou)

Ringtail crouching.

Purple flowers on a sage.

A woodpecker peeks out from a hole it has made in a large saguaro cactus.

Fire salamander

Salamander and Newt

Sea lavender with small butterfly.

Sea lions sunning on sandstone rocks

oncilla

Yellow bush viper

orb weaver spider

Peruvian fire stick insect on a leafy branch

Saddlebill stork

Striped skunk walking across green grass.

A common fly trapped by a sundew

A tight cluster of basil leaves.

A young tamandua gazes at the camera with a wet nose.

Tamandua or Lesser Anteater

South American tapir

Greenbottle blue tarantula

Turtle with butterflies, Amazon

Turtle and Tortoise

A large covering of venus flytraps

Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus)

A Western Sword fern.

Western Sword Fern

Close-up of a tiny ant crawling on a wild buckwheat's flowers.

Cape Buffalo

Gray wolves Canis lupus

Oak Fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman

The buds on a Wooly Blue Curl

Woolly Blue Curls

Tecoma stans blooms

Joshua trees in the Nevada desert.